A man captured himself unknowingly holding the world’s deadliest octopus, a blue-ringed octopus, in the Philippines in a ...

Blue-ringed octopi are some of the deadliest marine life in the ocean, though they rarely bite humans. There are several species of blue-ringed octopus, part of a genus known as Hapalochlaena. They ...

McConnell later reflected on this experience, stating, "My close encounter with death...was both inadvertent and to which I was entirely oblivious." The blue-ringed octopus is a genus of small but ...