Meet The Deep-Sea Octopus That Guarded Her Eggs For 4.5 Years — Without Eating Once

This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

What happens when an octopus becomes a mother and why does she stop eating?

Octopus mothers undertake an intense maternal journey. After laying thousands of eggs, they stop eating and dedicate themselves to guarding their young. This sacrifice is hormonally controlled by the ...
New York Post

Highly venomous male octopuses poison females before sex — to avoid being eaten after mating, scientists say

It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to ...
AOL

This male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, according to a new study. The males have evolved to use a venom called ...
AOL

Introducing: the Rare Blanket Octopus

Blanket Octopus female diving. Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world's oddest couples, with the female weighing 40,000 times more than the male.© Sam Robertshaw/Shutterstock.com This ...
Yahoo

Beloved SoCal octopus will spend her final days caring for eggs that will never hatch

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A beloved octopus is entering the last stage of her life in Long Beach, and will spend the remainder of her days caring for eggs ...
The State

Dying octopus tends to thousands of eggs that will never hatch at CA aquarium

An octopus named Ghost will tend to her eggs that will never hatch, a California aquarium said. Screengrab from @Aquariumpacific on Instagram. A dying octopus will devote the rest of her life to ...