Which snake is the most venomous on earth?

Answer 1

The Fierce Snake (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), also known as the Small Scaled Snake or Inland Taipan is a highly venomous snake of Australia, notorious for having the most potent venom of any land species of snake in the world, making it the world's most venomous snake. The strength of theire venom was checked on the sample mice and 50% of them were killed within 24 hours.

A single bite from the Fierce Snake contains enough venom to kill as many as 100 human adults, or 250,000 mice. The fierce snake's average venom yield is 44 mg, with a 110-mg record yield. It is 50 times more poisonous than the Indian Cobra.It has extremely neurotoxic venom. With an LD50("Lethal Dose, 50%") of 0.01 mg/kg, it is about 10 times as venomous as a Mojave rattlesnake and 750 times as venomous as a common cobra.

Fierce Snakes are known to live in holes, and feed on small rodents . Though unaggressive they will strike if provoked, however, injecting their incomparably toxic venom.

Although known as the most venomous snake in the world, there have been no documented human fatalities from the Fierce Snake (Inland Taipan). All known bites have been treated using antivenom.

Answer 2

There really are two ways in which this question might be answered - which venom is the most toxic if equal volumes are compared, and which is the most dangerous to humans or other animals. The first of these questions can be given a fairly definite answer, and usually it turns out to be one of the smaller and less well-known snakes that has the most potent venom. The second question is almost impossible to answer because there are too many variables involved. A snake can control the amount of venom it injects, even striking without injecting any venom at all, at least in some cases. The potency of the venom and amount injected will also vary with how many times and how recently the snake has used some of its venom. The site of the bite will affect the dangerousness of it, and people vary in their sensitiveness to the venom. About the only statistic that can be used to determine how dangerous the snake is, is how often it bites a human and what the death rate from the bite is. By this measure the Indian cobra is, or at least was not too long ago, the most dangerous. This results from the high population of India, the commonness of the cobra, and the fact that so many Indians are barefooted.

Answer 3

Inland Taipan is the most toxic land snake in the world, with a lethal dose estimated to be fifty times that of the Indian cobra.
Inland Taipan
Oxyuranus microlepidotus

Inland Taipan has most toxic venom. Maximum yield recorded (for
one bite) is 110mg. That would porbably be enough to kill over 100 people or 250,000 mice.

Although the Inland Taipan has the most potent venom of any land snake on earth. It is usually quite shy in nature. Taipan venom is overwhelmingly neurotoxic and thus nervous system is severely affected. Symptoms include vomiting, flaccid paralysis, and eventual respiratory paralysis.

The back, sides and tail may be buff-grey to greyish brown, buff-brown, brown or reddish dark brown. The round-Snouted head and neck are usually darker than he body (glossy black in winter, dark brown in summer). The eye is of average size with a blackish brown iris.

The Inland Taipan shelters in rat burrows (probably having eaten the original owners), in deep soil cracks and sink holes, and sometimes in rock crevices and deep fissures. It feeds on small to medium-sized mammals. The extremely potent venom acts so quickly that the snake can hold the prey until it succumbs without itself suffering injury. In times of plenty, the Inland Taipan can become quite fat; during prolonged drought, it can starve and become remarkably thin.

It is usually most active on the surface in the early half of the morning when it bask. In cooler weather, it is also active in the afternoon; in hot weather it becomes nocturnal.

There are about 140 species of snakes in Australia. The most poisonous land snake is the inland tiapan found in south-western Queensland and north-eastern South Australia. Tiger snakes, death adders, copperheads, brown snakes, and red-bellied black snakes are all also highly venomous.

I also sent an email to find out if any of the sea snakes are more venomous, but this is it for me. Good luck on your research.

Answer 4

Sea snakes. By orders of magnitude. Did you mean literally " on earth ", or on the planet. Remember; deadly and venomous are two different things.

Answer 5

It is the inland taipan of Australian (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) . Their venom is registered as 50.0 toxicity compared to other snake venoms

Answer 6

well the Hoop Snake is feared by all tourist when they enter enter australia but the australia inland and coastal taipans are the most venomous snakes on land however more peopl die from black mamba bites. seasnakes are deadlier but less people die from those

Answer 7

king cobra is the most venomous snake in the world,
then it is the normal cobras like spitting cobra, cape cobra,,,,

after these snake the black mamba from south africa is the venomous snake in the world

after black mamba, the austalian typan is the venomous snake in the world

Answer 8

Inland Taipan

http://www.manbir-online.com/htm2/snake.22.htm

Answer 9

sea snakes off of austailia

but they're not very aggressive

Answer 10

because king cobra is the largest viper. it has venom more than other. so when u bitten it doesnt need more than 30minute to kill u.