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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Silvery-blue with dark bands, one of the world’s most venomous snakes, found in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. Glossy olive or purple-brown, aggressive when provoked, found in coral reefs around ...

But these islands aren’t entirely snake-free. Sea kraits sometimes come ashore to lay their eggs ... To get into a victim’s bloodstream, venom enters through a wound, such as a bite or sting. Poison ...

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 ...

A banded sea snake, venomous and lethal for people ... If the snake manages to bite the eagle, she could die due to its venom ...

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 ...

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!