A Geelong mother dismissed her eight-year-old when he shouted he’d found a blue-ringed octopus at Eastern Beach – until she looked closer and realised one of the world’s deadliest creatures was ...

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 ...

The blue ring octopus is a small animal with a lethal secret. Though small, this poisonous creature carries a powerful toxin that can kill a human being within minutes. What is even more frightening ...

A British tourist narrowly escaped a fatal encounter in the Philippines after handling a venomous blue-ringed octopus, mistaking it for a harmless bab ...

The blue-ringed octopus may be tiny, but its venom is deadly. A video of a man holding this world's venomous animal goes viral online.

A UK tourist unknowingly handled one of the world’s most venomous sea creatures while filming on a Philippine beach ...

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 ...

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 ...

An 18-year-old man in Australia was collecting seashells to show his niece and putting them into his pocket, not knowing a deadly creature was hiding inside one of them. Jacob Eggington could have ...

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