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The Top 5 Snakes With the Deadliest Bites
| Snake | Location | LD50 (mg/kg) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inland taipan | Australia | 0.025 |
| 2 | Eastern brown snake | Australia | 0.0365 |
| 3 | Dubois's sea snake | Australia | 0.044 |
| 4 | Yellow bellied sea snake | Indian and Pacific ocean | 0.067 |
| 5 | Horned sea snake | Western Australia | 0.079 |
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- The Inland Taipan, with a LD50 value of 0.025, makes it's venom 30 times more potent than the black widow spider's.
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Animals & Nature, Deadliest, India
Sources: Various. Top 5 of Anything research 2013.
List Notes: The LD50 is the standardized measure for expressing and comparing the toxicity of chemicals. The LD50 is the dose that kills half (50%) of the animals tested within 24 hours. The animals tested are usually rats or mice.(LD = "lethal dose")
Sources: Various. Top 5 of Anything research 2013.
List Notes: The LD50 is the standardized measure for expressing and comparing the toxicity of chemicals. The LD50 is the dose that kills half (50%) of the animals tested within 24 hours. The animals tested are usually rats or mice.(LD = "lethal dose")
