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 ...

A teenager from Australia nearly died after being bitten by a small — but incredibly venomous — sea creature. Jacob Eggington, 18, was looking for seashells for his young niece at popular Shoalwater ...

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 ...

PERTH, Australia — An Australian teen who put a sea shell into his pocket with the intent of giving it to his niece nearly died when he was bitten by poisonous octopus that was hiding inside the shell ...

A teenager is lucky to be alive after making an innocent mistake at a beach that left him in hospital. Jacob Eggington, 18, was swimming in the water collecting shells at Shoalwater Beach in ...

Mat Rogerson found a deadly blue-ringed octopus on his snorkeling gear in Australia, according to a Facebook post. Screengrab from Facebook Mat Rogerson regularly goes snorkeling off the coast of ...

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 British tourist narrowly escaped a fatal encounter in the Philippines after handling a venomous blue-ringed octopus, mistaking it for a harmless baby. This tiny creature, packing a toxin potent ...

A viral video shows a British man holding blue-ringed octopus (Image: X/@CollinRugg) A viral video shows a man holding a tiny but deadly octopus. This creature is known as the blue-ringed octopus, one ...