This Octopus Employed a Secret Weapon to Startle a Curious Husky
The coconut octopus in this video from furbabiesplus looks like a walking squirt gun. A curious Husky trying to take a closer ...
This Octopus Squeezed into a Mysterious Hole in the Beach. But Why?!
Forget about a hole in the bottom of the sea, this octopus has found a hole in the beach. All octopuses have gills, so they ...
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Male octopus injects female with venom during sex to avoid being eaten
Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from one of nature’s most potent venoms ...
Octopus hitches a ride on one of the ocean’s fastest sharks in stunning encounter. Video
In a rare and remarkable sight, a Maori octopus was spotted clinging to the back of a shortfin mako shark—one of the fastest ...
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Sea geniuses: all the ways that octopuses are wildly intelligent
"These tentacles carry a potent and painful venom — the common blanket octopus is immune but can inflict their effects on unwitting predators and prey." Scientists have been curious about the ...
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These Male Octopuses Use Venom to Subdue Female Mates—and Avoid Being Eaten After Sex
When they're alarmed, blue-lined octopuses display iridescent blue rings on their arms to ward off approaching predators. Totti via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Animals have evolved many ...
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To Avoid Becoming a Meal, These Male Octopuses Sedate Their Mates
The venom of the male blue-lined octopus is made for its predators, its prey, and, apparently, its mating partners. That’s what researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia found after ...
Brave Octopus Filmed Hitchhiking on a 10-Foot Shark
Maori octopuses are the largest octopuses in the Southern Hemisphere, reaching about 1 meter (3.28 feet) in length. Shortfin mako sharks are known for being one of the fastest fish in the world, with ...