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The inland taipan is widely regarded as the most venomous snake on Earth. Here’s how life in the Australian outback shaped its extraordinary evolutionary weapon.

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The blue-ringed octopus may be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but its venom is among the deadliest biological weapons found anywhere in the animal kingdom. Armed with a neurotoxin ...

A scientist has discovered the first species of South American scorpion that sprays its venom — a behavior previously only observed in two genera of scorpions found in North America and Africa.

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