10.
Puffer Fish
This puffy fish produce rapid and violent death..Puffer’s poisoning
causes deadening of the tongue and lips, dizziness, vomiting, rapid
heart rate, difficulty breathing, and muscle paralysis. Victims die from
suffocation as diaphragm muscles are paralyzed. Most of the victims die
after four to 24 hours. There is no known antidote.
Almost all
pufferfish contain
tetrodotoxin, a substance that makes them
foul tasting and often lethal to fish. To humans, tetrodotoxin is
deadly, up to 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide. There is enough
toxin in one pufferfish to kill 30 adult humans.
9.
Inland Taipan
Just a single bite from this snake contains enough venom
to kill 100 human adults or an army of 250,000 mice. Its venom is at
least 200 – 400 times more toxic than a common cobra. The Inland
Taiwan’s extremely neurotoxic venom can kill an adult human in as little
as 45 minutes.
This snake is found in remote outback of Australia and rarely come in contact with humans. It feeds on rodents and rats.
8.
Poison Dart Frog
The 2 inch long (5cm) golden
poison dart frog has enough venom to kill 10 adult humans or 20,000
mice. Only 2 micrograms of this lethal toxin (the amount that fits on
the head of a pin) is capable of killing a human or other large mammal.
They are called “dart frogs” because indigenous Amerindians’ use of
their toxic secretions to poison the tips of their blow-darts.
They live within a tiny
plot of rain forest on the Pacific coast of Colombia. Their coloring,
which can be yellow, orange, or pale green, depending
on their particular range, is deliberately ostentatious to ward off
potential predators, a tactic called aposematic coloration.
7.
The Brassilian Wondering Spider
This spider is believed to have the most potent neurotoxic venom of
any living spider. Only 0.006mg (0.00000021oz) is sufficient to kill a
mouse. They are also so dangerous because of their wandering nature.
They often hide during daytime in highly populated areas inside houses,
clothes, boots, and cars.
Brazilian
Wandering Spiders are extremely fast, extremely venomous, and
extremely aggressive.This spider is believed to have the most
potent neurotoxic venom of any living spider.
6.
Stone Fish
Its venom causes such a severe pain that the victims of
its sting want the affected limb to be amputated. It is described as the
worst pain known to man. It is accompanied with possible shock,
paralysis, and tissue death. If not given medical attention within a
couple of hours It can be fatal to humans.
Stonefish mostly live above the tropic of Capricorn, often found in the
shallow tropical marine waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans,
ranging from the Red Sea to the Queensland Great Barrier Reef.
5.
Death Stalker Scorpion
Death Starker Scorpion is highly dangerous
species because its venom is a powerful cocktail of neurotoxins which
causes an intense and unbearable pain, then fever, followed by coma,
convulsions, paralysis and death. Fortunately, while a sting from this
scorpion is extremely painful, it would be unlikely to kill a healthy,
adult human.
The neurotoxins
found in Death Stalker venom are being studied by scientists, who hope
to find in them a treatment for some diseases, noteably some forms of
brain cancer, and diabetes.
The Death Stalker Scorpion is found in North Africa and the Middle
East. It prefers a dry climate, and makes its home in natural burrows
or under stones.
4.
Blue-Ringed Octopus
The
Blue-Ringed Octopus is very small, only the size
of a golf ball, but its venom is so powerful that can kill a human.
Actually it carries enough poison to kill 26 adult humans within
minutes, and there is no antidote. They are currently recognized as one
of the world’s most venomous animals.
Its painless bite may seem harmless, but the deadly neurotoxins begin
working immediately resulting in muscular weakness, numbness, followed
by a cessation and breathing and ultimately death.
3.
Marbled Cone Snail
One drop of its venom is
so powerful that it can kill more than 20 humans.Symptoms of a cone snail sting can start immediately or can be
delayed in onset for days. It results in intense pain, swelling,
numbness and tingling. Severe cases involve muscle paralysis, vision
changes and breathing failure. There is no antivenom. However, only
about 30 human deaths have been recorded from cone snail envenomation.
The Marbled Cone Snail can vary in color from black with white dots to
orange with white patterns. The Marbled Cone Snail has a unique way of
trapping it prey. When the snail locates a passing fish it shoots out a
toxic harpoon and then reels its prey in. The venom of the Marbled Cone
Snail is designed to paralyze its victim allowing the snail to feast at
its leisure.
2.
King Cobra
The
King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the world’s
longest venomous snake – growing up to 5.6 m (18.5 ft) in length.
Ophiophagus, literally means “snake-eater” as it eats other snakes. One
single bite of this deadly snake can easily kill a human. This snake is
even capable of killing a full-grown Asian Elephant within 3 hours if
the larger animal is bitten in a vulnerable area such as the trunk.
1.
Box Jellyfish
The top prize for “The World Most Venomous Animal,” would go to the
Box Jellyfish.
It has caused at least 5,567 recorded deaths since 1954. Their venom is
among the most deadly in the world. It’s toxins attack the heart,
nervous system, and skin cells. And the worst part of it is that jelly
box venom is so overpoweringly painful, that human victims go in shock,
drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore. Survivors
experience pain weeks after the contact with box jellies.
You have virtually no chance to survive the venomous sting, unless
treated immediately. After a sting, vinegar should be applied for a
minimum of 30 seconds. Vinegar has acetic acid, which disables the box
jelly’s nematocysts that have not yet discharged into the bloodstream
(though it will not alleviate the pain). Wearing panty hose while
swimming is also a good prevention measure since it can prevent jellies
from being able to harm your legs.
Jelly box can be found in the waters around Asia and Australia.
And one bonus deadly snake for the end.
Sea snake (Hydrophis belcheri)
This is the most toxic snake both on land and in water. Also called faint-banded sea snake.
It has a friendly temperament and would normally have to be subjected
to severe mistreatment before biting. Usually those bitten are
fishermen handling nets, although only a quarter of those bitten are
envenomated since the snake rarely injects much of its venom.
It has a myotoxic
venom many times more effective than any land snake.
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