The Abdopus octopus is found in intertidal zones along the Northern Australian coastline. Rather than being restricted to ...

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

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic and Antarctic islands. The Southern Hemisphere is penguin territory, although ...

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

It took some time for John Schneider to decompress after the end of a 2025 season that came two outs, one Will Smith cleat and one bulldozing Andy Pages catch from Toronto celebrating its first World ...

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 ...

What Glenn Johnson thought was floating rubbish at Lorne Beach turned out to be a rare southern Argonauta octopus that squirted ink at him. Mr Johnson said he had been coming to Lorne in summer for 25 ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same. Cephalopods like the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) ...

A Geelong mother dismissed her eight-year-old when he shouted he’d found a blue-ringed octopus at Eastern Beach – until she ...