Interview with Wen-Sung Chung, who studies cephalopod neurobiology, ecology and diversity at the University of Queensland.

Nature - The paralysing toxin deployed by the male blue-lined octopus might help to protect him from being eaten.

Chun et al. show that in the blue-lined octopus Hapalochlaena fasciata males envenomate females during copulation, most likely as a defense against being cannibalized.