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 ...

ENOSHIMA, Japan As snack bars start to reopen and windsurfers drift back to this popular beach town south of Tokyo, few denizens are aware that they're sharing real estate with one of the most lethal ...

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 ...

Don't let the beauty or size of the blue-ringed octopus fool you. While it's quite stunning, with bright yellow skin patterned with small blue rings that intensify when it is threatened or under ...

Cephalopods have colour-changing chromatophores on their skin, which allows them to camouflage themselves — but the blue-ringed octopus has a different trick up its tentacle. Michelle Starr is ...

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 ...

Jason Tolley from Perth, was snorkelling and collecting sea shells with his son at Point Peron in Western Australia last week, stumbling upon a blue-ringed octopus hiding inside one of the shells. In ...

The woman, in her 30s, was bitten on her stomach Thursday afternoon at about 2.45pm at Chinamans beach in Mosman. “This woman was swimming and picked up a shell. It contained a small blue-ringed ...

An urgent warning has been issued for a popular Sydney beach after an extremely venomous creature was found “where kids were playing”. The extremely venomous blue-ringed octopus was discovered in the ...