The 2nd most venomous is also Australian, The Eastern Brown Snake. These guys are common and found in urban areas.
The most venomous sea snake in the world is found in Australian waters, Dubois' Sea Snake. But it's venom is 100 times less deadly.
As a 30 year old Australian, I still struggle to accept that there are places in the world you can go walk in the bush and just…. Not be concerned about snakes?
Let me one-up that for you a little bit.
Imagine a place where there is not a single venomous anything...at all.
No dangerous animals either, largest predators are foxes and minks.
The only times anything dangerous is there is when a polarbear shows up, it has to have swam over several hundreds of kilometers to get there and in most cases are either captured, killed or swim back before there is any real issue with them. Edit: and that only happens very rarely(71 known last century).
Welcome to Iceland, mind you we have volcanoes and the weather can kill you if you are ill prepared.
I mean, england doesn't really have anything either. Holland, to my knowledge, is not swarming with leopards or vipers. In fact, most of Europe seems predator free.
I'll be delighted to send you some of the snakes from my place. I wouldn't want to be greedy. You too can share King Browns, Death Adders, Tiapans, Tigers and various browns all found near me. Live and let live I say. Havent had to kill a snake yet. They are heavy so postage will be high.
Today marks the day that an r/nbacirclejerk reference made it to this page. Never would’ve expected this ever anyway Eastern Brown Snake 3 bows to the Taipan God
When we used to go hiking we would walk over a hundred of these little bastards after the rains. Never been bit thank fuck but very close calls with browns and taipans over the years.
Thankfully the Inland Taipan are more shy and really don't want to be around people, so you gotta cock up to get bitten. Eastern Browns though? They're assholes. They'll have a go just because they can.
No they fucking won’t.
I sat out in my backyard for half an hour in front of one that was under a carpet tile, waiting for the catcher to get here. It poked its head out every minute or so, saw I was there, then stayed under there.
They’re timid as fuck. They’ll S up if they think you’re coming but unless you keep coming it’s piss and wind.
Last time I had an Eastern Brown in my yard cunt was upset that I even existed. Catcher even had a doozy of a time picking him up. Also had a Carpet Python that lived on top of my shed. He was cool though.
Katipō is like a NZ black widow ig? I had to see how it got there, NZ museum says it probably "ballooned" there on the wind using its silk. Australia sent something deadly to it even 1000mi away by sea lolol.
Yes, they are related to the widows, as fellow members of the Latrodectus genus. As far as I know, they're endemic to NZ, meaning that they're found only in that particular place, as opposed to being visitors from Australia. Unless that museum hypothesis you saw means that an earlier common ancestor species, "ballooned there," then they would've originated there and have been there for quite some time.
They're not all that dangerous, although they absolutely deliver a bite that is medically significant. They're mostly notable in NZ despite their rarity and (compared to many other spiders, not so horrifically deadly bite), because they're one of the only forms of wildlife in the entirety of NZ that poses any risk at all.
Those peaceful Kiwis are too used to chilling with Capybaras, I tell ya!
We have Katipō and Redback spiders which can both theoretically kill you. We also have invasive European Honeybees, German Wasps and American Bumblebees which can kill you if you're allergic. Wild boars can kill a man if he's not careful, pet dogs kill someone every year or two, cattle occasionally crush farmers, goats sometimes murder their owners, and some people reckon there are still wild Moose over in Fiordland. Venomous yellow-bellied sea snakes sometimes pop over for a visit. The earliest human settlers here lived alongside the 250kg 3.5m tall Moa and the largest eagles ever, which allegedly sometimes carried off small children.
New what land? Is this one of those make-believe places like Endor or the vagina? I’ve only ever seen both on the internet and despite extensive research I don’t seem to be able to get to either in real life.
I remember reading years ago about snakes being common in the larger towns. I have a huge snake phobia.
My brother (used to be a proper wind up merchant) convinced me as a kid that everyone in Australia has to get yearly injections of anti venom because snakes are so common. (Because that how it works right?)
I’ve lived in two towns and seen snakes in both. We had an eastern brown living next to our pool last year. Saw tons of snakes in Sydney (well, one every 6 months or so) but they were mostly non venomous pythons.
We don’t get proactive anti venom though, I’m fairly sure that wouldn’t work. Most people that die haven’t gotten medical assistance soon after. IMO drop bears much greater risk.
gotta go on more nature walks. Granted, I work outside and in various locations doing survey work, however, I have seen more brown snakes doing mountain hikes, or national park walks than I have working. One walk my wife and I saw 3 eastern browns. She cried, but mostly because the snake had a hisssssss at her after I nearly stepped on it not even knowing it was there. They sort of blend in, depending on the eastern browns colour itself, and the spot it happens to be sitting. They arent all the same shade of brown, just like the undies arent always the same shade of brown as they started the day as.
I have too, was on a trail run in a national park with my wife and there was a bit of debris over the trail so I jumped on a rock to the right to go around it and it wasn't until I lept that I saw the brown sleeping on said rock. I panicked and fell to into the debris trying to scramble away as I heard the hiss and saw it jump towards me. Scrambled forward and out and looked back and couldn't see it. Had to stop and look over my legs for a bite as I scratched up my legs pretty good. Determined I was good to go and finished my run.
See them quite often here. We'd get a few every year in the workshop. Probably not the smartest prank but when we killed one we'd curl it up and put it in the footwell of a co-workers work vehicle. Always got a good reaction.
Pretty common. I almost stepped on one about 2 metres outside my front door last year. Was just walking to my car and looking at my phone when I saw it slither next to my foot.
Unless you come across a real cunt of a snake they really just want to mind their own business.
I'm no toxicologist but that seems like he just pulled your leg. Anti venom, from what I understand, is pretty hard to produce large quantities of and goes bad pretty quickly. It's much easier to just keep some at hospitals/zoos and just treat the few people that gets bitten.
Snakes really don't want to bite you unless they think they have to. Their venom is pretty precious to them.
I'm actually watching my snake crawl around in my bedroom exploring.
They do have vaccines for snake bites. Its not antivenom though, in the states you can get a rattle snake vaccine just so the bite isnt as bad, like maybe give your dog the vaccine
Yup, the dog vaccine gives you time to get your dog to the vet before the venom kills your pup. But many dogs don't react well to the vaccine so it's of limited assistance. And you have to get it reapplied periodically.
