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S P K Y ANIMALS TOXIC

TERRORS

Lionfish
These fish grow up to 47 cm (18 ⁄2 in) long.
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Their spines, which can reach up to 9 cm • A marine cone snail
(3 ⁄2 in) in length, deliver toxic venom to delivers a cocktail of toxins
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prey through puncture wounds. that can paralyse fish. It
CLAWS Sea urchin is estimated that one snail
has enough venom to kill

The body of a sea urchin can be up to 700 people.
10 cm (4 in) across, but its spines
grow as long as 20 cm (8 in).
• The blue-ringed octopus
can injure or even kill a person
with just one bite. Its venom
Porcupine is 1,000 times more powerful
Some porcupines can grow up to 90 cm than cyanide, and has enough
(35 in) long, while the longest quills reach venom in its saliva to
51 cm (20 in) in length – more than kill 26 people.
half the length of the animal.
• A golden poison frog
LOTS OF LEGS through its toxic skin to kill
secretes enough poison

Three-toed sloth 10 people. It gets the poison
from invertebrates it eats.
10 cm (4 in) Its only predator is a snake
A centipede has hundreds The millipede species that is resistant to the poison.
AMAZING of legs, and none more so than to 192 segments with a
Illacme plenipes has up
Himantarium gabrielis, with
ANTLERS up to 354 legs. Found in the total of 768 legs. Found in • The Australian box jellyfish
Mediterranean, this species grows
California, USA, it grows
has one of the most deadly
up to 22 cm (9 ⁄2 in) in length.
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All centipedes have two legs up to 3 cm (1 ⁄4 in) long. venoms in the world. It
All millipedes have four
contains toxins that attack
per body segment. legs per body segment. the heart, nervous system,
and skin – causing blisters
on contact, if not death.

MONSTER

MOUTH

The bowhead whale has the largest
mouth in the animal kingdom, measuring
up to 6 m (20 ft) wide – more than the
length of three people.

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