You Won’t Believe What the Most Venomous Animal in the World Is

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  • Опубликовано: 24 май 2024
  • You're thinking a deadly viper or threatening scorpion, right? No, the most venomous animal in the world is the cone snail. So how powerful is this snail's venom? How many humans can cone snail venom kill? The deadliness of this little snail may surprise you.
    00:00 Cone snails
    01:24 Hunting tactics
    02:02 Venom glands
    03:12 Sting symptoms
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  • @StamfordBridge
    @StamfordBridge 3 месяца назад +33

    As a cone snail, I appreciate the effort here to learn about our community.

    • @xraylife
      @xraylife 3 месяца назад +1

      I really appreciate the efforts to explain what is in side the Nanocapsules in your Jab.

    • @BluntVille
      @BluntVille 3 месяца назад +1

      you kill small prey why so venomous sir? just incase a whale takes a bit? lol

    • @xraylife
      @xraylife 3 месяца назад +1

      @@BluntVille Because its a snail and very slow moving so it needs to drop its prey exactly where it found it, otherwise if it swam away even a few meters the snail might never catch it up.

  • @Arvidien
    @Arvidien 3 месяца назад +43

    If it's a cone, leave it alone.

    • @srobeck77
      @srobeck77 3 месяца назад +4

      Or put ice cream on top and have a tasty summer treat

    • @cliffordbowman6777
      @cliffordbowman6777 3 месяца назад +1

      Learned about them on the old Hawaii 5-0 thought they were fos. Guess I Was

  • @M_Ladd
    @M_Ladd 3 месяца назад +8

    I didn’t know what the animal was so i asked my husband if he knew. He said he had no idea but made me a bet that it was from Australia. Now i have to do things to him tonight. It's ok, I do enjoy it and love him so.

  • @jfh667
    @jfh667 3 месяца назад +14

    FYI : m/s is a unit of speed, m/s2 is an acceleration.

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 2 месяца назад +1

      It's obviously the acceleration here...

    • @jfh667
      @jfh667 2 месяца назад +1

      @@DR_1_1 Yes, and it was expressed in m/s, a unit of speed.

  • @rhetoric5173
    @rhetoric5173 2 года назад +4

    Gold content this channel should blow up

  • @vinn3327
    @vinn3327 2 месяца назад +2

    My sister had a cone shell in her salt water aquarium but not with the little devel inside ... Beautiful pattern

  • @leemday5731
    @leemday5731 8 месяцев назад +15

    As Bishop said in Aliens ....you have to admire its purity.

    • @BradiKal61
      @BradiKal61 3 месяца назад +1

      Ash. In ALIEN. "I admire its purity"

    • @leemday5731
      @leemday5731 3 месяца назад

      @@BradiKal61 Thanks for the correction your right !

  • @R3LI2UI
    @R3LI2UI 3 месяца назад +8

    Back in the day stationed in the East China Sea, we collected these while diving; beautiful shells!

    • @johnholmes6897
      @johnholmes6897 3 месяца назад +2

      Agreed! We did the same thing when we found abandoned shells. We would hit them with a buffer wheel and jewlers Rouge it would look like glass. And we would sell them. His money for kids

    • @TheImpressionist235
      @TheImpressionist235 3 месяца назад

      This snail is although a member of the CCP.

  • @ByahingJoPH
    @ByahingJoPH 4 месяца назад +105

    Kuya kim brought me here

  • @guilhermeleite3470
    @guilhermeleite3470 2 года назад +19

    Super interesting! Hope I’ll never see one of these

  • @TheOldgeezah
    @TheOldgeezah 3 месяца назад +16

    The units of speed are metres per second NOT Metres per second squared (which is acceleration)

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 2 месяца назад +1

      They are talking about the acceleration, though.

    • @TheOldgeezah
      @TheOldgeezah 2 месяца назад

      @@DR_1_1I quote the narrator who said..."at speeds of up to 400,000 metres per second squared." she referred to speed (velocity) but quoted the units for acceleration!!!!!

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 2 месяца назад

      @@TheOldgeezah The error is to call it speed, again, it's obviously about acceleration here, not only the unit, but also the number itself!
      People frequently say speed, or fast, to say that a car for example accelerates faster than another...

  • @witpickles
    @witpickles 3 месяца назад +5

    Without watching, I'm gonna guess it's in the ocean around Australia.

