Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

Data=Ministry of Food and Drug Safety People who cooked and ate pufferfish themselves and showed symptoms of food poisoning caused by pufferfish poison were transferred to the hospital. According to ...

Pufferfish are famous for containing one of the most potent natural toxins known: tetrodotoxin. But what would happen if a massive whale swallowed a poisonous pufferfish? This video dives into the ...

Transcorneal electrical stimulation (TES) has become an effective strategy to modulate retinal neural activities and partially restore visual function in ophthalmic diseases. However, the exact ...

We have the 4-letter answer for NOUN: "any of various very poisonous puffer fishes (family Tetraodontidae) that contain tetrodotoxin and that are used as food in Japan after the toxin-containing parts ...

Since none of the females died during mating, it seems they may have some level of resistance to tetrodotoxin. A variety of animals accumulate this bacterial toxin in their bodies, including mollusks, ...

Piercing their partners’ aortas with their beaks, the male octopuses injected a dose of venom into the female octopuses’ bloodstreams. Though the venom, tetrodotoxin, paralyzes prey until they are ...

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.

These Male Octopuses Use Venom to Subdue Female Mates—and Avoid Being Eaten After Sex Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them ...

Tetrodotoxin is capable of paralyzing prey, and in laboratory mating experiments the researchers observed that male blue-lined octopuses use a bite to inject tetrodotoxin-laden saliva into their ...

During mating, some male octopuses inject females with their potent venom to paralyse them – and avoid being eaten by their mates. Typically, animals use venom to kill prey or defend themselves ...

This Japanese delicacy contains tetrodotoxin, a poison that is 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide. It paralyses the muscles while the victim remains fully conscious but is unable to breathe and ...