Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A yellow octopus with blue rings on its body sitting on the seafloor An Australian teenager had a lucky escape after being bitten ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teenager in Australia nearly died from a poison octopus' bite after he pocketed a seaside souvenir. 18-year-old Jacob Ettington ...

Normally, collecting seashells is seen as a pretty low-risk activity, but the scavenge became almost deadly for one Australian who accidentally pocketed a dangerous hitchhiker. On Sunday, 18-year-old ...

An Australian teen nearly died when he was bitten by a poisonous blue-ringed octopus hiding in a shell he scooped out of the ocean to show his niece. Jacob Eggington, 18, was swimming and looking for ...

A relaxing stroll along Sydney Harbour could have turned deadly for one man and his dog after a brush with one of Australia’s most venomous sea creatures. Jesse Donnison and his dog Otto were walking ...

The bite from the octopus is painless and Eggington didn’t notice it until he took the shell out of his pocket and saw the octopus, 7 News reports. Eggington inspected his leg and found the bite, a ...

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 ...

For example, the blue-ringed octopus has an extremely powerful venom, which can kill a person within minutes. Moreover, this small creature is about the size of a golf ball and has a very calm ...

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 ...

This video shows a close-up view of a blue-ringed octopus resting among coral and rocky surfaces in the coastal waters of ...