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 ...

Juan-Paul 'JP' Kalman thought he was picking up an oyster shell at Balmoral Beach when a venomous blue-ringed octopus wrapped around his thumb left him fighting for life ...

Richard Blyth was fishing by the North Shore pier this week when he noticed the electric blue spots of the poisonous octopus. “I was a bit under the size of a tennis ball,” he said. Blue-ringed ...

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

SANTA FE, Philippines – 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 ...

A fisherman got the surprise of his life when he spotted a blue-ringed octopus clinging to rocks in the city’s north. Richard Blyth was fishing by the North Shore pier this week when he noticed the ...