The blue-ringed octopus is small, but its venom is powerful enough to kill multiple humans in a short time. It delivers ...

The blue-ringed octopus shows bright patterns on the seabed in Australian waters, Australia. Its appearance is striking but ...

Venom is one of nature’s most effective (and fascinating) survival tools. Across the world, a wide range of animals have ...

This review contains spoilers.  Imagine you are at your desk at work and you just finished a giant project for a company that you don’t get credit for. You get a new boss who sucks but is also played ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.

A father described the terrifying moment when one of the sea's deadliest creatures nearly claimed his life. Jaun-Paul 'JP' Kalman was paddling in the shallow waters of Balmoral Beach, located in ...

Watching an octopus punch an annoying fish is hugely satisfying to frustrated humans. And other animals do the ...

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 ...

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 ...

15 January 1926: Nowadays any bird may carry a small, metal ring on one leg, placed there by some student of migration Whenever I walk along the shore I hunt the tide-wrack for “corpses”; whenever I ...