The World's 5 Most Venomous Species

that's why i don't go swimming

so if its not a jellyfish, what is it?

hmmm Australian animals anyone? ( well besides the spider). That's why I won't go to Australia or as I like to call it " The Giant Isle of Death", yeah yeah I know it's a continent but I don't care. Crocodiles? Box Jellyfish? Blue Ringed Octopi? Coastal and Inland Taipan? Etc? blech! That's right Jason, I'm never coming to visit you on your wicked isle of deadly beasts

I had a Wandering Spider like pet and what can I say... well, was not a good idea. One day it escaped from my aquarium and I needed to be very careful walking in my house for more than one week until I found then (well, really was my friend that found the spider for me. She was going to use a shoe and started screaming when saw the spider inside the shoe)

You missed the Funnel Web Spider.

joe namath, panty hose? damn

Just an amusing note, octopus is Greek, not Latin, so the plural is not octopi but octopodes.

I really enjoyed this.

4 out of 5 are found in Australia

I love my country <3

So two of the six deadliest creatures are on land what is there to worry about?

It's amazing to think that 60% of this list is made up of sea dwelling creatures. Maybe i'll stick to the beach.

i wish you hadn't told me that. now i'm going to have to figure out a way to talk about more than one octopus today so i can work the word Octopodes into the conversation.

Oh, and to Jamie, box jellyfish are cubozoa. They basically look like jellyfish but they have a cubical main body.

I didn't include the funnel web spider because the guiness book says the brazilian one is the most poisonous, although I wanted to because it was cool.

Yeah I had to drag my 'lifeguard' girlfriend out of the sea once. She'd been washed down the beach with the current.

Then, when we were knee deep in water, we got stung. She sat down in the water, of course.

I took the big hit, in my leg. That venom travelled right up to my balls. MY BALLS MAN!!!! :(

What about the golden poison frog? (Phyllobates terribilis) I believe it has one of the most toxic poisons of any vertebrate, although it isn't technically venomous. And dangerwise, it ranks pretty low...its only usual victims being monkeys and other small mammals that fall prey to the native South American Chaco Indians who dip their blowgun darts into the frog's toxic skin.

I thought the australian sea snake was the most venomous?

Agreed on two comments :
1 - The Atrax Robustus (Funnel Web Spider) is the most venomous spider. Not the most dangerous (the wandering spider is more dangerous), but the most venomous, particularly because while many spiders usually "dry bite", the Atrax almost always does a "wet bite"
However, even if the Atrax's venom detains the grim record of having killed a young boy in less than 15mn, it rarely causes death. I don't think spiders should make it to this top 5
2 - The australian sea snake IS the most venomous species

the guiness book for 2007 says the brazilian wandering spider is the most venomous. That being said, i have no idea whether that means most potent venom or most venom by volume in a spider. it's possible they're both the most venomous but in different categories (toxicity vs. volume). Could be the same with the taipan versus the sea snake because I found several sources saying each was the most venomous.

Great article -- I wouldn't nickpick exactly what the "most poisonous" is because it's not a single quantity and experts are going to disagree. Is it how many people are killed a year by an animal? Your probability of being killed if you're stung? How toxic the venom is per unit weight?

It's just something to see how animals evolve to do amazing things in order to survive.

The conotoxin of the conus geographus or cone snail is the most potent venom known to man.

errrr... is this in any particular order? reply to this comment

your chances of living through a venomous Brazilian wandering spider bite is much better than through the top 10 snake bites. Even the venomous bites. It's just an agressive spider and it's venom is very nasty, but not very deadly to adult humans.

the cone snail is the second most deadly animal

I thing the the dart frog frog have be there vecause
there venom is realy dengerus the can kill a lot of persons with his venom

wat bout
stalker scorpion & dart frog

daddy long legs but they have no teeth to use it

australian sea snake may b poisonous but drop by drop inland taipan is the venomous snake.poisonous dart frogs r also very dangerous.but i think the list is abt most venomous creatures.venom differs from a poison .venom is dangerous only when it is injected.dart frogs are poisonous not venomous.u can correct me if iam wrong i will b glad correct my mistake. dangerous can b explained in many ways too...

NO I'd say 5. Box Jelyfish 4. Stonefish 3. Funnel web spider 2. Komodo Dragon and the most venomous hands down is the golden poison dart frog.

k wait 5. Box Jellyfish 4. Stonefish 3. Funnel Web Spider 2. Cone Snail and still 1. golden poison dart frog.

The cone snail is more venomous than any of those and you didn't list it.

BTW Komodo Dragons are not venomous. Their mouths are full of deadly bacteria that will be very bad news if you were to get bit but not venom.

yeah, this is why i can hardly trust the web for hard facts, stop bickering and go read a book by someone who knows this stuff. but the one guy was right, poison has to be ingested, venom injected. you can actually drink venom and be ok.

