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The blue-ringed octopus! An elegant little creature, native to the southwest Pacific, particularly the waters around Australia. Pretty to look at… but mostly famous for being very, very venomous. The blue-ring’s bite is deadly.  A single sharp nip can kill an adult human in minutes.But why? The blue-ring is a modest little creature that lives in shallow water, preying on small fish and crustaceans. A bite that can paralyze a 10 gram fish or a 20 gram crab, sure. A bite that can kill a 70 kilogram human dead? What’s the point of that? Well: the good news is, a recent paper has discovered just why the blue-ringed octopus is so deadly. The bad news is… um, it’s kind of disturbing.Trigger warning for sexual assault, cannibalism, and existential horror. I am not kidding.A bit of pedantry first: the “blue-ringed octopus” is actually four or five closely related species scattered across the southwest Pacific and Indian Oceans.  The paper refers to “blue-striped octopus” but from a layman’s point of view they’re almost identical.

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In bullying Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, Trump showed his core beliefs.