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 ...

Octopuses have a few characteristics that make them stand out as one of the most intelligent mollusks in the ocean. These slippery, strange ocean creatures, characterized by their large craniums and ...

The blue-ringed octopus, a small marine creature found in the Indo-Pacific region, harbors enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes. Its potent neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin, causes rapid ...