Sea snakes are best known for their potent venom and startling colour schemes, leaving some impressive features overlooked. From nostrils that act as valves to tails and even scales that ease movement ...

Others are so poisonous that they can kill thousands with only a few milligrams of venom. But even though they have a deadly reputation, sea snake bites are infrequent. Sea snakes are valuable ...

The small mottled brown snake coiled up in a box doesn ... a potent painkiller called ziconotide was discovered in the venom of cone snails. These sea-living snails use the chemical’s nerve ...

This highly aggressive species kills more humans than any other sea snake. Its venom is so potent that one animal may carry enough to kill as many as 22 people. Though an antivenom exists ...

A fourth kind of venom exists in sea snakes and is known as myotoxic. It leads to severe and instant muscular paralysis ...

the Irukandji jellyfish is one of the deadliest sea creatures in the world. The small white-coloured jellyfish inhabits oceans that are around Australia. Even though small, its venom is 100 times ...

This is a close mimic of the coral snake, but the real ... A venomous jellyfish or sea anemone probably came first, maybe 500 million years ago, and venom arose in snakes some 65 million years ...

It has evolved independently several times and is now present in 25% of all animal groups, from scorpions to sedentary sea anemones ... suck venom out the wound we now know is really not the best ...

They must literally chew on their victim to inject their venom fully, so most bites to ... snakes are relatives of the cobra, mamba, and sea snake. They live in the wooded, sandy, and marshy ...

A venomous snake with three sharp fangs has been found in an unprecedented discovery in Australia. The death adder with a rare mutation was spotted during a venom milking programme at the Australian ...

On this trip I was with producer David Marks and cameraman Robin Cox to film sea snake hunting ... if you do get bitten and they inject their venom you are dead in 20 minutes!