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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

"If it wasn't for her, I'd be dead. "I absolutely owe her my life," he later acknowledged. The venom of the blue-ringed octopus causes swift paralysis, immobilizing muscles while the victim remains ...

A woman in Australia was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after she was bitten by a highly venomous octopus. The unnamed woman in her 30s was swimming at Chinamans Beach in New South Wales when she ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...