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 ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory system and can even couple at arm's length without actually seeing each other.

The specialized arm that male octopuses use for mating is also a sensory organ that can detect the ovarian hormone progesterone, according to new experiments conducted by Pablo Villar and colleagues.

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 ...

Sex might seem an intimate act, but scientists have shed fresh light on how octopuses manage it at arm’s length. Male octopuses use a specialised arm called the hectocotylus to place a package of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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