The Sun
SOME creatures on this Earth could kills you in a matter of minutes and sometimes even seconds.
We’ve rounded up five of the deadliest animals on Earth and some look too innocent to be this lethal.
Blue sea dragon
Blue sea dragons are sea slugs with a very painful and sometimes lethal sting.
They can eat and store the venom of the jellyfish-like Portuguese man o-war.
This can make their finger-like extremities extremely painful to touch.
Sometimes the creatures don’t sting but when they do it can result in pain, vomiting, diarrhoea.
A sting from a blue dragon can be so powerful it could kill you.
Salt water crocodile
You probably wouldn’t be alive for much longer after a salt water crocodile clamps its jaws down on you.
They can grow up to 23 feet in length, weigh more than a ton and kill more people than sharks every year.
A bite from a salt water crocodile can press down 3,700 pounds per square inch of pressure on your body.
That’s a very deadly bite in comparison to humans which use about 200 pounds per square inch of pressure when eating meat.
Puffer fish
Any Simpsons fan may remember an episode which sees Homer convinced he’s going to die after eating puffer fish.
The spiky sea creatures contain a dangerous neurotoxin in their skin, liver, kidneys and muscle tissue.
If ingested, this poison could kill you after anywhere between 20 minutes to 24 hours.
Box jellyfish
A powerful sting from a box jellyfish could kill you in five minutes.
A lot of the species will just give you a painful sting but some can paralyse you and stop your heart.
Poison dart frog
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