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As an octopus biologist, I get a call from the media every summer because someone has had an encounter with a blue-ringed octopus. Thankfully, everyone has been OK. Blue-ringed octopus are famed for ...

A woman in Australia was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after she was bitten by a highly venomous octopus. The unnamed woman in her 30s was swimming at Chinamans Beach in New South Wales when she ...

With a split-second muscle contraction, the greater blue-ringed octopus can change the size and color of the namesake patterns on its skin for purposes of deception, camouflage and signaling.