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.

The blue-ringed octopus may be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but its venom is among the deadliest biological weapons found anywhere in the animal kingdom. Armed with a neurotoxin ...

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

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 ...