It’s an octopus-eat-octopus world. Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into the hearts of female octopuses — to ...

When they're alarmed, blue-lined octopuses display iridescent blue rings on their arms to ward off approaching predators. Totti via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Animals have evolved many ...

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 ...

An Australian teenager had a lucky escape after being bitten by an extremely toxic blue-ringed octopus. A toddler also came close to touching the deadly cephalopod. When you purchase through links on ...

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 ...

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 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 ...