An Australian teen nearly died when he was bitten by a poisonous blue-ringed octopus hiding in a shell he scooped out of the ocean to show his niece. Jacob Eggington, 18, was swimming and looking ...

Australia — An Australian teen who put a sea shell into his pocket with the intent of giving it to his niece nearly died when he was bitten by poisonous octopus that was hiding inside the shell ...

A man has been whipped by what he described as the "angriest octopus" while swimming on holiday at a Western Australian beach. In a video that has gone viral, the octopus can be seen in shallow ...

A father was attacked by what he described as the "angriest octopus" off the coast of Western Australia on March 18. Lance Karlson, a geologist and former lifeguard, was in Geographe Bay in ...

Doctor Amanda Reid is a taxonomist and former employee of the Australian Museum in Sydney. She says while many octopuses release a toxin, blue ringed octopus is a stand out. "They're not different ...

The body of the tiny octopus doesn't get much bigger than a golf ball and can be as small as a penny. They're native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, swimming through waters from Australia and ...

Go diving into the intertidal waters of the Great Barrier Reef along the northeastern coast of Australia, and you might happen upon a tiny octopus, no more than the size of your hand. Perceiving ...

Blue-ringed octopus are famed for being one of the most venomous animals on the planet, and the symptoms from a bite are the stuff of nightmares. But how worried do you need to be?

An early-morning walk through the mangroves in Broome, Western Australia, reveals how this rich ecosystem has sustained the country’s First People since time immemorial.