Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living things, including humans. Tetrodotoxin is most famously known from pufferfish — ...

A blue-ringed octopus is one of several species of small octopuses that display small, bright blue rings on their body when they are alarmed. They live in tide pools and shallow reefs.

The blue-ringed octopus is tiny and gorgeous — but, as we Australians know, those dainty blue iridescent rings are a warning sign. The octopus' venom is the deadliest in the world, ...

Blue-ringed octopuses are incredibly beautiful animals, especially when they show off their bright patterns. But despite their small size and pretty colours, it's important to remember that their ...

Blue-ringed octopuses do not create tetrodotoxin themselves. Instead, the toxin is produced by symbiotic bacteria that live in their salivary glands, according to the Australian Institute of ...

Blue Ring Discovered Around Uranus Date: April 7, 2006 Source: University of California, Berkeley Summary: The outermost ring of the planet Uranus turns out to have a bright blue color, according ...

Blue Ring, he said, has 12 docking ports, each able to accommodate payloads weighing up to 500 kilograms. A top deck on the spacecraft can carry payloads weighing up to two and a half tons.

The newly discovered outer ring of Uranus is bright blue, for the same reason the Earth's sky is blue, astronomers say. It's made up of tiny particles. The ring is "strikingly similar" to Saturn's ...

Among all the red rings around the large planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the lone blue ring in the orbit of Saturn's moon Enceladus stood out. Now that ring has a companion. UC ...