The blue ring octopus's poisonous ability is enough to make anyone wary of its existence, but what really makes it so deadly?

Blue-ringed octopuses are undeniably stunning. When they are alarmed, these animals will show off the eponymous iridescent blue rings that cover their body and arms. But their adorably small size and ...

The animal is one of four species of the extremely venomous blue-ringed octopus and is known as a blue-lined octopus due to its non-circular markings. Blue-lined octopuses (Hapalochlaena fasciata ...

However, the short copulatory arms of the blue-ringed octopus mean it cannot mate at a distance from the female. In this study, a research team from the University of Queensland in Australia ...

Blue-lined octopuses belong to a family of blue-ringed octopuses, which are found throughout tropical waters of the western Pacific from the Sea of Japan to southern Australia. The research team ...

Paramedics are reminding people not to touch the venomous blue ringed octopus after a woman was rescued from a bite of that octopus in Sydney recently. Groups of blue-ringed octopuses are known ...

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 octopus. A woman ...

A blue-ringed octopus was spotted in the waters of Siquijor. According to Kuya Kim's report on "24 Oras," Wednesday, this kind of octopus is venomous but docile, which means they don't just randomly ...

Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and cannibalised by their much larger partners. The male octopus of this ...