The animal is one of four species of the extremely venomous blue-ringed octopus and is known as a blue-lined octopus due to its non-circular markings. Blue-lined octopuses (Hapalochlaena fasciata ...

A council environmental officer was in the field recently when he spotted a Blue-ringed Octopus at Callan Park, described by the NSW government as "one of the hidden gems of Sydney’s Inner West".

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New Guinea is home to some of the world’s most toxic birds. Why they contain poison, and how they withstand it is still a ...

Tetrodotoxin - often shortened to TTX -was named for the fish but scientists have since found it in other species including the blue-ringed octopus. It’s produced by bacteria that live on food items ...

The octopus is the epitome of an animal with a ... Their nervous system, rather, is a nerve ring surrounding their mouth, and radial nerve nets branching into every arm. With this spread-out ...

a neurotoxin also found in deadly saltwater puffer fish and blue-ringed octopus, and a bright orange belly to ward off predators. Without these traits, the Mazama newts are more susceptible to ...

Never lick or ingest." 3. While on a tropical vacation, blue-ringed octopus The blue-ringed octopus is just the sort of hallucinogenic beauty a scuba diver would hope to discover while exploring ...