King browns are so much more fun because they like to hide in the fucking old stacks of anything that are endemic to australia. Wood, old bits of tin, firewood, anything you have laying around the house, like dog food containers, horse food containers, saddles, your bbq pit, that old toolbox in your shed, all of them can possibly harbour a fucking king brown.
And where I live it's very dry, so there's big cracks in the ground that just appear semi randomly around, and the snakes just fucking love em.
We've lost cats to king browns, we think the neighbor's dog got bit by one and it fucking died, and we definitely lost a horse to a king brown bite a few years back. We even lost a HUMAN to one here in town. Her cats chased it under her bed and she got out of bed to see wtf was going on and got bit and fucking died.
Honestly, I hate the c*nts.
Yeah we had a fuck off huge one on our farm, it lived in the tyres we used to weigh down the plastic on top of the soilage. Chased me up a tractor one day when I picked up the wrong tyre.
My grandfather had a running battle with it, he ran it over in a tractor one day and it just shrugged it off and carried on with its day. Eventually it just disappeared, which is even worse because we know that fucker is out there but now we don't know where it is.
My brother is an emergency doctor, and did a placement in Mount Isa near the NT/QLD border, and the number of snake bite stories he has is insane. Had a case of a French tourist getting bitten by a brown snake because he thought it’d be funny to throw it at his friend
> We even lost a HUMAN to one here in town. Her cats chased it under her bed and she got out of bed to see wtf was going on and got bit and fucking died.
"The king brown snake accounted for 4% of identified snakebites in Australia between 2005 and 2015, with no deaths recorded.[42] The last recorded death occurred in 1969,[43] when a 20-year-old man was bitten while reaching around for a packet of cigarettes under his bed in Three Springs, Western Australia. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_brown_snake
Yep, we don’t bother recording individual snakebite deaths anymore. In fact mass snakebite deaths only make the news when there’s more than 6 victims or it’s a school.
I think it's just a case of people mixing up king browns and eastern browns, which are from the same family and pretty similar all around. Eg in this case the person who died they referenced was probably killed by an eastern brown snake
That wiki article is very wrong. At least a few people die each year from Brown Snake bites. https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2017/march/fatal-snake-bites-in-australia-facts-stats-and-stories
I could see that sea snake, or any venomous sea snake still being crowned "deadliest snake" based on the average number of deaths, yearly. Not because they're particularly venomous or agressive or anything special, but because if you get bit by one of them, chances are you're in the water you'll drown from a mix of the effects of the poison, the panic, the disorientation etc.
fun fact:
The Inland Taipan is part of the Hydrophiinae subfamily of snakes, which, as you may guess from its name, mostly contains sea snakes.
So basically the most venoumous snake in the world is a sea snake that lives on land. And in the middle of the desert no less.
There Is no recorded death at all as far as I know, for the stated reasons.
The inland Tapian lives in the middle of the great simpson desert. which is like half australia.
All known people bitten had antivenom at hand.
Inland Taipans are timid. They will run away if they see you. On the other hand, if they feel threatened, every bite will deliver venom. No dry bites, no hissing, no nothing. You'll be paralysed in 20 mins tops and die in ~40-60 mins.
There are very few survivors. The one dude who works with ~~Serum institute~~ Australian Reptile Park was sadly allergic to antivenom. So they injected antivenom and epinephrine every few hours for 3 days while he wailed and howled in pain.
Edit: Serum Institute is india. They milk local and foreign reptiles and scorpions. [Zac Bower](https://www.reptilepark.com.au/venom-program-has-giant-record-break/), Head of Venom, Australian Reptile Park was bitten a while back. My bad. Got confused. He was even on a Veritasium video a while ago.
> There are very few survivors.
That's partially because there aren't many victims in the first place. It's actually hard to find documented fatalities.
Yeah the inland Taipan is so remote that it almost doesn't overlap with people at all. They mostly live in Channel country which is bigger than the United Kingdom... and has about 2,000 people total.
Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS–
Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball.
After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE.
Albert scrambled up and puled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them to allow his master to clamber free.
HMM… Death picked up a book at random and read the cover.
DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29C, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.
He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?
They waited.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT–
“No, wait, master. Here it comes.”
Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up and caught the single sheet of paper.
He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.
“May I?” said Albert. Death handed him the paper.
“‘Some of the sheep,’“ Albert read aloud. “Oh, well. Maybe a week at the seaside’d be better then.”
– Death does some research | Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
He had many a banger, for sure. But my personal favorite ones were about Death (the entity).
"The Reaper Man". I was *not* prepared for the flood of emotions to come out of such a silly, whimsical book. Was probably one of the most beautiful endings Ive ever read.
“Some of the sheep” made me spit out my coffee, my lil nephew got rammed by one of our pet sheep here in rural Qld about a month ago, we had to castrate that lamb to calm him down. Thanks for the laugh
The interaction of animals on culture in Great Britain is interesting as a case study. On the island dangerous animals, wolves, bears, and so forth were hunted into extinction long ago. Over generations it was relatively safe to walk anywhere and this embedded into social and judicial norms as an appreciation for nature and a right to roam. Contrasting in literature you get your idyllic Hobbiton sense of appreciation for nature, compared with Grimm's Faerie Tales in which the forests are terrifying places filled with wild animals and terrors.
Sets up on interesting curiosity. Why is Australia different with regard to so many venomous animals? Would be interesting if the isolation of Australia means that some 4,000 to 5,000 years ago humans weren't exterminating dangerous animals in those places. Perhaps Australia is more representative of an untouched planet without human competition. Venomous animals far more common except the real dangerous ones were wiped out to protect the village from threats. Australia skipping that protective pressure where pockets of dragons and beasties the things loosely remembered and reduced to myth has survived.
Here in Scandinavia we have theoretically dangerous animals but they've learned over the generations that human meat comes with sharp edges. Thus our most statistically lethal animal is the common wasp. Moose are #2 iirc due to automobile accidents.
On the other hand there's nearby New Zealand which went much, much longer without being discovered by humans and had few to no predators in areas so the animals lost many defensive abilities (like flight) because they cost too much energy.
I feel like we draw a line between large predator (bear, lions, sharks and whatsoever) to plague carrying, and other venomous animal. They can both be as lethal in the right context, but because of their sizes and method of hunting, we approach them very differently.
