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 ...

A British man vacationing in the Philippines very closely escaped death after he unknowingly handled a super poisonous octopus. Andrew “Andy” McConnell is a historian who regularly appears on the UK ...

Juan-Paul 'JP' Kalman thought he was picking up an oyster shell at Balmoral Beach when a venomous blue-ringed octopus wrapped ...

A British man in the Philippines unknowingly handled one of the deadliest animals in the world on Wednesday. Andy McConnell was vacationing in the Philippines when he stumbled across a blue-ringed ...

Don’t mess with the blue-ringed octopus. The golf ball-sized cephalopod, which lives in the Pacific Ocean along shallow shores, carries a neurotoxin that can kill an adult human within minutes. But ...

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

Venom is one of nature’s most effective (and fascinating) survival tools. Across the world, a wide range of animals have ...