Australia's most painful creatures

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• Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most painful has to be any member of the liberalis politicus family.

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  • legios@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s also Nationalispoliticus

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• PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That Redback section got me good. Was browsing this article on my phone. Didn’t mind the spiders crawling on the screen, until the one in the bottom right looked like it crawled out from under my hand. Nearly threw my phone away 😮‍💨

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• princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “It doesn’t have mouth parts so essentially it stabs you with this big drinking straw, injects you with a bunch of digestive enzymes, and then sucks it up,” says Professor Fry.

  “It kills its prey by digesting them to death, and it really, really hurts to be digested to death.”

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• galoisghost@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No politicians? I declare shenanigans.

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• pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Australia has the most venomous snakes in the world, and none made the list.

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  • CopernicusQwark@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That might be because the wrong snake venom will just kill you. The stuff listed in this article will make you beg for someone to kill you.

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