This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelorette with my colleague, Jeremy Zackis.

He is in New South Wales and Sydney.

It's been several weeks since Jeremy reported in on the Reptile Report.

Now, I've joked with Jeremy over the years that you meet the exotic creatures in Australia

and then everyone tries to kill you.

I was a joke, but it turns out Australia has more and more creatures that try to kill you.

We're going to begin with something that I didn't know existed.

A blue-ringed octopus attacked a woman on a Sydney beach.

Jeremy, what the heck is a blue-ringed octopus?

Oh, John, the blue-ringed octopus.

Now, this is, I guess, in some ways a delicacy in Australia,

and so far as a delicacy of the venomous touch.

And it's very unusual because it's only really sad in Australia.

And the blue-ringed octopus is exactly how it's found.

Very small octopus, maybe.

The biggest one's only really got to about six inches across when you have the tentacles all out.

But what they are is basically the small little creatures

that like to lurk in the shallows of the beach,

is hiding in rocks and hiding in the warmer part.

And I mean, 90% of the time they look like any other octopus.

They're just a brown, sandy cover, and you really can't see them.

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