In June 2024 and for years, rumors have spread that a very small, beautiful octopus covered in blue rings has enough venom to kill 26 adults within minutes: The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small ...

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

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 Exeter backpacker in Australia says he's "still freaked out" after filming his mates inadvertently playing with an octopus that can kill a bus load of adults with its toxic venom. Pinhoe man Ross ...

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

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 ...

An unsuspecting British tourist narrowly escaped death after picking up one of the planet's most lethal creatures in a beach ...

A fisherman has shared his miraculous tale of survival after he was bitten by a blue-ringed octopus - one of the most venomous creatures in the ocean with enough poison to kill more than 20 people.

Two backpackers have been described as "thicker than concrete" after 'playing' with one of the world's deadliest creatures that could have killed them almost instantly. The British and Irish duo ...

Families have come alarmingly close to the deadly blue-ringed octopus after a horrified beachgoer spotted it floating just off the water's edge at a popular bay. Dozens of people were swimming at ...