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 ...

A diver in Cyprus was amazed after an octopus he regularly swims with seemed to play a game of hide and seek with him. Matthew Hyatt, who posts daily videos of his attempt to befriend this octopus, ...

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 ...

The crinkly form of a small, dried octopus lay on a desk in Washington, D.C., 170 years ago. The curious cephalopod, which had been collected more than 7,000 kilometers away in Brazil, was one of ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Craig Foster was diving, bare-chested, in bitterly cold waters off the southern-most tip of Africa when he saw her — an octopus hiding under a cloak of shells and stones. Enchanted, he began ...

Craig Foster was diving, bare-chested, in bitterly cold waters off the southern-most tip of Africa when he saw her — an octopus hiding under a cloak of shells and stones. Enchanted, he began following ...