This blue-ringed octopus has been spotted lying on a beach near Melbourne, Australia.
Those octopuses are not especially known for their aggressiveness. On the contrary, they tend to stay hidden under rocks at the bottom of the sea.
The real risk is for a kid to find this creature and think “hey, why not play with it ? It seems funny and spongy!”. Indeed, their venom is the strongest of all among the cephalopod creatures, able to kill a human easily.
This weird picture (at first, I thought the octopus had a white cream mantle!) was taken by Nick William in New Orleans:
“I was walking home around 8 p.m. last night and thought, oh no someone didn’t clean up after their dog, only to realize it was a real octopus. I didn’t want to touch that slimy thing,”.
The weird part is, he was in Dauphin St, New Orleans when this happened. And if you have a look at the map (which I did), you begin to wonder: what the heck did the octopus do on Dauphin St ???