  • @raysilvern
    @raysilvern 2 года назад +16

    These guys are amazing!

  • @DrGaryGreen
    @DrGaryGreen 3 месяца назад +3

    I learned this on Hawaii 5-0 back in the early 70s.

  • @danielmcnally8639
    @danielmcnally8639 3 месяца назад +2

    Remember that really neat Conus textile I kept in a marine aquarium in my kitchen? I loved watching it kill and eat tiny tilapia and Nassarius papillosus!

  • @davidarbuckle7236
    @davidarbuckle7236 3 месяца назад +3

    Wow. This is a formidable predator.

  • @guamflyer1
    @guamflyer1 3 месяца назад +11

    You forgot Guam...we got em all over the reefs and shallows

  • @thetruthfornow6045
    @thetruthfornow6045 2 года назад +14

    These snails have a pharmacy full of drugs in their system.

  • @ipfreely9245
    @ipfreely9245 2 года назад +15

    I'm really glad their not found in the garden, protecting my cabbages would be so dangerous.
    Btw please don't tell me people eat these, Origins of Food..don't need these suckers tossed up in a salad! 👍😂
    Great video. 👍

    • @borneoenthusiast3341
      @borneoenthusiast3341 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah....many people in ASEAN crafting food from this cone snail....

    • @ipfreely9245
      @ipfreely9245 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@borneoenthusiast3341 Omg humans eat anything, except me I'm a fussy eater..I eat with my eyes only. 🤢🤮

    • @robertveith6383
      @robertveith6383 3 месяца назад +1

      * they're = they are

    • @ipfreely9245
      @ipfreely9245 3 месяца назад +1

      @@robertveith6383 Sorry Miss 👍😲

  • @jakollee
    @jakollee 3 месяца назад +2

    Why is the speed at which it shoots out its radula given in meters per second squared? Doesn’t that imply an acceleration or increase in speed?

  • @manosparavida3551
    @manosparavida3551 2 месяца назад +2

    Via reading and research I was always led to believe that the most toxic animals on the planet were a certain species of Arrow Dart Poison Frog and the Blue Ringed Octopus and a hefty mention goes to the Stonefish.

  • @johnnyragadoo2414
    @johnnyragadoo2414 3 месяца назад +2

    How fast? Meters/sec^2 isn't a velocity, it's an acceleration and is apparently what cone snails can achieve. It sounds like the velocity achieved from that acceleration is more like 25 m/s, which is pretty awesome. That's fast enough to travel an inch in a millisecond, more or less.

  • @henthust9784
    @henthust9784 3 месяца назад +3

    I still believe the Box Jelly-fish is the most venomous.

    • @willem2099
      @willem2099 3 месяца назад +1

      So does everyone else. This fellow is like nr 5. The 700 people is wrong too and so is the speed as they use an acceleration measurement as a speed measurement which is wrong. I literally reported the video for fake info :D It's just such bullshit.

  • @boydmaddocks838
    @boydmaddocks838 3 месяца назад +21

    The box jellyfish is still the most venomous, roughly 100 times more venom than the painted cone snail, which is rated the deadliest cone.

    • @BAMS-lz7zn
      @BAMS-lz7zn 2 месяца назад

      That comment makes no sense it's come snail is the the most powerful poison.

    • @boydmaddocks838
      @boydmaddocks838 2 месяца назад

      @@BAMS-lz7zn this comment makes no sense

    • @BAMS-lz7zn
      @BAMS-lz7zn 2 месяца назад

      @@boydmaddocks838 they said on the video that the cone snail is the most poisonous of all sea life and you said it is the box jellyfish and it's not.

    • @boydmaddocks838
      @boydmaddocks838 2 месяца назад +1

      @@BAMS-lz7zn it may come as a shock to you, however, the vid is wrong. The most venomous creature in the ocean, is the box jellyfish, possibly the irukangy is more venomous, we just don’t know enough about them yet. ( the irukangy is a jellyfish, the size of you thumb nail & has caused a couple of deaths to date )

    • @BAMS-lz7zn
      @BAMS-lz7zn 2 месяца назад +1

      @@boydmaddocks838 it's not the most poisonous it's the cone snail it's venom is the most deadliest. The box jellyfish has the most kills but it's not the most poisonous.

