That is pretty creepy!
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Why are all the craziest and scariest animals always from Australia?
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I vaguely remember seeing Steve Irwin trying to find the top 10 most dangerous snakes in the entire world, and he only had to leave Australia for 1 of those.
Correction. ALL TEN live in Australia.
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From Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams.
â There is in Melbourne a man who probably knows more about poisonous snakes than anyone else on earth. his name is Dr Struan Sutherland, and he has devoted his entire life to a study of venom.
::snip
âSo, youâre going to Komodo. Well, I donât know why you want to do that, but I suppose you have your reasons. There are fifteen different types of snakes on Komodo, and half of them are poisonous. The only potentially deadly ones are the Russellâs viper, the bamboo viper, and the Indian cobra.
âThe Indian cobra is the fifteenth deadliest snake in the world, and all the other fourteen are here in Australia. Thatâs why itâs so hard for me to find time to get on with my hydroponics, with all these snakes all over the place.â
Also, about the post by friend @Brina 2 days ago, I couldnât find the quote then (my niece has my copy of the book - I think forever) -
â Scorpion fish, stone fish, sea snakes. Much more poisonous than anything on land. Get stung by a stone fish and the pain alone can kill you. People drown themselves to stop the pain.â
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Thatâs my favorite Douglas Adams book. Far funnier than any of his works of fiction. The part about the German tourists had me on the floor.
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This large den houses hundreds (likely thousands) of Prairie Rattlesnakes
I see a snakeâs skin, but no snakes.
Watch wild Western Rattlesnakes go about their day
I see a snake sleeping, not going about its day.
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Maybe that snake is named Hercules.
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Yah, nothing happens until something happens.
Snakes just be that way.
Check out the highlights reels.
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Iâm just saying the videos do not live up to their descriptions.
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AwwwâŚtheyâre asleep! 
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Whoâsa little cutie? Yousa little cutie!
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Looks like something Jim Henson would come up with.
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Indeed!
Deep sea anglerfish have trouble finding each other for mating (It is a very big, very dark ocean). To compensate for this, they make sure they never part after meeting. When a male finds a female, he bites into her skin, and releases an enzyme that digests the skin of his mouth and her body, fusing the pair down to the blood-vessel level. The male becomes dependent on the female host for survival by receiving nutrients via their shared circulatory system, and provides sperm to the female in return. Scientists studying anglerfish were initially perplexed by all of their collected samples being apparently females until they later discovered that what they thought were tiny parasites on the females were actually embedded males.
Edit: I now see that youâve already covered this lesson!
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This type of stuff is why I couldnât play Subnautica. I honestly tried but deep sea type stuff scares me way more than I ever expected. Even in completely fictional, no actual danger, video game form.
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