Official Damn Nature, You Scary Thread

[rkell87]

Blanket Octopus

hunts and dismembers Portuguese man o' wars so he can whip creatures with the tentacles.....for fun


Tarantula Hawk

hunts tarantulas to use as baby food


Tentacled Sea Snakes
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skip to 1 minute.

uses fishes automatic flight response against them getting them to swim right into its mouth


Zombie Bug(tree weta)
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has a special protein in their blood that prevents water from freezing, allowing them to go into a deep freeze and still have their blood flowing when they wake back up, their brains and hearts actually completely die when frozen, then somehow recover good as new when thawed out.

Viperfish

those fangs are clear, so none of its prey can see them coming, and lures smaller fish with a fake light 5,000 feet below the surface

Gulper Eel

Gulper eels live as far down as 10,000 feet below the surface, can swallow larger fish whole. They lack many parts that normal fish enjoy, like many major bones, a swim bladder, scales, sacrificing all those things for the ability to consume anything that swims by them. They also have a bioluminescent organ on their tails to attract prey

Scorpionfly

nuff said

Darwin's bark spider

webbing is 10 times stronger than Kevlar and a whopping 25 times stronger than steel. Oh, and it also easily beats out titanium, tungsten

 

[SaltwaterServr]

The fish is smaller than a dollar bill. There are far nastier things closer to the surface to worry about than them. The bugs need to meet Mr. Remington 1100 with 2/4 duck loads.

Damn Nature, you dead!

 

[rkell87]

The fish is smaller than a dollar bill. There are far nastier things closer to the surface to worry about than them. The bugs need to meet Mr. Remington 1100 with 2/4 duck loads.

Damn Nature, you dead!

 

[rkell87]

BTW the tarantula hawk has the second most painful sting in the world

 

[SaltwaterServr]

BTW the tarantula hawk has the second most painful sting in the world

Gunshot ant being the first?

 

[rkell87]

Gunshot ant being the first?

bullet ant

 

[kmp77]

 

[rkell87]

Box Jellyfish

can kill you within 4 minutes without antidote


Brazilian Wandering Spider

one of the most aggressive spiders in the world, Every bite is twice as potent as the black widow's--will result in excruciating pain. This is due to the fact that, aside from the neurotoxin, their bites contain high levels of serotonin. While the neurotoxin is busy shutting down your primary functions, that serotonin is heading straight for your brain. Once there, it'll cause intense tremors throughout your body and incredible pain.


Deathstalker

six different fast-acting neurotoxins from a deathstalker is meant to completely immobilize its prey, It causes several deaths annually. If you're a healthy, strapping adult you can probably make it out alive. Kids, the elderly and geek types whose bodies have atrophied from years of video games, won't be so lucky.


Golden Dart Frog

"Currently no effective antidote exists for the treatment of batrachotoxin poisoning."
So unless you're leimadophis epinephelus, a breed of snake that can consume the frogs, you will probably die


Geographic Cone Snail

fires a cocktail of toxins that are lanced into your body by a harpoon. Cone snails can fire off those harpoons in any direction and they use them to paralyze fish (at which point they then eat them--alive). Fortunately, you're too big for the cone snail to eat. Unfortunately, the toxins still affect you in a terrible way. "Paresthesias of the lips and tongue are followed by sialorrhea, sweating, headache, weakness, lethargy, ataxia, incoordination, tremor, paralysis, cyanosis, aphonia, dysphagia, seizures, dyspnea, bronchorrhea, bronchospasm, respiratory failure, coma, and hypotension. Gastroenteric symptoms are often severe and include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Cardiac arrhythmias may precede complete respiratory failure and cardiovascular collapse." There is no cure for the cone snail's venom, and treatment is simply based on how long your rescuers can keep you alive


Blue-Ringed Octopus

The beak of the golf ball-sized bottom feeder is strong enough to pierce through wetsuit gloves and give the handler a fatal dose of venom. You probably won't feel the toxins, at first. That's only because you'll be completely paralyzed. The venom from these tiny sea creatures is created by the bacteria that live in their air sacs. The deadly cocktail contains ten toxins in all, designed to leave you paralyzed and yet completely aware of your surroundings. If your rescuers realize that you've been bitten by a blue-ringed octopus (whose venom is powerful enough to kill 26 human beings within a couple of minutes), rescue breathing may keep you alive.
But if no one is aware of what happened, you'll probably just appear dead to the world.

 

[Rynie]

Brazilian Wandering Spider


one of the most aggressive spiders in the world, Every bite is twice as potent as the black widow's--will result in excruciating pain. This is due to the fact that, aside from the neurotoxin, their bites contain high levels of serotonin. While the neurotoxin is busy shutting down your primary functions, that serotonin is heading straight for your brain. Once there, it'll cause intense tremors throughout your body and incredible pain.

Wouldn't that be like complete ecstasy before you die??

 

[rkell87]

Wouldn't that be like complete ecstasy before you die??

Serotonin's presence in insect venoms and plant spines serves to cause pain, which is a side effect of serotonin injection. Serotonin is produced by pathogenic amoebas, and its effect on the gut causes diarrhea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin

 

[cowboy_ron]

Interesting stuff here guys

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Instant sterility. Barfs.

 

[silverbear]

Instant sterility. Barfs.

Who are you kidding, you know you'd hit it...

 

[trickblue]

 

[MC KAos]

and i was scared of the snakes around denton creek! sheesh

 

[vta]

 

[vta]

I'm sure the chances of me ever stumbling across such a thing are next to none, but still these things bother me.

There's a video on Youtube of a giant centipede killing a snake.

 

[Dallas]

These talking animals give me nightmares.

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[YosemiteSam]

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[vta]

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