A nurse has lifted the lid on the 'itchy' sensation many people experience after a dip in the ocean - and the explanation is ...

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A warning from doctors to treat bites and stings from wildlife seriously comes after a woman was bitten by a brown snake and ...

Jaun-Paul 'JP' Kalman was only in the waist-deep waters of Balmoral Beach in Australia but when he picked up an oyster shell ...

Jaun-Paul 'JP' Kalman, a dad, was enjoying a beach day at Balmoral Beach in Sydney, Australia, when he picked up what he ...

Learn how to survive a blue-ringed octopus bite.

What Glenn Johnson initially mistook for rubbish floating in knee-deep water at Lorne Beach on Tuesday turned out to be an ...

Beachgoers are being urged to remember there are other critters that call our oceans home after a South Coast man was ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same.

A Geelong mother has issued a warning after her eight-year-old spotted one of the world’s deadliest creatures swimming among children at a tourist hotspot on New Year’s Day. Off-duty paramedic Bek ...

Off-duty paramedic Bek Groten’s evening stroll along the Geelong foreshore on New Year’s Day was interrupted when her son alerted her to the lethal animal. “The tide was out so he was just running ...