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A frilled pygmy octopus hitched a ride on a diver’s fin in Port Phillip Bay, off the coast of Portsea, Victoria, with the encounter marking only the second time the species has been observed in ...

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But while other octopus species have evolved longer mating arms that allow them to maintain a safe distance during copulation and avoid this fate, blue-lined octopuses have a comparatively short ...

The male octopus of this species precisely injects a dose of its deadly tetrodotoxin venom into the females to immobilise them during copulation, say researchers at the University of Queensland.

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