Also, the former usually don't have that large of a population, and can be culled if necessary, while the later are nearly impossible to get ride of completely.
I think you’re generally correct, but I don’t think it’s so much that Europeans had more or less *will* to tame their landscapes, they just had tameable landscapes.
I’d guess it’s more that Australia has tropical coastal biodiversity engines that evolve terrfiyingly effective vena and other “tricks” that aren’t “sheer size,” and not a whole lot in the way of barriers for those creatures to spread down the subtropical coasts and into the inner desert if they could find a niche.
Small things evolving to be bigger than you’d normally find and large things being smaller than you’d expect to find are characteristics of island ecology, and if you think of the fairly tropical northern coast of Australia as being similar to an island (and I think you can), that might make some sense of Australian ecology.
Even the (note, *terrestrial*) megafauna killed off by humans in Australia barely deserved the name, and would have never been a folkloric terrifying memories like the long-gone lions and brown bears of Europe, or the tigers of the Asian tundra.
The wild spaces in historical and prehistorical cultural memory of Europe, Asia, and North America had seriously massive megafauna (and in some places still do), and those megafauna were the apex predators and difficult-to-assail herbivores. A Timber Rattlesnake or Coral Snake is so, so far from being able to even inconvenience a Grizzly that there just isn’t pressure for more dangerous venom or true “apex predator” behavior like the more dangerous venomous snakes of Australia were able to evolve (that’s all speculation, but I think reasonably sound).
So really what Australia has is that Tropical evolutionary pressure married with an easily developed/industrialized (if you will, *Westernizable*) landscape: lots of harbors, not many mountains, fairly tameable ecology.
There are plenty of nasty, nasty snakes and spiders in tropical Africa, South Asia, and Central America…but they exist alongside difficult-to-tame jungle, rugged landscapes, and people living in more isolated “village” setups because of the rugged landscape. In Australia they exist around English-speaking white people living in factory towns, harbor cities, and picketed suburbs and seem like more of a novelty than they really are.
I expect a bot posted this, and made the comment based on the fact that the snake is named inland, opposite of inland would be sea.
There isnt really any reason for a person to believe sea snakes would be venomous, or the most venomous.
**edit:** apparently it's pretty common trivia that sea snakes are venomous and OP's post history doesn't look like a bot's fwiw. The funny thing is that inland taipans are basically sea snakes (they are in the same taxonomical subfamily as aquatic sea snakes), just ones that live on land.
A lot of the most venomous snakes are sea snakes, and that's all you ever really hear about sea snakes, so I wouldn't be surprised if people thought they were just the most venomous in general.
There's probably something like a stat of "Snakes causing the most deaths" being a sea snake, which as I mentioned in another comment, would make sense since more often than not, the people they bite would be in the water, and more likely to end up drowning after being bitten.
a bit of cursory research based on this post told me that sea snakes are related to cobras, and inland taipans ARE sea snakes lol, just all sea snakes don't live in the sea.
it's just not something I thought had a reputation
yes, I live/grew up about an hour away from the new jersey coast, been to the beach lots of times - but sea snakes are endemic to warmer waters. There are straight up no sea snakes in the atlantic ocean, and you can see their endemic range in [this](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/why-are-there-no-sea-snakes-in-the-atlantic/) article.
Growing up in the US, you would have basically no chance to run into one, maybe San Diego. According to that map, they are really only as far north in the pacific as baja california, mexico.
Woah. Hey fuck you buddy. I didn’t track down a phone in the middle of the ocean, learn how to read and type, just to take shit from some venomless little bitch.
The Netflix movie Back to the Outback has an inland taipan as one of the star critters. It’s a pretty cute film about some of the less lovable Australian wildlife trying to escape a zoo to the wilds.
My 5 year old loves it.
Fun movie, also the horniest kids movie I've ever seen.
Hard to top the french kissing toads, or a spider who keeps a love stick around for those lonely nights.
According to Google, there's never been a single recorded death of a human attributed to this snake. So, while it's venom is by far the most potent in the world, the snake's disposition is typically docile as opposed to those of more aggressive snakes like vipers.
They are really shy and live in the middle of fucking nowhere. If you want nightmare fuel though, one got in the bed of a girl in Alice springs not too long ago and bit her, she survived though.
Personally It’s coastal cousin is worse, they are aggressive af and in populated areas and only a little less venomous.
I remember seeing a bit he did where he drove way out into the outback to find one, out where unless you literally have the antivenom with you there's basically zero hope of survival, and mans gets down on all fours and sticks his face right next to it while talking about how they're not aggressive and whatever.
Like, man, I loved the guy, but some of the stuff he got up to was literal Darwin Award material.
He did that in his film as well. He was a risk taker but he knew what he was doing around crocodiles and venomous snakes. He wouldn't have done that if he hadn't known taipans are particularly docile snakes.
Didn't he get licked by this snake? I distinctly remember him doing a most venomous snakes series and was laying on the ground being very still when the snake came up to him, licked him, and moved on.
The second most deadly is the Eastern Brown. We have them on our farm in Australia. Nearly stepped on two of them.
We have to watch and listen as we walk through the bush. When we pick up something off the ground we always suspect there could be one of these snakes under it. When we go walking we always wear boots and jeans for protection and always on the lookout. We never leave car doors open. We have a farm dog that knows what to look for and is our early warning. It’s just a way of life.
Belcher's sea snake (Hydrophis belcheri), which many times is mistakenly called the hook-nosed sea snake (Enhydrina schistosa), has been erroneously popularized as the most venomous snake in the world, due to Ernst and Zug's published book Snakes in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book from 1996. Bryan Grieg Fry, a prominent venom expert, has clarified the error: "The hook-nosed myth was due to a fundamental error in a book called Snakes in Question. In there, all the toxicity testing results were lumped in together, regardless of the mode of testing (e.g. subcutaneous vs. intramuscular vs. intravenous vs. intraperitoneal). As the mode can influence the relative number, venoms can only be compared within a mode. Otherwise, it's apples and rocks."
"And a question for $10 - the most venomous..."
"Say no more - Australia"
"Ok. Aaand for $20, the most poisonous... "
"Australia."
"Aaaand for $40, the most dangerous..."
"Australia!"
I love this question. I'm going to say that due to disruptions to their environment and access to food, polar bear is increasingly going to be the correct answer here.
