Tiny, colorful and almost cartoonishly cute, it looks like the sort of sea creature you’d want to photograph up close... but ...

An experienced local diver and underwater photographer has captured an extremely rare sight: a mother blue-ringed octopus carrying her eggs in Port Phillip Bay.

A lucky diver managed to capture the rare sight of a mother blue-ringed octopus with her eggs in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria.

Thomas Mulligan examines the potent neurotoxins of the blue-ringed octopus to reveal how such a small creature can pose a ...

The Kimberley’s coral reefs feature animals like mantis shrimp and blue-ringed octopus. The Kimberley coast is lined by thousands of square kilometers of coral reef. We get an up-close visit with some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Go diving into the intertidal waters of the Great Barrier ...

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in all of the ocean. The blue-ringed octopus (genus Hapalochlaena) is small ...

A local diver captured a rare glimpse of an elusive blue-ringed octopus carrying her eggs off Australia’s Victoria coast. The ...