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walrus yer story is soooo funny

oh and i am aussie and i have never seen any of those creatures and funnel webs r only around sydney so u got everywere but sydney to live walnut

Ew...
but what about the daddy-long-legs spider, but it dosent have any fangs to bite...

I dont think i'll be in any rush to got to Oz now, but its useful to know abit about the deadly's before i suppose
=]

hi
you missed the boomslang

Bacterial toxins are by far the most potent of any known toxins. All other known toxins aren't even close.

http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/proteintoxins.html

i agree with the walnut!
(except for the part about Jason, cuz i don't really knoe a jason)

This is so completely wrong, 1) the most venomous animal is actually the poison dart frog, it only takes 2micrograms of its venom to kill a human being which is about the amount of ink used to make a dot. The box jellyfish very rarely has enough venom to actually kill a human mainly only causes sickness and death only when not treated within a few hours. the box jellyfish is probably about 8th most venomous. 2) the inland taipan is the most posionous snake and although relatively calm and not prone to attack one bite contains around 100 micrograms of poison enough to kill 30 people. 3) The brazilian wandering spider is possibly fatal, the most deadly spider which is both agressive and highly venomous is the sydney funnel web spider a bite from this spider can kill within 15 minutes, a bite from the wandering spider would cause nausea and lungs to sieze but would take many hours if not treated.

The List is more like:

8 - Box Jellyfish
7 - Marbled Cone Snail
6 - Blue Ringed Octopus
5 - Death Stalker Scorpion
4 - Stonefish
3 - Sydney Funnel Web Spider
2 - Inland Taipan
1 - Poison Dart Frog

And people who think the daddy longlegs is poisonous it it just a myth. The crane-fly or what many people call a daddy longlegs is not actually poisonous at all. There is a similar spider the 'long-legged cellar spider' which is venomous and looks similar to a daddy longlegs which is how the myth appeared. Just thought id clear that up for people :)

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The inland taipan’s nastiness can probably be inferred by its other name, the fierce snake. It’s the most poisonous snake in the world, with a single bite containing enough venom to kill up to 100 adults. Not only is it deadly, but it’s a quick killer too. It can kill you in less than 45 minutes. Fortunately for you, I doubt you spend too much time wandering the deserts of central Australia. Even more fortunately, there are no actual documented human fatalities. The snake is particularly timid, won’t bite if left alone, and there’s an antivenom. So wander around the Australian deserts with confidence, secure in the knowledge that only several dozen other animals might kill you.

I'm having a difficult time reconciling the two bolded portions. Explain?

And people who think the daddy longlegs is poisonous it it just a myth. The crane-fly or what many people call a daddy longlegs is not actually poisonous at all. There is a similar spider the ‘long-legged cellar spider’ which is venomous and looks similar to a daddy longlegs which is how the myth appeared. Just thought id clear that up for people :)

The name "daddy-long-legs" is applied to three different groups of arthropods: the tipulidae, or crane flies (insects); the opiliones, also called harvestmen (arachnids, but not true spiders); and the pholcidae, also called cellar spiders (true spiders). Of these, with the possible exception of one or two opilione genuses, only the last are venomous, and the venom of pholcids is not dangerous to humans except, perhaps, the occasional person with a catastrophic allergic reaction. I'm not sure where the myth that the "daddy-longlegs" is the most poisonous creature in existence started, but whoever thought it up must still be snickering at people's credulity.

To people that are wondering - Poison Dart Frogs aren't on here because they are not venomous - they are toxic/poisonous. Although they are the most toxic thing on earth. ;)

hey how can u stay out from these deadliest animals?? Coney dod

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thanks, Predator-Prey relationship is between a predator is a carnivorous animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animal in order to survive and prey is an animals caught, killed, and eaten by another animal as food. does that mean i could get eaten by an snake or what. chocolate vanilla strawberry blueberry love u bye

:] yea, what about the daddy-long-leg spider? I always herd that it was the most deadly spider in the world, but their fangs just couldnt bite throught the human skin? Is that true?

To the walnut: dude i live in Australia and actually the spider one is wrong the most deadly spider is the tree dwelling funnel web spider its venom is made to kill monkey like primates (eg. humans) even though there is no monkey's in Australia so i guess we are "the giant isle of death" haha

i think its a great list there is some kind of dabate on animals in the comments section above me, so heres my contribution, why is the blue ring octopus beautiful but deadly?

WELL....THE BOX JELLYFISH IS DEFINATELY THE MOST VENOMOUS CREATURE IN D WORLD AND THE POISON DART FROG IS D MOST POISONOUS ANIMAL IN D WORLD....THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POISONOUS AND VENOMOUS........CHECK D INTERNET 4 MORE INFORMATION

jason....THE ANSWER 2 UR QUESTION IZ THAT ITS BRIGHT BLUE RINGS R ITS WARNING SAYING"DONT DARE TOUCH ME"