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When octopuses mate, the male keeps the female quite literally at arm’s length. For the act, the male has a special arm called a hectocotylus, which it uses to deposit a sack of sperm inside the ...

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 ...

A team of neurologists, environmentalists and bioengineers at the University of Queensland, in Australia, has found that male blue-lined octopuses paralyze females prior to mating to avoid being eaten ...