The blue-ringed octopus is small, but its venom is powerful enough to kill multiple humans in a short time. It delivers neurotoxins that can cause rapid paralysis, making it difficult or impossible to ...

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

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

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 Sydney man is lucky to be alive after being bit by a poisonous blue-ringed octopus at Balmoral Beach. Police say there is no credible information that accused triple murderer Julian Ingram is in ...

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