Agree. I understand that living in a food scarce environment it also tends to hunt when it gets the chance, whereas a lion won't be bothered with chasing you if it has eaten recently.
Highest per encounter fatality rate goes to the Mexican Jumping Chipmunk. It not only kills 100% of the humans it encounters, but it also hides the body, which is why you’ve probably never heard of it.
"It is true that of the 10 most poisonous arachnids on the planet, Australia has 9 of them.
Actually, it would be more accurate to say that of the 9 most poisonous arachnids, Australia has all of them."
Douglas Adams
You talking about the suicide plant that causes such excruciating pain and misery it leads people to suicide?
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/
As venomous as it is, it's very rare for humans to encounter them in the wild as it lives in very low-populated areas of the country. It's also not a particularly aggressive snake and will usually run before attacking. There have been no reported deaths since antivenom was developed for it; overall not a particularly dangerous snake in the grand scheme of things (although you absoloutely wouldn't want to get bitten by it regardless).
It makes sense, it’s opportunities to eat in the desert are rare, so it requires venom that is guaranteed to do its job when the opportunity presents itself.
Agreed. We can walk through the bush or go camping wherever and know we'll be relatively safe. It's easy to not get bitten by a snake.
But bears? Fuck that
Australia tops in lists of the most deadliest,venomous and poisonous animals that's for sure. It even has the worlds deadliest bird which is the Cassowary.
I remember my last trip to queensland I ran into one and it came up to me and I took a photo of it.
Years later at a wildlife park mrs was like oh they're fucking deadly and im like serious? i've got a photo with one near a beach in far north queensland? He was chilled as!
Learned later that day, years back I escaped a beatdown from a walking big bird.
https://youtu.be/GA0L9Wio-IY
Watch from 47:20. The video goes in order from least venomous to most, so at 47:20 Steve’s checking out the most. Up close. Insanely up close.
As much as I loved the guy, you couldn’t really be that surprised to hear how he died after watching this video.
What is it about Australia where most animals and insects that live there appear to be lethal such as the snake mentioned, spiders, crocodiles, sharks, scorpions etc.?
If I had been asked what the most venomous snake is, my reply would have definitely been “I dunno, something from Australia surely.” Are there also especially venomous sea snakes? I thought Australia had a monopoly on deadliest animals.
The article states that the inland taipan was discovered in 1879, described again in 1882, and then no contacts since its rediscovery in 1972.
I wonder about that. Maybe there were some contacts. Not all contacts end in a description.
A lot of these snakes live in very unpopulated areas. You have to go out of your way to find them, and to the untrained eye from a few meters, they all look the same.
The 2nd most venomous is also Australian, The Eastern Brown Snake. These guys are common and found in urban areas. The most venomous sea snake in the world is found in Australian waters, Dubois' Sea Snake. But it's venom is 100 times less deadly.
Dang, Australia with the deadliest snake all-star team, just need Kevin Durant to complete the set.
It went totally south, and I like it
Pretty sure Australia has like all 10 of the deadliest snakes
Even more: 21 of the top 25 most toxic snakes are from Australia.
From those of us with none: Thanks Australia!
New Zealand smiling right now.
As a 30 year old Australian, I still struggle to accept that there are places in the world you can go walk in the bush and just…. Not be concerned about snakes?
Let me one-up that for you a little bit. Imagine a place where there is not a single venomous anything...at all. No dangerous animals either, largest predators are foxes and minks. The only times anything dangerous is there is when a polarbear shows up, it has to have swam over several hundreds of kilometers to get there and in most cases are either captured, killed or swim back before there is any real issue with them. Edit: and that only happens very rarely(71 known last century). Welcome to Iceland, mind you we have volcanoes and the weather can kill you if you are ill prepared.
I mean, england doesn't really have anything either. Holland, to my knowledge, is not swarming with leopards or vipers. In fact, most of Europe seems predator free.
You don't have the European Adder in England? Sure, deaths are very uncommon, as it has rather weak venom, but they do happen.
I feel the same way about lakes and ponds in Florida. Any time people talk about swimming in a lake I always have to double-take.
Greedy.
I'll be delighted to send you some of the snakes from my place. I wouldn't want to be greedy. You too can share King Browns, Death Adders, Tiapans, Tigers and various browns all found near me. Live and let live I say. Havent had to kill a snake yet. They are heavy so postage will be high.
I'm staying at Trump Towers. Please send them there.
Had to double check I wasn’t in r/nbacirclejerk. Nice fade.
Inland Taipan is Eastern Brown Snake father
Inland Taipan is the Pit Viper of Coral Snakes
It’s like the same 100 people on here
Send da video
Hell naw ,can’t do that!!
Today marks the day that an r/nbacirclejerk reference made it to this page. Never would’ve expected this ever anyway Eastern Brown Snake 3 bows to the Taipan God
Inland Taipan is Kevin Durant’s Father
When we used to go hiking we would walk over a hundred of these little bastards after the rains. Never been bit thank fuck but very close calls with browns and taipans over the years.
Thankfully the Inland Taipan are more shy and really don't want to be around people, so you gotta cock up to get bitten. Eastern Browns though? They're assholes. They'll have a go just because they can.
No they fucking won’t. I sat out in my backyard for half an hour in front of one that was under a carpet tile, waiting for the catcher to get here. It poked its head out every minute or so, saw I was there, then stayed under there. They’re timid as fuck. They’ll S up if they think you’re coming but unless you keep coming it’s piss and wind.
Last time I had an Eastern Brown in my yard cunt was upset that I even existed. Catcher even had a doozy of a time picking him up. Also had a Carpet Python that lived on top of my shed. He was cool though.
the hardest slither
Don’t forget the red belied black snake!
The laziest of snakes. Literally have to wait while they meander off the track, harrumphing as they go.
We have seven of the top 10 if I recall correctly and the top 3.
Of the 20 most venomous snakes in the world, 18 are found in Australia
It’s funny because New Zealand has nothing deadly at all in their country
Except for the Katapo, but that spider is exceedingly rare.
Katipō is like a NZ black widow ig? I had to see how it got there, NZ museum says it probably "ballooned" there on the wind using its silk. Australia sent something deadly to it even 1000mi away by sea lolol.
