Among animals, few life cycles are as dramatic as that of the octopus. After a single reproductive event, many females enter a rapid decline that ends with them literally tearing at their own bodies, ...

Researchers studying the Japanese pygmy octopus report that males carefully protect a specialized mating arm, behavior ...

The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...

The researchers primarily studied California two-spot octopuses. Jerry Kirkhart via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 Octopus sex seems like a very dignified affair. A male octopus hands his sperm to ...

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