Blue-ringed octopus mating. These small Hapalochlaena sp. octopus live in tide pools in the Pacific and are one of the world's most venomous marine an

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Blue-ringed octopus mating. These small Hapalochlaena sp. octopus live in tide pools in the Pacific and are one of the world's most venomous marine animals. Photographed in the Lembeh Strait, North Sulewesi, Indonesia.

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