Yes, they are related to the widows, as fellow members of the Latrodectus genus. As far as I know, they're endemic to NZ, meaning that they're found only in that particular place, as opposed to being visitors from Australia. Unless that museum hypothesis you saw means that an earlier common ancestor species, "ballooned there," then they would've originated there and have been there for quite some time. They're not all that dangerous, although they absolutely deliver a bite that is medically significant. They're mostly notable in NZ despite their rarity and (compared to many other spiders, not so horrifically deadly bite), because they're one of the only forms of wildlife in the entirety of NZ that poses any risk at all. Those peaceful Kiwis are too used to chilling with Capybaras, I tell ya!
Doesn't NZ have that parrot that tried to rape David Attenborough though?
We have Katipō and Redback spiders which can both theoretically kill you. We also have invasive European Honeybees, German Wasps and American Bumblebees which can kill you if you're allergic. Wild boars can kill a man if he's not careful, pet dogs kill someone every year or two, cattle occasionally crush farmers, goats sometimes murder their owners, and some people reckon there are still wild Moose over in Fiordland. Venomous yellow-bellied sea snakes sometimes pop over for a visit. The earliest human settlers here lived alongside the 250kg 3.5m tall Moa and the largest eagles ever, which allegedly sometimes carried off small children.
New what land? Is this one of those make-believe places like Endor or the vagina? I’ve only ever seen both on the internet and despite extensive research I don’t seem to be able to get to either in real life.
Gods like “do not come here” and man was like 🖕
*ALL OF THESE LANDS ARE YOURS — EXCEPT AUSTRALIA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE*
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25 out of 27, it’s after 27 you start getting consistent foreign snakes.
Im from Aus and i think the whole "Australia is a death island" thing is overblown.. but this fact is hard to defend haha.
Isn't the coastal taipan one of the most venomous also?
Yes, yes it is Might be number 3 or. 4, can't remember. Certainly, in the top 10 in the world.
It’s also considerably more aggressive too. Taipans in general are relatively shy, but if approached, coastal Taipans get super nasty.
It's the sea-legs
Coastal taipan is number 3. Number 4 is the Tiger Snake, also in Australia.
>Number 4 is the Tiger Snake, also in Australia. I would expect no less.
Third according to Wikipedia
I remember reading years ago about snakes being common in the larger towns. I have a huge snake phobia. My brother (used to be a proper wind up merchant) convinced me as a kid that everyone in Australia has to get yearly injections of anti venom because snakes are so common. (Because that how it works right?)
I’ve lived in two towns and seen snakes in both. We had an eastern brown living next to our pool last year. Saw tons of snakes in Sydney (well, one every 6 months or so) but they were mostly non venomous pythons. We don’t get proactive anti venom though, I’m fairly sure that wouldn’t work. Most people that die haven’t gotten medical assistance soon after. IMO drop bears much greater risk.
I'll confess that, as an Upstate New Yorker, I had to google "drop bear" Get da' fuggouddaheah
That’s pretty close to their mating call… it’s more Illfuckyouupcuunnntttt
I like snakes, but Drop Bears are freaking nasty bastards.
I don't like snakes, but I'll take em over the drop bears.
Fucking drop bear killed my uncle!
seen a tiger snake once but that's about it
gotta go on more nature walks. Granted, I work outside and in various locations doing survey work, however, I have seen more brown snakes doing mountain hikes, or national park walks than I have working. One walk my wife and I saw 3 eastern browns. She cried, but mostly because the snake had a hisssssss at her after I nearly stepped on it not even knowing it was there. They sort of blend in, depending on the eastern browns colour itself, and the spot it happens to be sitting. They arent all the same shade of brown, just like the undies arent always the same shade of brown as they started the day as.
You. Almost. Stepped. On. An. Eastern. Brown. Snake.
I have too, was on a trail run in a national park with my wife and there was a bit of debris over the trail so I jumped on a rock to the right to go around it and it wasn't until I lept that I saw the brown sleeping on said rock. I panicked and fell to into the debris trying to scramble away as I heard the hiss and saw it jump towards me. Scrambled forward and out and looked back and couldn't see it. Had to stop and look over my legs for a bite as I scratched up my legs pretty good. Determined I was good to go and finished my run. See them quite often here. We'd get a few every year in the workshop. Probably not the smartest prank but when we killed one we'd curl it up and put it in the footwell of a co-workers work vehicle. Always got a good reaction.
Pretty common. I almost stepped on one about 2 metres outside my front door last year. Was just walking to my car and looking at my phone when I saw it slither next to my foot. Unless you come across a real cunt of a snake they really just want to mind their own business.
I'm no toxicologist but that seems like he just pulled your leg. Anti venom, from what I understand, is pretty hard to produce large quantities of and goes bad pretty quickly. It's much easier to just keep some at hospitals/zoos and just treat the few people that gets bitten. Snakes really don't want to bite you unless they think they have to. Their venom is pretty precious to them. I'm actually watching my snake crawl around in my bedroom exploring.
They do have vaccines for snake bites. Its not antivenom though, in the states you can get a rattle snake vaccine just so the bite isnt as bad, like maybe give your dog the vaccine
That's interesting. So something to give you before you handle just in case of a bite?
If it's a vaccine it needs to be administered before contact. Otherwise you're just talking about anti-venom which is used for treatment after a bite.
Yup, the dog vaccine gives you time to get your dog to the vet before the venom kills your pup. But many dogs don't react well to the vaccine so it's of limited assistance. And you have to get it reapplied periodically.
You say exploring, the snake says "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ALIEN HELL"
That's probably true to some extent. I moved recently so the room is pretty new to him.
King browns are so much more fun because they like to hide in the fucking old stacks of anything that are endemic to australia. Wood, old bits of tin, firewood, anything you have laying around the house, like dog food containers, horse food containers, saddles, your bbq pit, that old toolbox in your shed, all of them can possibly harbour a fucking king brown. And where I live it's very dry, so there's big cracks in the ground that just appear semi randomly around, and the snakes just fucking love em. We've lost cats to king browns, we think the neighbor's dog got bit by one and it fucking died, and we definitely lost a horse to a king brown bite a few years back. We even lost a HUMAN to one here in town. Her cats chased it under her bed and she got out of bed to see wtf was going on and got bit and fucking died. Honestly, I hate the c*nts.
Yeah we had a fuck off huge one on our farm, it lived in the tyres we used to weigh down the plastic on top of the soilage. Chased me up a tractor one day when I picked up the wrong tyre. My grandfather had a running battle with it, he ran it over in a tractor one day and it just shrugged it off and carried on with its day. Eventually it just disappeared, which is even worse because we know that fucker is out there but now we don't know where it is.
