top 10 most dangerous animals

1. Box Jellyfish

The top prize for “The World Most Venomous Animal,” would go to the Box Jellyfish. It has caused at least 5,567 recorded deaths since 1954. Their venom is among the most deadly in the world. It’s toxins attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells. And the worst part of it is that jelly box venom is so overpoweringly painful, that human victims go in shock, drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore. Survivors experience pain weeks after the contact with box jellies.

You have virtually no chance to survive the venomous sting, unless treated immediately. After a sting, vinegar should be applied for a minimum of 30 seconds. Vinegar has acetic acid, which disables the box jelly’s nematocysts that have not yet discharged into the bloodstream (though it will not alleviate the pain). Wearing panty hose while swimming is also a good prevention measure since it can prevent jellies from being able to harm your legs.

Jelly box can be found in the waters around Asia and Australia.

2. King Cobra

The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the world’s longest venomous snake – growing up to 5.6 m (18.5 ft) in length. Ophiophagus, literally means “snake-eater” as it eats other snakes. One single bite of this deadly snake can easily kill a human. This snake is even capable of killing a full-grown Asian Elephant within 3 hours if the larger animal is bitten in a vulnerable area such as the trunk.

It’s venom is not as toxic as other venomous snakes, but King Cobra is capable of injecting 5 times more venom than black mamba and can result in mortality up to 5 times faster than that of the black mamba. It is quite widespread, ranging across South and South-east Asia, living in dense highland forests.

3. Marbled Cone Snail

This little beautiful looking Marbled Cone snail can be as deadly as any other animal on this list. One drop of its venom is so powerful that it can kill more than 20 humans. If you ever happen to be in warm salt water environment (where these snails are often found) and see it, don’t even think of picking it up. Of course, the true purpose of its venom is to catch its prey.

Symptoms of a cone snail sting can start immediately or can be delayed in onset for days. It results in intense pain, swelling, numbness and tingling. Severe cases involve muscle paralysis, vision changes and breathing failure. There is no antivenom. However, only about 30 human deaths have been recorded from cone snail envenomation.

4. Blue-Ringed Octopus

The Blue-Ringed Octopus is very small, only the size of a golf ball, but its venom is so powerful that can kill a human. Actually it carries enough poison to kill 26 adult humans within minutes, and there is no antidote. They are currently recognized as one of the world’s most venomous animals.

Its painless bite may seem harmless, but the deadly neurotoxins begin working immediately resulting in muscular weakness, numbness, followed by a cessation and breathing and ultimately death.

They can be found in tide pools in the Pacific Ocean, from Japan to Australia.

5. Death Stalker Scorpion

Contrarily to the popular belief most of the scorpions are relatively harmless to humans as stings produce only local effects (pain, numbness or swelling). However, the Death Starker Scorpion is highly dangerous species because its venom is a powerful cocktail of neurotoxins which causes an intense and unbearable pain, then fever, followed by coma, convulsions, paralysis and death. Fortunately, while a sting from this scorpion is extremely painful, it would be unlikely to kill a healthy, adult human. Young children, the old, or infirm (with a heart condition) are at the biggest risk.

Death stalker scorpions are spread in North Africa and Middle East.

6. Stonefish

Maybe Stonefish would never win a beauty contest, but it would definitely win the top prize for being “The World Most Venomous Fish”. Its venom causes such a severe pain that the victims of its sting want the affected limb to be amputated. It is described as the worst pain known to man. It is accompanied with possible shock, paralysis, and tissue death. If not given medical attention within a couple of hours It can be fatal to humans.

Stonefish stores its toxins in gruesome-looking spines that are designed to hurt would-be predators.

Stonefish mostly live above the tropic of Capricorn, often found in the shallow tropical marine waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, ranging from the Red Sea to the Queensland Great Barrier Reef.

7. The Brazilian wandering spider

The Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria) or banana spider appears in the Guinness Book of World Records 2007 for the most venomous spider and is the spider responsible for most human deaths.

This spider is believed to have the most potent neurotoxic venom of any living spider. Only 0.006mg (0.00000021oz) is sufficient to kill a mouse. They are also so dangerous because of their wandering nature. They often hide during daytime in highly populated areas inside houses, clothes, boots, and cars.

Its venomous bite causes not only intense pain, the venom of the spider can also cause priapism – uncomfortable erections lasting for many hours that lead to impotence.

8. Inland Taipan

The prize for “The World’s Most Venomous Snake” goes to the Inland Taipan of Australia. Just a single bite from this snake contains enough venom to kill 100 human adults or an army of 250,000 mice. Its venom is at least 200 – 400 times more toxic than a common cobra. The Inland Taiwan’s extremely neurotoxic venom can kill an adult human in as little as 45 minutes. Fortunately this snake is very shy and there have been no documented human fatalities (all known bites were treated with antivenin).

