A woman in Australia was recently bitten multiple times by a blue-ringed octopus — one of the world's most toxic animals — and lived to tell the tale. On March 16, the woman was bitten twice on her ...

The blue-ringed octopus is the only octopus to have a lethal toxin that can kill humans. Read here to learn about potential ...

A British man visiting the Philippines is lucky to be alive after he handled a deadly animal, and the video is going viral.

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 ...

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 ...

The Blue-lined Octopus is a species of octopus famous for its highly toxic tetrodotoxin, and inhabits the shallow waters and coral reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean from the Ogasawara Islands and the ...

A blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena) is a creature that belies its small size with an astonishingly lethal secret. Measuring no larger than approximately 2.5 inches in length, with arms spanning ...

As an octopus biologist, I get a call from the media every summer because someone has had an encounter with a blue-ringed octopus. Thankfully, everyone has been OK. Blue-ringed octopus are famed for ...

A deadly blue-ringed was found on a man’s plate at a restaurant in China. The man narrowly stopped short of eating it after he posted the photo online and a science blogger pointed out the toxic ...

A deadly blue-ringed has been spotted in a densely-populated section of the Parramatta River in Sydney's inner west for the first time since the 1960s. The golf ball-sized creature was found at Callan ...

A young boy has narrowly escaped death after one of the world's most poisonous creatures was hiding inside an innocent-looking seashell he picked up at the beach. Benaiah Tolley, 9, was snorkelling ...