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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discovered: DNA half-life makes Jurassic Park impossible; legalizing assisted suicide doesn't make everyone want to die; look at this venomous blue-ringed octopus; cellular findings earn Nobel.

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

Jaun-Paul 'JP' Kalman was only in the waist-deep waters of Balmoral Beach in Australia but when he picked up an oyster shell ...

Jaun-Paul 'JP' Kalman, 43, was paralysed by a bite from a blue-ringed octopus, one of the most venomous animals in the ocean, ...