The natural world has produced some of the most potent poisons known to science. Here are some of the deadliest to humans ...

Jaun-Paul 'JP' Kalman was only in the waist-deep waters of Balmoral Beach in Australia but when he picked up an oyster shell ...

A dad thought he had picked up an oyster shell while wading at a Sydney beach - but he was wrong ...

Beachgoers are being urged to remember there are other critters that call our oceans home after a South Coast man was airlifted to hospital following an octopus bite. The Australian Museum describes ...

Mr Johnson said he had been coming to Lorne in summer for 25 years and had “never seen anything like this”. The 47-year-old Whittlesea man and his family were out of the water following a shark ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same. Cephalopods like the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) ...

What Glenn Johnson thought was floating rubbish at Lorne Beach turned out to be a rare southern Argonauta octopus that squirted ink at him. Mr Johnson said he had been coming to Lorne in summer for 25 ...

British journalist Andy McConnell had a "brush with death" when he handled one of the world’s deadliest octopuses during a trip to the Philippines. The writer and author, who regularly appears on BBC ...

Or that an innocent-looking pea seed can be more toxic than ricin? I’m counting down 25 of the most poisonous things on Earth—starting with a tiny octopus whose venom is powerful enough to kill 26 ...