SYDNEY (Reuters) - A swim on holiday at a Western Australia beach has resulted in a painful octopus "whipping" - and a video of the encounter that has gone viral. Geologist and author Lance Karlson ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SYDNEY, Australia (WJW) – A woman swimming ...

(CNN) -- Considered by biologists to be some of the most intelligent invertebrates, octopuses are normally playful and inquisitive. But an Australian geologist saw another side to the marine creatures ...

For decades, scientists have assumed so-called gloomy octopuses (or octopus tetricus) were just a bunch of loners. But now there's evidence these marine creatures hang out in small octo-cities, ...

A dolphin in Australia choked to death on a giant octopus after trying to swallow the creature whole. The bottlenose dolphin was discovered on Stratham Beach, Western Australia on August 30, 2015, ...

A woman swimming by a beach near Sydney, Australia was taken to the hospital Thursday afternoon after reports say she was bitten twice by an extremely venomous blue-ringed octopus. A woman swimming by ...

SYDNEY – A swim on holiday at a Western Australia beach has resulted in a painful octopus “whipping” – and a video of the encounter that has gone viral. Geologist and author Lance Karlson was about to ...