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Most Poisonous Animals
Source: Science Blog February 6, 2008 • BOX JELLYFISH, found around Australia and Asia use the venom that slowly eats away your skin, causes excruciating pain that lasts for weeks and can stop your heart or paralyze your lungs. • MARBLED CONE SNAIL lives in reefs all over the world. Tooth-like appendage attaches to the victim and shoots out a proboscis that causes first weakness, then numbness and nausea and finally death caused by the lungs being paralyzed. • BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS is well known for painful, fatal bite. Deadly neurotoxin comes from this octopus’ saliva. The poison works in these stages: first muscular weakness and numbness, and then cessation of breathing, followed by death. • DEATH STALKER SCORPION is the most poisonous scorpion in the world and lives in Middle East and North Africa. Its sting causes unbearable pain, fever, coma, convulsions, paralysis and death. • STONEFISH from Australian coast and Pacific is easily mistaken for a coral or sea rock. The venom, stored in its thirteen spines is capable of stopping almost any animal and gives humans intense pain, swelling of tissue and shock, and death. • SYDNEY FUNNEL WEB SPIDER is large and aggressive resident of Australian outback. Its fangs can deliver neurotoxin that can kill a person in fifteen minutes. • INLAND TAIPAN is the most poisonous snake on earth and another native of Australia. One bite of this otherwise gentle and shy reptile can kill approximately one hundred people. • POISON DART FROG from the rain forests of Central and South America carries its toxins in the skin. Only two micrograms of this deadly poison can easily kill a large mammal as well as a human being.
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Interesting information Daria. I didn't know there was a poisonous octopus!
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That's why this life is so much fun. We learn something new every day, aren't we? Thanks for reading and following!! :)
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