  • @ahmedabdullah8327
    @ahmedabdullah8327 3 месяца назад +6

    400,000 meters per sec squared!! WTF!

    • @IDF_Strong
      @IDF_Strong 2 месяца назад

      A simple conversion equals 894,774.52 mph. I call BS.

  • @wayneparkinson4558
    @wayneparkinson4558 3 месяца назад +1

    Exactly how fast was that dart in m.p.h please .Was it as fast as the bolt for he was faster than any man?

  • @ohlipbench
    @ohlipbench 3 месяца назад +1

    Huh! As I remember when I was young we gathered this type of snail. Cooked as side dish and ate way back home.

  • @Renville80
    @Renville80 2 дня назад

    I’ve heard these referred to as cigarette snails. Get stung, you have just enough time for one last cigarette before the fatal heart attack.

  • @alvinnepomuceno6083
    @alvinnepomuceno6083 4 месяца назад

    Kasalanan to ni Kuya Kim, na curious ako hahaha

  • @user-my9nc5wb3y
    @user-my9nc5wb3y 3 месяца назад +7

    Um… I ate those well we ate those, living in an island surrounded with corals a lot of seafoods everywhere. First you boil it then take the shell meat using a pin there’s a needle like thing inside the meat which has its poison take it away and then you can eat it. There’s a lot of poisonous shell we tried them but we can handle them properly by throwing up or by immediate vomiting.

  • @itwoznotme
    @itwoznotme 3 месяца назад +2

    so speed is measured in meter per second squared?
    steal some stock footage, apply mindlessly bland voiceover and chuck it out there. and, if in doubt about any information, just makes something up that sounds cool.

  • @Schlumpf62
    @Schlumpf62 7 месяцев назад +1

    Ziemlich geil,wie diese Schnecken Tiere einfach lahm legen und dann in ihren Magen ziehen.Ob die Beute wohl aus der Betäubung erwacht und alles ist zu spät...?😯🧐👍👍👍

  • @Synfulz
    @Synfulz 3 месяца назад +6

    Lived in Okinawa for 2 years, these shells were prevalent in the waters. I only found one cone snail in my times of snorkeling. You need to pick it up at the fat end.

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 3 месяца назад

      There's no safe place to pick them up. They can "harpoon" you regardless of how or where you pick them up.

    • @DR_1_1
      @DR_1_1 2 месяца назад

      I saw my first cones in Thailand this year, as well as a couple of giant tritons!
      And also got some jellyfish stings... couldn't see anything though, just pain!

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 2 месяца назад +1

      It seems someone has reported my VALID comment in this thread so I'll repeat what I said... THERE IS NO PLACE ON A CONE SHELL THAT YOU CAN PICK IT UP AND AVOID THE HARPOON.
      The OP is wrong. Do not pick up a cone shell.
      Stop reporting valid comments. In doing so you are not only lying, but you are placing people in potential danger.

  • @johnholmes6897
    @johnholmes6897 3 месяца назад

    Cone snails are awesome.

  • @fitzyholden1036
    @fitzyholden1036 3 месяца назад

    And as I learnt where I grew up, trust no shell. They would also move into cowrie shells.

  • @tonianderson8726
    @tonianderson8726 Месяц назад

    Reason number seven hundred fifty eleven why Australia is off my bucket list 😮

  • @jdrmanmusiqking
    @jdrmanmusiqking 3 месяца назад

    2:00 dang did its thingy fall off??

  • @claudelecomte-me4uc
    @claudelecomte-me4uc 2 месяца назад

    What a Wonderful World!

  • @zachariavallickad7264
    @zachariavallickad7264 3 месяца назад +1

    Necessity is the mother of venom.

  • @Clearlight201
    @Clearlight201 3 месяца назад +2

    metres per second squared is a measure of acceleration not speed.
    I don't think their venom is going to be accelerating anywhere.
    Great video though, thank you!

    • @rudgemeister
      @rudgemeister 3 месяца назад

      Once again, check your work before you publish. Or maybe Crazy creatures and its audience don't care?

  • @brotherdon007
    @brotherdon007 3 месяца назад +5

    I always was under the impression the blue ringed octopus was the deadliest in the world, look it up !!!

  • @AbbeyOmisol
    @AbbeyOmisol 4 месяца назад +1

    2:18 I am pretty sure it was a goose.

