After attacking, the dragon may let their prey wander off. But they don’t always kill their victims on the spot. They’re carnivores, using their saw-like serrated teeth to attack deer, water buffalo, and even people, as well as small prey. Image source: David Haring / Duke Lemur Center / Wikimedia Commons.Įnormous monitor lizards that live in Indonesia, komodo dragons can grow up to 3 metres long, can weigh almost 100 kilograms, and look like they walked straight out of Jurassic Park. So cute it hurts: the venomous slow loris. The pain can last days, weeks or even months and is resistant to morphine. While a stab from a platypus spur won’t kill you (and it’s not known for sure how venomous the spur is to other platypuses), it’s reported to be excruciatingly painful. The spur is thought to be mainly used in fighting off other males competing for a mate. It’s rare for people to be spurred and there have been no reported human deaths by platypus. Mature males have a spur on their back legs which is hooked up to venom glands. There are even some venomous mammals, such as shrews the notoriously cute slow loris (the world’s only venomous primate, it stores venom in an elbow patch, which it mixes with saliva to produce a venomous bite) and the Australian platypus.
sea creatures like sea anemones, jellyfish, sea snails, fish and octopuses.lizards, including the Gila monster of the United States and Mexico the Mexican beaded lizard and the Komodo dragon.several orders of insects, including bees, wasps and ants.Spiders and snakes aren't the only venomous creatures in town. Others look so cute and cuddly it’s hard to believe they could hurt anyone. Some of them are small, commonplace visitors to our garden-flying insects to which we barely give a second thought. The range of animals which have venom as part of their arsenal is much broader than spiders and snakes. But, while these animals are certainly venomous, they’re really just the tip of the iceberg. A rearing funnel web spider, a striking brown snake … these are the kind of images that spring to mind when we talk about venomous animals.
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