Thanks that s a really interesting lead So over the last half dozen years this is an active and funded area of research Norman at Museum Victoria and Strugnell at La Trobe are both focused on the evolution while novel pharmaceuticals are being sought at UQ IMB Unfortunately the 2007 mention transcript lacks detail there is no source suggested for the statement about pyjama dumplings no explanation is it poisonous only to eat certain parts or to be bitten by it or to expose skin near it and if poisonous then to what and with what effects I m reading conflicting accounts of whether it is rare or common for octopus to use poison etc Hopefully some detail has been published in the academic literature