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"I Had an Encounter with Death": Tourist Plays with the Most Poisonous Octopus in the World without Knowing It

This is my close encounter with death. Fear for a British tourist on holiday in the Philippines. Man, Andy McConnell, a British historian, stumbled upon us, playing unknowingly in an octopus with blue rings, one of the most poisonous animals in the world. I was completely unaware until I published a post about it, McConnell wrote in the caption of the video shot with the octopus. Hapalochlaena lunulate, this is the scientific name of the octopus…

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Considering it harmless, he picked it up and then posted photos of the encounter on Instagram - "It's the most poisonous creature in the world," they wrote.

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This is my close encounter with death. Fear for a British tourist on holiday in the Philippines. Man, Andy McConnell, a British historian, stumbled upon us, playing unknowingly in an octopus with blue rings, one of the most poisonous animals in the world. I was completely unaware until I published a post about it, McConnell wrote in the caption of the video shot with the octopus. Hapalochlaena lunulate, this is the scientific name of the octopus…

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A British tourist in the Philippines went viral after handling a blue-ringed octopus, one of the world's most venomous animals. The recording shows the moment he holds the octopus while swimming in the ocean. British tourist touches the world's most venomous octopus and films it. Andy McConnell, on vacation in the Philippines last Wednesday, was swimming in shallow water when he came across a small blue-ringed octopus. Fascinated by its bright c…

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A British tourist took a photo with a small marine creature on a Philippine beach without knowing that it was a blue-ringed octopus, the most poisonous invertebrate species on Earth, LADBible reported. A tourist Britannique aux Philippines is filmed in manipulative une pieuvre à anneaux bleus, ignorant qu'il tient la mort entre ses mains. Sa toxine, capable from paralyser le système nerveux, est 1000x plus mortelle que le cyanure. pic.twitter.co…

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entrelineas.com.mx broke the news in on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
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