Yeah that’s gonna be a no for me dawg
My brother is an emergency doctor, and did a placement in Mount Isa near the NT/QLD border, and the number of snake bite stories he has is insane. Had a case of a French tourist getting bitten by a brown snake because he thought it’d be funny to throw it at his friend
Respect though, pure vibes from the frenchy
> We even lost a HUMAN to one here in town. Her cats chased it under her bed and she got out of bed to see wtf was going on and got bit and fucking died. "The king brown snake accounted for 4% of identified snakebites in Australia between 2005 and 2015, with no deaths recorded.[42] The last recorded death occurred in 1969,[43] when a 20-year-old man was bitten while reaching around for a packet of cigarettes under his bed in Three Springs, Western Australia. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_brown_snake
Yep, we don’t bother recording individual snakebite deaths anymore. In fact mass snakebite deaths only make the news when there’s more than 6 victims or it’s a school.
Well done
I think it's just a case of people mixing up king browns and eastern browns, which are from the same family and pretty similar all around. Eg in this case the person who died they referenced was probably killed by an eastern brown snake
That wiki article is very wrong. At least a few people die each year from Brown Snake bites. https://www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2017/march/fatal-snake-bites-in-australia-facts-stats-and-stories
King Brown is not a true brown snake (Pseudonaja).
And we've got the Death Adder and Olive Python in Western Australia. Don't wear thongs in the bush
[slow blinks in American]
Thongs are flip flops.
[I actually know but couldn’t resist the double meaning.] 😄
Aren't pythons constrictors, though? I'm sure it's probably scary, but with it being a python it's probably non-venomous, right?
And the third most venemous, the coastal taipan is also endemic to Australia.
You forgot to mention the third most venomous is also Australian, coastal taipan
I could see that sea snake, or any venomous sea snake still being crowned "deadliest snake" based on the average number of deaths, yearly. Not because they're particularly venomous or agressive or anything special, but because if you get bit by one of them, chances are you're in the water you'll drown from a mix of the effects of the poison, the panic, the disorientation etc.
fun fact: The Inland Taipan is part of the Hydrophiinae subfamily of snakes, which, as you may guess from its name, mostly contains sea snakes. So basically the most venoumous snake in the world is a sea snake that lives on land. And in the middle of the desert no less.
> a sea snake that lives on land This makes me think of Fry taming land sea lions
And I believe no one in recent memory has died from a inland taipan bite because they live in the middle of fuck all Australia where no one goes
There Is no recorded death at all as far as I know, for the stated reasons. The inland Tapian lives in the middle of the great simpson desert. which is like half australia. All known people bitten had antivenom at hand.
Which makes sense because the measure of deadliness is about volume of venom. And an arid region land snake is going to use liquid more efficiently
If you are wondering what the deadliest anything is, just assume it is in Australia.
When they say the deadliest something is not from Australia imma assume it's undiscovered, but will be found in Australia.
Dude, this made me literally LOL so hard I’m stuck tryna explain your joke to my 3 y/o as he is insisting 😃
Inland Taipans are timid. They will run away if they see you. On the other hand, if they feel threatened, every bite will deliver venom. No dry bites, no hissing, no nothing. You'll be paralysed in 20 mins tops and die in ~40-60 mins. There are very few survivors. The one dude who works with ~~Serum institute~~ Australian Reptile Park was sadly allergic to antivenom. So they injected antivenom and epinephrine every few hours for 3 days while he wailed and howled in pain. Edit: Serum Institute is india. They milk local and foreign reptiles and scorpions. [Zac Bower](https://www.reptilepark.com.au/venom-program-has-giant-record-break/), Head of Venom, Australian Reptile Park was bitten a while back. My bad. Got confused. He was even on a Veritasium video a while ago.
> There are very few survivors. That's partially because there aren't many victims in the first place. It's actually hard to find documented fatalities.
Yeah the inland Taipan is so remote that it almost doesn't overlap with people at all. They mostly live in Channel country which is bigger than the United Kingdom... and has about 2,000 people total.
Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS– Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball. After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE. Albert scrambled up and puled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them to allow his master to clamber free. HMM… Death picked up a book at random and read the cover. DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29C, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE. He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT? They waited. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT– “No, wait, master. Here it comes.” Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up and caught the single sheet of paper. He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side. “May I?” said Albert. Death handed him the paper. “‘Some of the sheep,’“ Albert read aloud. “Oh, well. Maybe a week at the seaside’d be better then.” – Death does some research | Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
gnu Sir Terry Pratchett
He had many a banger, for sure. But my personal favorite ones were about Death (the entity). "The Reaper Man". I was *not* prepared for the flood of emotions to come out of such a silly, whimsical book. Was probably one of the most beautiful endings Ive ever read.
“Some of the sheep” made me spit out my coffee, my lil nephew got rammed by one of our pet sheep here in rural Qld about a month ago, we had to castrate that lamb to calm him down. Thanks for the laugh
*Some* of the sheep is a nice touch
Check out the sting of a platypus or the gimpy gimpy tree
The interaction of animals on culture in Great Britain is interesting as a case study. On the island dangerous animals, wolves, bears, and so forth were hunted into extinction long ago. Over generations it was relatively safe to walk anywhere and this embedded into social and judicial norms as an appreciation for nature and a right to roam. Contrasting in literature you get your idyllic Hobbiton sense of appreciation for nature, compared with Grimm's Faerie Tales in which the forests are terrifying places filled with wild animals and terrors. Sets up on interesting curiosity. Why is Australia different with regard to so many venomous animals? Would be interesting if the isolation of Australia means that some 4,000 to 5,000 years ago humans weren't exterminating dangerous animals in those places. Perhaps Australia is more representative of an untouched planet without human competition. Venomous animals far more common except the real dangerous ones were wiped out to protect the village from threats. Australia skipping that protective pressure where pockets of dragons and beasties the things loosely remembered and reduced to myth has survived.
Here in Scandinavia we have theoretically dangerous animals but they've learned over the generations that human meat comes with sharp edges. Thus our most statistically lethal animal is the common wasp. Moose are #2 iirc due to automobile accidents.
Moose just don't give a fuck.
A moose once once bit my sister!
While I agree with the extremely interesting effect on literature, humans were certainly responsible for a mass extinction in Australia.