  • @cynthiagonzalez658
    @cynthiagonzalez658 3 месяца назад

    Philippine snail.
    There was a Filipino scientist who had a research project in that in California somewhere..

  • @user-ul6dc4qc4j
    @user-ul6dc4qc4j 3 месяца назад

    I collected a few of these shells from Diego Garcia for my kids

  • @jayareestilloso252
    @jayareestilloso252 4 месяца назад

    In philipines there's a lot of shell like that and it's very dangerous

  • @bmunson76
    @bmunson76 3 месяца назад +1

    1:58 ..400,000 meters per second squared??…What?…No waaay

  • @MikeBanks2003
    @MikeBanks2003 3 месяца назад

    Not a cone snail, it is a sand fly that lives in Fjordland, New Zealand. It is tiny, but its venom, were it able to deliver a tiny amount, would be fatal. However, it is so small that the amount of venom is not fatal.

  • @arvindtoolooa
    @arvindtoolooa 3 месяца назад

    How true is this?

  • @hihellokitty85
    @hihellokitty85 3 месяца назад +1

    Real Life: Male Worms Catfished by Female Snails...

  • @Willchannel90
    @Willchannel90 8 месяцев назад

    Cone snail is friendly, but never like become near extinction.

  • @arfa9601
    @arfa9601 9 месяцев назад +10

    It’s so dangerous they measure its speed in meters per second squared😂

  • @heruapocalypse2021
    @heruapocalypse2021 3 месяца назад +1

    They have a harpoon like needle inside that tube stem.

  • @bagdadskilopov7757
    @bagdadskilopov7757 3 месяца назад +1

    Fentanyl Snail.💀

  • @cookinitmax
    @cookinitmax 3 месяца назад

    Just when you thought you knew you don’t A snail of all things to be the deadliest.

  • @pimmer99
    @pimmer99 3 месяца назад +1

    400,000 m/s squared is 533 times the speed of light.

  • @theresahignett3576
    @theresahignett3576 2 месяца назад

    I thought the most venomous animal was the box jellyfish

  • @hayabusaaaaaa2842
    @hayabusaaaaaa2842 4 месяца назад +1

    Nandito ako dahil sa explained ni kuya kim

  • @TheMegatron673
    @TheMegatron673 Год назад +2

    what about the death stalker scorpion?

    • @TotallyNoCat
      @TotallyNoCat 8 месяцев назад +2

      Not even close to this snail 🐌

  • @chrispickett3092
    @chrispickett3092 3 месяца назад

    Cone snails. They're also trying to develope pain killer from the venom of these beautiful yet potentially deadly creatures.

  • @j_o_v_z6627
    @j_o_v_z6627 4 месяца назад +2

    @harabas
    Baka lang makatulong since lagi kau sa dagat ng maiwasan😊

  • @SATYUG3z
    @SATYUG3z 3 месяца назад

    The Most Venomous cone snail is thankfully the most docile.
    Being on top of the pyramid, it could easily wipe out all marine life!

  • @pushhard2
    @pushhard2 3 месяца назад

    Poisonous conch😋

  • @LWJCarroll
    @LWJCarroll 3 месяца назад +1

    Yes we were told about this when living in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Also ref sea snakes and local Lion fish…fyi….

  • @genekelly8467
    @genekelly8467 Месяц назад

    Has the venom been found useful as a medidine?

  • @isaiavila9622
    @isaiavila9622 3 месяца назад

    0:42 Seven HUNDRED PEEP-HULL

  • @donnalambs9578
    @donnalambs9578 2 месяца назад

    Ok

  • @saintzayan8205
    @saintzayan8205 Месяц назад

    So one sting from a cone snail kills you 700 times over

  • @wayneparkinson4558
    @wayneparkinson4558 3 месяца назад

    conque

  • @jeffreyschwarz3699
    @jeffreyschwarz3699 2 месяца назад +3

    Too many scary things in Australia, including some people.

    • @TheWill0fStrength
      @TheWill0fStrength 13 дней назад

      Nope white guy, only animals, humans can be imprisoned and executed... Animals are overprotected

  • @cageordie
    @cageordie 3 месяца назад

    Wait! What? 400,000 meters per second squared? That's acceleration. Basically 40,000 g. What did you mean by that?

