The blue-ringed octopus, a small marine creature found in the Indo-Pacific region, harbors enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes. Its potent neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin, causes rapid ...

A warning has been sent out to parents after a young girl unknowingly took home a deadly marine animal that was hiding in a shell on a Western Australian beach. After a day of playing on Coogee beach, ...

Octopuses are some of the most amazing creatures of the ocean. They are smart, flexible, and can change colour to hide from their predators. While many octopuses are small, some species can grow to ...

The video received over eight million views and over one million likes. The blue-ringed octopus has "enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes." Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. A ...

One woman got way more than she bargained for during a beach day in Bali. On Monday, Kaylin Phillips posted a short video on TikTok, which showed her "unknowingly holding one of the most dangerous ...

A diver has captured a dramatic video of a crab squaring up to an octopus on the seabed in Australia. The video sees the blue-ringed octopus crawling along the seabed before encountering the crab, ...

"There were about three of us passing him around," the TikTok user said about handling the blue-ringed octopus, adding that she didn't think "anything of it" at the time One woman got way more than ...