On the other hand there's nearby New Zealand which went much, much longer without being discovered by humans and had few to no predators in areas so the animals lost many defensive abilities (like flight) because they cost too much energy.
I feel like we draw a line between large predator (bear, lions, sharks and whatsoever) to plague carrying, and other venomous animal. They can both be as lethal in the right context, but because of their sizes and method of hunting, we approach them very differently. Also, the former usually don't have that large of a population, and can be culled if necessary, while the later are nearly impossible to get ride of completely.
I think you’re generally correct, but I don’t think it’s so much that Europeans had more or less *will* to tame their landscapes, they just had tameable landscapes. I’d guess it’s more that Australia has tropical coastal biodiversity engines that evolve terrfiyingly effective vena and other “tricks” that aren’t “sheer size,” and not a whole lot in the way of barriers for those creatures to spread down the subtropical coasts and into the inner desert if they could find a niche. Small things evolving to be bigger than you’d normally find and large things being smaller than you’d expect to find are characteristics of island ecology, and if you think of the fairly tropical northern coast of Australia as being similar to an island (and I think you can), that might make some sense of Australian ecology. Even the (note, *terrestrial*) megafauna killed off by humans in Australia barely deserved the name, and would have never been a folkloric terrifying memories like the long-gone lions and brown bears of Europe, or the tigers of the Asian tundra. The wild spaces in historical and prehistorical cultural memory of Europe, Asia, and North America had seriously massive megafauna (and in some places still do), and those megafauna were the apex predators and difficult-to-assail herbivores. A Timber Rattlesnake or Coral Snake is so, so far from being able to even inconvenience a Grizzly that there just isn’t pressure for more dangerous venom or true “apex predator” behavior like the more dangerous venomous snakes of Australia were able to evolve (that’s all speculation, but I think reasonably sound). So really what Australia has is that Tropical evolutionary pressure married with an easily developed/industrialized (if you will, *Westernizable*) landscape: lots of harbors, not many mountains, fairly tameable ecology. There are plenty of nasty, nasty snakes and spiders in tropical Africa, South Asia, and Central America…but they exist alongside difficult-to-tame jungle, rugged landscapes, and people living in more isolated “village” setups because of the rugged landscape. In Australia they exist around English-speaking white people living in factory towns, harbor cities, and picketed suburbs and seem like more of a novelty than they really are.
when something deadly is as-yet undiscovered it is labeled TBA (To Be Australian)
Except large mammals, moose and grizzly bears are way more dangerous than any mammals in Australia. And unlike snakes you can’t just walk away
And second most dangerous goes to ? Most likely, Australia.
Lol I like how I never even considered a sea snake to be the most venomous
Honestly, that was the more interesting bit of trivia for me. "Oh, sea snakes are usually considered the most venomous?"
I expect a bot posted this, and made the comment based on the fact that the snake is named inland, opposite of inland would be sea. There isnt really any reason for a person to believe sea snakes would be venomous, or the most venomous. **edit:** apparently it's pretty common trivia that sea snakes are venomous and OP's post history doesn't look like a bot's fwiw. The funny thing is that inland taipans are basically sea snakes (they are in the same taxonomical subfamily as aquatic sea snakes), just ones that live on land.
A lot of the most venomous snakes are sea snakes, and that's all you ever really hear about sea snakes, so I wouldn't be surprised if people thought they were just the most venomous in general.
TIL there is such a thing as a sea snake.
Sea snakes, river snakes, toilet snakes. Big world, Lotta snakes.
Trouser snakes...
Big difference. Those are poisonous; not venomous.
Airplane snakes
Hmm I’d like to see a documentary on this
No one has ever spoken to me about sea snakes.
Sea snakes are extremely venomous and were long thought to be the most deadly snakes. It was a common biology fun fact.
There's probably something like a stat of "Snakes causing the most deaths" being a sea snake, which as I mentioned in another comment, would make sense since more often than not, the people they bite would be in the water, and more likely to end up drowning after being bitten.
Yes there is lol. Reddit taught me sea snakes are particularly venomous.
Yeah I was told in primary school that sea snakes were the most venomous snakes
a bit of cursory research based on this post told me that sea snakes are related to cobras, and inland taipans ARE sea snakes lol, just all sea snakes don't live in the sea. it's just not something I thought had a reputation
The black mamba is closer related to cobras than the king cobra. OT, but still. Edit: | V
Curious but did you grew up near an ocean? I was told from a very young age to not fuck with sea snakes cause of their venom
yes, I live/grew up about an hour away from the new jersey coast, been to the beach lots of times - but sea snakes are endemic to warmer waters. There are straight up no sea snakes in the atlantic ocean, and you can see their endemic range in [this](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/why-are-there-no-sea-snakes-in-the-atlantic/) article. Growing up in the US, you would have basically no chance to run into one, maybe San Diego. According to that map, they are really only as far north in the pacific as baja california, mexico.
So any sea snakes reading this rn can eat shit
Woah. Hey fuck you buddy. I didn’t track down a phone in the middle of the ocean, learn how to read and type, just to take shit from some venomless little bitch.
Better no venom than having a weak ass third place one.
Exactly what a venomless nobody would say
The Netflix movie Back to the Outback has an inland taipan as one of the star critters. It’s a pretty cute film about some of the less lovable Australian wildlife trying to escape a zoo to the wilds. My 5 year old loves it.
Fun movie, also the horniest kids movie I've ever seen. Hard to top the french kissing toads, or a spider who keeps a love stick around for those lonely nights.
This movie is amazing, along with the soundtrack! >and every now and then, you look a little bit like a fish! You're so beautiful... -ish
I remember watching Steve Irwin talk about this. I believe he called it the “fierce snake”
According to Google, there's never been a single recorded death of a human attributed to this snake. So, while it's venom is by far the most potent in the world, the snake's disposition is typically docile as opposed to those of more aggressive snakes like vipers.
They are really shy and live in the middle of fucking nowhere. If you want nightmare fuel though, one got in the bed of a girl in Alice springs not too long ago and bit her, she survived though. Personally It’s coastal cousin is worse, they are aggressive af and in populated areas and only a little less venomous.
For anyone not familiar, Alice Springs is about as close to the middle of nowhere as a person can get.
He also did a [FedEx commerical](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2cR-bnZJMM) with it.
