A Geelong mother dismissed her eight-year-old when he shouted he’d found a blue-ringed octopus at Eastern Beach – until she ...

Beachgoers are being urged to remember there are other critters that call our oceans home after a South Coast man was ...

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 ...

An Australian teen nearly died when he was bitten by a poisonous blue-ringed octopus hiding in a shell he scooped out of the ocean to show his niece. Jacob Eggington, 18, was swimming and looking for ...

A teenager in Australia nearly died from a poison octopus' bite after he pocketed a seaside souvenir. 18-year-old Jacob Ettington was hunting for shells at Shoalwater Beach, near Perth, local outlet ...

A teenager is lucky to be alive after making an innocent mistake at a beach that left him in hospital. Jacob Eggington, 18, was swimming in the water collecting shells at Shoalwater Beach in ...

British journalist Andy McConnell was enjoying a morning beach walk on Cebu Island in the Philippines when he came across a group of excited children passing around what they described as a "baby ...