The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze venom effects, first aid, and survival actions after a blue-ringed octopus ...

The tiny but deadly blue ringed octopus can paralyze and kill humans in minutes, with no known antidote.

A Sydney man is lucky to be alive after being bit by a poisonous blue-ringed octopus at Balmoral Beach. Police say there is no credible information that accused triple murderer Julian Ingram is in ...

Some of the most dangerous creatures on Earth don’t snarl, stalk, or look threatening. Many appear gentle, slow, or even ...

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Venom is one of nature’s most effective (and fascinating) survival tools. Across the world, a wide range of animals have ...

What Glenn Johnson initially mistook for rubbish floating in knee-deep water at Lorne Beach on Tuesday turned out to be an extraordinary find — a living Southern Argonaut octopus that squirted him ...

Mr Johnson said he had been coming to Lorne in summer for 25 years and had “never seen anything like this”. The 47-year-old Whittlesea man and his family were out of the water following a shark ...

From bluebottles, to octopi, and jellyfish of all shapes and sizes, there are many creatures in Australia's coastal waters that cause stings, or, in a few rare cases death, for those unlucky enough to ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

Australians often head to the Pacific or Asia to find the perfect island escape, but our own island offer beaches as good, or ...

This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.