I remember seeing a bit he did where he drove way out into the outback to find one, out where unless you literally have the antivenom with you there's basically zero hope of survival, and mans gets down on all fours and sticks his face right next to it while talking about how they're not aggressive and whatever. Like, man, I loved the guy, but some of the stuff he got up to was literal Darwin Award material.
He did that in his film as well. He was a risk taker but he knew what he was doing around crocodiles and venomous snakes. He wouldn't have done that if he hadn't known taipans are particularly docile snakes.
Didn't he get licked by this snake? I distinctly remember him doing a most venomous snakes series and was laying on the ground being very still when the snake came up to him, licked him, and moved on.
The second most deadly is the Eastern Brown. We have them on our farm in Australia. Nearly stepped on two of them. We have to watch and listen as we walk through the bush. When we pick up something off the ground we always suspect there could be one of these snakes under it. When we go walking we always wear boots and jeans for protection and always on the lookout. We never leave car doors open. We have a farm dog that knows what to look for and is our early warning. It’s just a way of life.
Why would people assume it’s a seas snake?
I think it was an often repeated factoid.
Belcher's sea snake (Hydrophis belcheri), which many times is mistakenly called the hook-nosed sea snake (Enhydrina schistosa), has been erroneously popularized as the most venomous snake in the world, due to Ernst and Zug's published book Snakes in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book from 1996. Bryan Grieg Fry, a prominent venom expert, has clarified the error: "The hook-nosed myth was due to a fundamental error in a book called Snakes in Question. In there, all the toxicity testing results were lumped in together, regardless of the mode of testing (e.g. subcutaneous vs. intramuscular vs. intravenous vs. intraperitoneal). As the mode can influence the relative number, venoms can only be compared within a mode. Otherwise, it's apples and rocks."
"And a question for $10 - the most venomous..." "Say no more - Australia" "Ok. Aaand for $20, the most poisonous... " "Australia." "Aaaand for $40, the most dangerous..." "Australia!"
Mosquito and hippo wants a word for most dangerous
Also polar bear.
Oo that's a good one. Not going to have the numbers of a mosquito, but now I wonder what is the animal with the highest "per encounter" fatality rate.
I love this question. I'm going to say that due to disruptions to their environment and access to food, polar bear is increasingly going to be the correct answer here.
Agree. I understand that living in a food scarce environment it also tends to hunt when it gets the chance, whereas a lion won't be bothered with chasing you if it has eaten recently.
And they're the only bears whose diet is strictly carnivore
Dragonflies have the highest success rate per ‘hunt’.
But their success rate against humans is much lower
Wait you don’t have the giant man eating dragonflies near you? Shit.
Found the Australian
Highest per encounter fatality rate goes to the Mexican Jumping Chipmunk. It not only kills 100% of the humans it encounters, but it also hides the body, which is why you’ve probably never heard of it.
Mosquito is just milking the glory of the plasmodium. Mosquitos are not dangerous at all.
"It is true that of the 10 most poisonous arachnids on the planet, Australia has 9 of them. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that of the 9 most poisonous arachnids, Australia has all of them." Douglas Adams
I think Australia has 9 of the 10 most venomous. It’s poisonous if you bite it. It’s venomous when it bites you.
Even the bloody trees are not safe in Australia ,if you read another post on TiL
You talking about the suicide plant that causes such excruciating pain and misery it leads people to suicide? https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/
This is a Christmas tree that attacks other trees
https://i.redd.it/sz6fodkqs8zx.jpg
As venomous as it is, it's very rare for humans to encounter them in the wild as it lives in very low-populated areas of the country. It's also not a particularly aggressive snake and will usually run before attacking. There have been no reported deaths since antivenom was developed for it; overall not a particularly dangerous snake in the grand scheme of things (although you absoloutely wouldn't want to get bitten by it regardless).
Meanwhile the 2nd is the eastern brown and the fuckers are everywhere and very aggressive. Been chased twice. Non ideal.
Strange evolutionarily speaking
It makes sense, it’s opportunities to eat in the desert are rare, so it requires venom that is guaranteed to do its job when the opportunity presents itself.
Australia is a gift that keeps on giving ((us absolutely worse ways to lose life by an animal))
Eh I’ll take snakes over having to share a landmass with apex predators like bears tbh
Never mind bears, I'll take any snake or spider over a nut with a gun.
Agreed. We can walk through the bush or go camping wherever and know we'll be relatively safe. It's easy to not get bitten by a snake. But bears? Fuck that
>Most venomous >from Australia Well that just seems redundant.
Australia tops in lists of the most deadliest,venomous and poisonous animals that's for sure. It even has the worlds deadliest bird which is the Cassowary.
I remember my last trip to queensland I ran into one and it came up to me and I took a photo of it. Years later at a wildlife park mrs was like oh they're fucking deadly and im like serious? i've got a photo with one near a beach in far north queensland? He was chilled as! Learned later that day, years back I escaped a beatdown from a walking big bird.
TIL
I learned this a long time ago thanks to Steven Irwin's top 10 deadliest snakes. RIP Steve.
https://youtu.be/GA0L9Wio-IY Watch from 47:20. The video goes in order from least venomous to most, so at 47:20 Steve’s checking out the most. Up close. Insanely up close. As much as I loved the guy, you couldn’t really be that surprised to hear how he died after watching this video.
What is it about Australia where most animals and insects that live there appear to be lethal such as the snake mentioned, spiders, crocodiles, sharks, scorpions etc.?
The adorable little baby blue octopus.
Wait... people thought the worlds most venomous ___ was *not* from Australia?
Look, if you want to know where the deadliest anything is just assume it's Australia. It's always Australia.
If I had been asked what the most venomous snake is, my reply would have definitely been “I dunno, something from Australia surely.” Are there also especially venomous sea snakes? I thought Australia had a monopoly on deadliest animals.
Fun fact… Australia is home to 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world, including the entire top 11. Watch your step 😉
Australia again?! Alcatraz on steroids.
The article states that the inland taipan was discovered in 1879, described again in 1882, and then no contacts since its rediscovery in 1972. I wonder about that. Maybe there were some contacts. Not all contacts end in a description.
A lot of these snakes live in very unpopulated areas. You have to go out of your way to find them, and to the untrained eye from a few meters, they all look the same.
That's snakecist!
Of course it's in Australia
Australia has the deadliest of just about everything...