Researchers in Australia recently discovered that female octopuses throw debris with a strengthened force at targets when they feel harassed. The researchers observed these females throw silt, algae ...

The love life of a male blue-lined octopus is tough. Like praying mantises and widow spiders, a female blue-lined octopus will often kill and eat the male after mating. It's just a circle of life for ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Nothing kills romance quite like the threat of cannibalism. The Seattle Aquarium reportedly nixed its annual Valentine's Day tradition, a public mating session of octopuses, after fears that one ...

To celebrate Valentine's Day, officials at the Seattle Aquarium thought it would be cool to allow visitors to watch a live mating between two octopi. The annual octopus mating event is open to the ...