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 ...

Blue-ringed octopi are some of the deadliest marine life in the ocean, though they rarely bite humans. There are several species of blue-ringed octopus, part of a genus known as Hapalochlaena. They ...

A relaxing stroll along Sydney Harbour could have turned deadly for one man and his dog after a brush with one of Australia’s most venomous sea creatures. Jesse Donnison and his dog Otto were walking ...

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 ...

An Australian woman swimming at a Sydney beach was bitten multiple times by the dangerously fatal blue-ringed octopus on Thursday, according to reports. The Australian, a newspaper in Australia, ...

Journalist's 'Brush With Death' After Handling Octopus 1,000 Times More Toxic Than Cyanide ...

A warning has been sent out to parents after a young girl unknowingly took home a deadly marine animal that was hiding in a shell on a Western Australian beach. After a day of playing on Coogee beach, ...

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

A dad thought he had picked up an oyster shell while wading at a Sydney beach - but he was wrong ...

A diver has captured a dramatic video of a crab squaring up to an octopus on the seabed in Australia. The video sees the blue-ringed octopus crawling along the seabed before encountering the crab, ...