Octopuses have gotten a reputation for being cunning camouflagers and intelligent creatures. But some are known for a more ominous reason: They're deadly. One group — the blue-ringed octopus (genus ...

An Australian teenager had a lucky escape after being bitten by one of the world's most toxic animals, a blue-ringed octopus, after accidentally picking up the deadly cephalopod hiding in a shell. But ...

An Australian teen nearly died when he was bitten by a poisonous blue-ringed octopus hiding in a shell he scooped out of the ocean to show his niece. Jacob Eggington, 18, was swimming and looking for ...

A Geelong mother dismissed her eight-year-old when he shouted he’d found a blue-ringed octopus at Eastern Beach – until she ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze venom effects, first aid, and survival actions after a blue-ringed octopus ...

Richard Blyth was fishing by the North Shore pier this week when he noticed the electric blue spots of the poisonous octopus. “I was a bit under the size of a tennis ball,” he said. Blue-ringed ...

A blue-ringed octopus was spotted in a rock pool in Kiama, on New South Wales’ South Coast, on February 7. A similar sighting was reported up the coast in January, and more recently in February, the ...

The tiny but deadly blue ringed octopus can paralyze and kill humans in minutes, with no known antidote.