What is the most venomous snake on Earth?

Answer 1

The Fierce Snake - found in Australia. very deadly, and very quick.

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

Check out this chart http://www.venomdoc.com/LD50/LD50men.html

It shows the 'LD50' of several snakes under different conditions. The trouble is that there is no one absolute standrd for toxicity. We use a method that works in laboratories, but we do not know for sure how well it translates to the real world.

In the lab, we line up a hundred mice of the same weight, and find how much venom it takes to kill off 50 of them. (This is oversimplified, but the basic technique.) We inject the venom into a muscle and measure it. in another batch, we inject it into the bloodstream, another batch gets it in the abdomen, and another batch gets it under the skin.

Where it goes makes a difference. It might make a difference if the venom is 'just out of the snake' fresh or from a syringe. it mike make a difference if the snake's brain is controlling the dose and attack site rather than a lab researcher doing it.

Nonetheless, you can look at these charts. We usually use the 'subcutaneous' to represent most snake bites. The SMALLER the ld50, the more dangerous it is. On this and most other charts we have records for, the Inland Taipan (Fierce Snake) is the most venomous.

If you want info on which snake has the MOST venom, kills the most people, has the shortest time between bite and death for a 150lb human, etc., you need to ask a different question.

Answer 4

The Taipan.

http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1122-the-most-lethal-land-snake

Answer 5

"Taipans are large (up to 3 metres in length), fast, highly venomous Australian snakes, one of which, the Fierce Snake, has the most toxic venom of any land species worldwide. The taipan was named by Donald Thompson after the word used by the Wik Mungkan Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.[1]

There exist two species: the common taipan, and the less common inland taipan (also known as the Fierce Snake and small-scaled snake) (Oxyuranus microlepidotus). The common taipan is broken up into two subspecies, the mainland coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus) and the Papuan taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus canni) which is native to the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. Their diet consists primarily of small rodents, especially rats, and bandicoots.

The coastal taipan is usually pale to dark brown in colour, fading to a lateral cream, although juveniles are lighter in colour. The Papuan taipan is black or purplish-gray, with a copper-coloured stripe on its back. They are easily found in sugar fields due to an abundance of rats - their main food source.


[edit] Venom and toxicity
The inland taipan is often considered to be the most venomous land snake. With an LD50 of 0.03 mg/kg, it is about 7 times as venomous as a Mojave rattlesnake and 15 times as venomous as a common cobra. Lethal dose calculations are made on mice, so they have a murine bias. The bias is emphasised in this species of snake, as it is specialised to feed on rodents. Calculated LD50 values might not be applicable to non-mammalian species, and may even be inaccurate for mammals other than mice, or other rodents. The venom from a single bite of the inland taipan might be potent enough to kill about 250,000 mice, or the mouse equivalent of 100 men. This species generally lives in remote and sparsely inhabited areas. Like most snakes, inland taipans are generally shy and will usually not bite unless they feel threatened. No fatalities have been attributed to this species, and all known bites have been to people who keep them in captivity or actively seek them out in the wild.

The common taipan is the third-most venomous snake on Earth and arguably the second-largest venomous snake in Australia (the first arguably being the King Brown, Pseudechis australis). The danger posed by the coastal taipan was brought to Australian public awareness in 1950, when young herpetologist Kevin Budden was fatally bitten in capturing the first specimen available for antivenom research. The common taipan is often considered to be one of the deadliest species in the world. Mortality rates without treatment are second only to the black mamba, nearing 100%. However, antivenom treatment is highly effective."

Answer 6

Sea snake venom is generally more toxic and dangerous than venom from land snakes.[2] However, sea snakes have a less efficient venom injection apparatus as compared to land snakes, vipers or cobras. [citation needed]

Answer 7

Naomi Campbell

Answer 8

Osama Bin Laden

Answer 9

poisonous snakes

Answer 10

me... p**s me off and il attack worse than any snake!!! il bite if i have to.................. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, i mean ssssssssssssssssssss