What happens when you hold the Blue-Ringed Octopus? A man holds the world’s most venomous animal

The blue-ringed octopus may be tiny, but its venom is deadly. A video of a man holding this world's venomous animal goes viral online.
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Journalist's 'brush with death' after handling octopus 1,000 times more toxic than cyanide

British journalist Andy McConnell was enjoying a morning beach walk on Cebu Island in the Philippines when he came across a ...

1,000 times more poisonous than cyanide: Man unknowingly plays with world’s deadliest octopus weighing less than an apple

A British tourist narrowly escaped a fatal encounter in the Philippines after handling a venomous blue-ringed octopus, mistaking it for a harmless baby. This tiny creature, packing a toxin potent ...

Oblivious Brit tourist films brush with death unaware of danger lurking in beach clip

Andrew McConnell came across the blue-ringed octopus in the Philippines, not knowing it is one of the deadliest animals on the planet despite its small and cute appearance ...
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World’s Most Venomous Octopus Bites Woman Multiple Times, And She Survives

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Brit Tourist's Brush with Death: The Hidden Dangers of Marine Life

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 ...
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Woman hospitalized after multiple bites from venomous octopus

A woman in Australia was rushed to the hospital on Thursday after she was bitten by a highly venomous octopus. The unnamed woman in her 30s was swimming at Chinamans Beach in New South Wales when she ...