  • @whereswaldo5740
    @whereswaldo5740 3 месяца назад

    Send some to Portland. It’s safer than what’s on the streets.

  • @zikemdg
    @zikemdg 5 дней назад

    So is venom more dangerous than poison dart frog?

  • @chrisnicey
    @chrisnicey 3 месяца назад

    The Cell from Dragon Ball Z!

  • @OLDMANTEA
    @OLDMANTEA 2 месяца назад

    This is like chemical warfare

  • @adrianmarquez8345
    @adrianmarquez8345 17 дней назад

    I thought the sea wasp (box jellyfish species) was the most venomous animal in the world?

  • @camillegrace3254
    @camillegrace3254 Месяц назад

    Dahil kay kuya kim kaya napunta ako dito

  • @JessMccusker-fh3ue
    @JessMccusker-fh3ue Месяц назад

    Cone snail 🐌 is one gnarly MF

  • @paulgee8253
    @paulgee8253 2 месяца назад

    California ?

  • @Roymerewayne
    @Roymerewayne 2 года назад +1

    THE RADULA OF DOOM.

  • @ashkenaze
    @ashkenaze 3 месяца назад

    1:55 400km/s is more than 1/10 of light speed, Newtonian physics will be no longer applied. It's practicallu impossible.

  • @michaelfoster821
    @michaelfoster821 3 месяца назад +3

    What exactly is 400,000 meters per second squared? It calls into question the veracity of everything said in the video

    • @StamfordBridge
      @StamfordBridge 3 месяца назад

      My brain hit a wall when she said that.

    • @jambreakfast4341
      @jambreakfast4341 3 месяца назад

      Pay attention instead of being a muppet your whole life.

  • @MrDhandley
    @MrDhandley 3 месяца назад

    400,000m squared = 160 trillion mps = 160 billion kilometres per second!! So faster than the speed of light?? don’t think so.

  • @the45er
    @the45er Месяц назад

    Speed of 400,000 meters squared…….that’s fast…….LOL

  • @alungiggs
    @alungiggs 3 месяца назад

    I thought it was a species of poison dart frog 🐸 from Central America.

  • @threeballedtomcat9380
    @threeballedtomcat9380 3 месяца назад

    My best friend is a cone snail and really appreciates the effort to make a video that explains her various talents.....

  • @lepourceletbarthelemy6555
    @lepourceletbarthelemy6555 3 месяца назад

    *If it's a cone, leave it alone*

  • @eljefe3993
    @eljefe3993 3 месяца назад +1

    Well I just heard that these things make insulin?? High prices are not gonna be there for long 😊

  • @dukenukembubblegum7311
    @dukenukembubblegum7311 22 дня назад

    That dude had his finger right in the venom, how dumb lol😊

  • @Retrodeoxys
    @Retrodeoxys 3 месяца назад

    You forgot to mention Florida and the Caribbean…

  • @edwhatshisname3562
    @edwhatshisname3562 3 месяца назад

    Imagine one of these in an episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants. Most disturbing episode ever.

  • @odesseylk863
    @odesseylk863 3 месяца назад

    no it's box jellyfish.

  • @carlfowler1996
    @carlfowler1996 Месяц назад

    It isn't the most venomous animal. It should be the creature with the most toxic venom.

  • @JESEUnvmbr
    @JESEUnvmbr Месяц назад

    kuya kim

  • @user-je7ot6ju9r
    @user-je7ot6ju9r 2 дня назад

    My Mother in Law is pretty venomous.

  • @robertklund3201
    @robertklund3201 Месяц назад

    Don't eat it for breakfast!

  • @conniewolf7300
    @conniewolf7300 2 месяца назад

    Why isn't that guy wearing gloves????

  • @georgegatuguta5376
    @georgegatuguta5376 3 месяца назад

    700s alot. Yikes!

  • @blxtothis
    @blxtothis 3 месяца назад

    All of a sudden I prefer robot voice overs!

    • @into_play3226
      @into_play3226 3 месяца назад

      Hell nah, AI voices are so overused and annoying.

  • @THX-vb8yz
    @THX-vb8yz 2 месяца назад

    Of course it's in Australia..... like every deadly creature.

  • @MrMZaccone
    @MrMZaccone 3 месяца назад

    Meters per second squared isn't a measure of speed, it's a measure of acceleration. Try again.