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 ...

During 18 dives to the depths of Monterey Canyon, California, the researchers never saw the female leave her eggs or eat anything ... in the otherwise flat and featureless area. Finally, why do ...

How do they do it? Octopus disguise has three main elements ... Because octopuses have no bones, predators can eat the whole animal. As Mark Norman, a world expert on living cephalopods at ...

Sexual cannibalism is common in cephalopods such as octopuses, as well as in other animals such as spiders and mantises, he said. Chung added that eating their partner helps female octopuses to ...

Chef Mark Dronjak, who teaches classes at the market's seafood school, says tenderising is the key to preparing octopus and to do that he recommends boiling the whole cleaned tentacles and head ...