9. Poison Dart Frog

If you ever happen to be running through the rain forests somewhere in Central or South America, do not ever pick up beautiful and colorful frogs – it can be the Poison Dart Frog. This frog is probably the most poisonous animal on earth.The 2 inch long (5cm) golden poison dart frog has enough venom to kill 10 adult humans or 20,000 mice. Only 2 micrograms of this lethal toxin (the amount that fits on the head of a pin) is capable of killing a human or other large mammal. They are called “dart frogs” because indigenous Amerindians’ use of their toxic secretions to poison the tips of their blow-darts. Poison dart frogs keep their poison in their skins and will sicken or kill anybody who touches or eats it.

10. Puffer Fish

Puffer Fish are the second most poisonous vertebrate on earth (the first one is golden dart Frog). The meat of some species is a delicacy in both Japan (as fugu) and Korea (as bok-uh) but the problem is that the skin and certain organs of many puffer fish are very poisonous to humans.

This puffy fish produce rapid and violent death..Puffer’s poisoning causes deadening of the tongue and lips, dizziness, vomiting, rapid heart rate, difficulty breathing, and muscle paralysis. Victims die from suffocation as diaphragm muscles are paralyzed. Most of the victims die after four to 24 hours. There is no known antidote, Most deaths from fugu happen when untrained people catch and prepare the fish.

Atomic bombs

10. The Little Boy Atomic Bomb

You might have heard about this atomic bomb which was dropped by the United States of America on the Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first ever atomic bomb to be dropped on a human population. Little Boy is more like a code name for this project. It is also the second artificially made nuclear explosion in the history of mankind, the first being the trinity tests. More than 100,000 civilians were killed by the explosion of this bomb in a matter of a few seconds.

9. The Fat Man Atomic Bomb       

Fat Man was in fact the code name of this atomic bomb which was yet again used by the United States against Japan. It is also one of the two most devastating atomic bombs to be used in history. Detonated deliberately on the city of Japan, Nagasaki, the bomb had killed more than 50,000 people at the very instant and had injured more than 30,000 civilians. The actual numbers are also believed to be much more, although the U.S authorities never accept it.

8. The Ivy Mike Nuclear Testing

You might have seen or heard about the notorious mushroom cloud which is generated after a nuclear explosion. A similar cloud was also produced after the testing of this thermo nuclear device. The bomb which was used in it was known as a staged fusion bomb. The site which was used in the testing was the area of Enewetak located in the Pacific Ocean among a number of islands. It was purely an atmospheric explosion which was yet again done by the same country.

7. Hurricane Atomic Bomb

Code named as operation Hurricane, this bomb was the first ever atomic device to be used by the United Kingdom. It was tested in the year 1952, making use of a number of plutonium implosion device. The land area which was used for the execution of the bomb was Montebello Islands. In terms of nuclear explosion it was quite similar to the Fat Man Atomic Bomb.

6. The Mark-21 Nuclear Bomb

Produced in the year 1955 by the United States and known as one of the most powerful gravity bomb, the Mark-21 was detonated in the year 1954. It was a part of the nuclear tests that were carried out under the name of Operation Castle. The Mark-21 was nearly 15 feet long and weighed more than 15,000 pounds. The yield of the bomb was nearly 4 megatons. Furthermore, it was only one of the most dangerous atomic and nuclear weapons which were produced at those times.

5. The Mark-36 Nuclear Bomb

Now here we have the bomb which was one of the most heaviest and high yield nuclear bombs ever to be made by the United States. The making of Marl-36 was based on a number of thermo nuclear devices and chain reaction designs. It was so powerful that it was easily able to produce a yield of nearly 10 megatons. The estimated weight of the bomb was nearly 1700 pounds or more. What’s more horrifying is the fact that the makers had modified all the previous Mark-21 bombs into the Mark-36 nuclear designs. Furthermore, a number of variants of the bomb were also produced.

4. The Castle Bravo Hydrogen Bomb

What made this bomb different from all others is the fact that it was the first hydrogen based thermo nuclear bomb to be ever tested. The detonation was carried out in the year 1954 at the Marshall Islands. It is also asserted this bomb was in fact the most powerful nuclear and atomic device ever to be exploded by the United States of America. The yield of this first ever hydrogen bomb was nearly 15000 megatons. Furthermore, a significant radiological contamination was also caused as a result of this testing.

3. B-53 Nuclear Bomb

One of the most high yield bunker buster and nuclear based weapon, the B-53 was developed in times of the cold war. It was manufactured by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Nearly 340 of such bombs were made which remained in service till the year 1997. The design was later on modified into some even more powerful atomic bombs.

2. B-41 Nuclear Bomb

Deployed by the Strategic Air Command, this thermonuclear weapon was tested in the early 1960’s. It was much more powerful than its predecessors weighing more than 25 megatons. It was prepared for the time of the cold war. The fuel which was used in the bomb was lithium-6 enriched and a powerful fission jacket.

1.    The Tsar Bomba

At number 1 we have the Tsar Bomba which is the most powerful atomic bomb ever to be exploded in Human History. It was also named as Kuz’Kina Mat, all because it was made by the Russian Federation. The yield of this nuclear weapon made use of nearly 100 megatons TNT and 50 megatons of yield. The idea here was to carry out a safe detonation which proved to be quite successful. Till now Russia has also produced a number of nuclear weapons having the first name of the Tsar Bomba.