• PetulantBandicoot
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    3 months ago

    That Redback section got me good. Was browsing this article on my phone. Didn’t mind the spiders crawling on the screen, until the one in the bottom right looked like it crawled out from under my hand. Nearly threw my phone away 😮‍💨

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      3 months ago

      There’s also Nationalispoliticus

  • Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    “It doesn’t have mouth parts so essentially it stabs you with this big drinking straw, injects you with a bunch of digestive enzymes, and then sucks it up,” says Professor Fry.

    “It kills its prey by digesting them to death, and it really, really hurts to be digested to death.”

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      3 months ago

      That might be because the wrong snake venom will just kill you. The stuff listed in this article will make you beg for someone to kill you.