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 ...

A woman in Australia was recently bitten multiple times by a blue-ringed octopus — one of the world's most toxic animals — and lived to tell the tale. On March 16, the woman was bitten twice on her ...

An Australian woman swimming at a Sydney beach was bitten multiple times by the dangerously fatal blue-ringed octopus on Thursday, according to reports. The Australian, a newspaper in Australia, ...

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 for ...

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

The blue-ringed octopus is small, but its venom is powerful enough to kill multiple humans in a short time. It delivers neurotoxins that can cause rapid paralysis, making it difficult or impossible to ...

A relaxing stroll along Sydney Harbour could have turned deadly for one man and his dog after a brush with one of Australia’s most venomous sea creatures. Jesse Donnison and his dog Otto were walking ...

SYDNEY, Australia (WJW) – A woman swimming by a beach near Sydney, Australia was taken to the hospital Thursday afternoon after reports say she was bitten twice by an extremely venomous blue-ringed ...

A blue-ringed octopus was spotted in a rock pool in Kiama, on New South Wales’ South Coast, on February 7. A similar sighting was reported up the coast in January, and more recently in February, the ...

Octopuses already exist in a strange corner of the animal world, with soft bodies, problem-solving brains, and the ability to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SYDNEY, Australia (WJW) – A woman swimming ...