Why the Blue-Ringed Golf Ball Sized Octopus Is One of the Most Venomous Creatures on Earth
It looks like a toy left behind by the tide – small, neat, almost charming – until the ocean’s quiet turns electric and luminous rings flare across its skin. The blue-ringed octopus, scarcely larger than a golf ball, carries a neurotoxin capable of stopping breathing in minutes, and there is no antivenom. Yet most encounters ...
