A woman was bitten by a blue-ringed octopus after she picked up a shell when she was swimming at a beach on Sydney's Lower North Shore. 9News
"A blue-ringed octopus bite is a rare call for us but they are extremely venomous."They range from the size of a finger to the size of a fist, with species in northern Western Australia tending to be bigger.The blue colour only becomes easily visible when they are threatened.
The blue colour only becomes easily visible when they are threatened, most of the time they look like regular brown octopuses.In Australia there have been three recorded deaths in the past century.to receive our daily newsletters and breaking news alerts, sent straight to your inbox.
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