The blue ring octopus's poisonous ability is enough to make anyone wary of its existence, but what really makes it so deadly?

Some male octopuses tend to get eaten by their sexual partners, but male blue-lined octopuses avoid this fate with help from one of nature’s most potent venoms ...

UQ It may explain why the venom gland in the male blue-lined octopus is about three times the size of the female’s. As one of several blue-ringed octopus species endemic to Australia’s east coast, the ...

While most ants are harmless, the harvester ant has venom that rivals some of the deadliest snakes. Its sting is 20 times ...

A blue-ringed octopus captured underwater in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia. A blue-ringed octopus captured underwater in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia. Getty Images The venom used by the blue-lined ...

Scientists have found that male blue-lined octopuses inject venom and paralyse females during sex to avoid being killed and cannibalised by their much larger partners. At such a critical moment in US ...

Tiny creatures like the Irukandji jellyfish, Blue-Ringed Octopus, Brazilian Wandering Spider, Cone Snail, Deathstalker ...

Among the Hapalochlaena, or the blue-ringed octopuses, venom is often used in this way, being wielded by several species to fight threats and find food. But the venom of the blue-lined octopus ...