Latest findings on poisonous species

The first poisonous animal, the positive side of cobra venom, half the venomous catfish . are new discoveries about venomous animals in the world.

A few interesting discoveries about poisonous species

Poisons and poisons often go together, even more confusion, but they have different meanings. Animals or plants with toxins are dangerous to touch or touch them, because toxins are spread outside the body. Meanwhile, the venom is stored in a part of the body such as the tail, tongue, and teeth, and is inserted into the body of the prey or the enemy.

From venomous dinosaurs to jellyfish and catfish . are dangerous animals but they are also medicinal warehouses that bring unique benefits that promise to surprise the scientific world, urging researchers to discover .

Here are some new findings about venomous animals:

Connodonts: The world's first venomous animals

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The image of the conodont is restored by scientists from fossils

Based on the analysis of the remaining fossil teeth , biologists have recently suggested that conodonts are the first animals in the world to have venom.

Like eels, marine animal vertebrates have no jaws that lived about 500 million years ago before being extinct about 200 million years ago.

When comparing the conodonts' teeth with those of other extinct and existing venom species, biologists have discovered similar trenches used to launch venom, especially one Neurotoxicity is called tetrodotoxin, which is currently unresolved.

The animals that are currently using tetrodotoxin poisoning include marine invertebrates such as puffer fish, moonfish, octopus, salmon fish, porcupine fish, and Trigger fish.

Sinornithosaurus: Venomous dinosaurs

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Fossils of Sinornithosaurus species and modern snakes

Modern snakes with rear fangs do not inject venom into their victims but through trenches and poison pockets, allowing poison to enter the wound and stun the prey. This property also exists in a turkey-sized, fur-covered dinosaur named Sinornithosaurus commonly found in forests in northeastern China 125 million years ago.

According to recent studies, fossils of Sinornithosaurus show that dinosaurs have similar characteristics like today's snakes with fangs in the back, especially with a bag linked to fangs by a long groove.

According to scientists, a venom gland has been stored in the toxic pockets of Sinornithosaurus and the toxin is carried through tubes in long grooves to the bite into the prey and makes them unable to move.

Today, only the Komodo dragons , which can weaken victims with venom-containing bites, come from the Sinornithosaurus dinosaur-like venom-release system.

The venom of jellyfish is venomous

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This box jellyfish contains poisons from tassels

For many people, jellyfish are exotic and harmless animals. However, this needs to be considered when it comes to more than 50 species of jellyfish, especially box jellyfish, which have been studied in the last 3 years.

This can be surprisingly large for many people, that box jellyfish with a covering with stinger are called brooch cells, are highly toxic and can even be fatal.

The box jellyfish species in Australia - considered to be the most unique among marine animals, or the Chironex yamaguchii jellyfish that killed many people in Japan and the Philippines.

Smaller but more dangerous is the carukia barnesi, their poison can cause a strange but not life-threatening syndrome , which is Irukandji syndrome.

The symptoms of this syndrome are back pain, headache, nausea and a feeling of death approaching. Later, when seeing a jellyfish in the water, especially with a box shape or a diverse shape, it should be avoided.

Poisonous fish

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There are more than 1000 species of catfish are poisonous, but toxicity is not high

Based on research by the University of Michigan, the United States about half of the more than 3,000 species of catfish are thought to be toxic. This means that anywhere, there are between 1,250 and 1,625 poisonous fish species. The good news is that these fish's venom is relatively light and does not pose a danger to most people.

Unlike other animals that use venom to hunt down and kill prey, catfish venom is used completely defensively .

When threatened by larger fishes or fishermen, catfish will pop out of foldable spikes (bottom right picture), stabbing into the skin and causing a mild and itchy sensation.

However, one notable point is that the larger the size, the more toxic the catfish.

Jeans fabric protects people from venom of rattlesnake snake?

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Jean fabric reduces the toxicity of rattlesnake

They are mainly live snakes in the desert areas of Africa and Asia, most rattlesnakes are very poisonous. Their venom can quickly cripple prey's nervous system such as mice, birds and some other small animals, then cause the victim's heart to stop just a few minutes after being bitten. .

When humans are bitten by rattlesnakes, toxins from their canines seep into the wound, into the blood, disrupting vascular cells and causing dangerous internal bleeding. In some cases, rattlesnake bites can lead to human death.

According to a recent study, Jeans clothes help protect us better from the bite of rattlesnakes than regular clothes.

In this interesting study, scientists used salt-containing gloves to simulate human limbs. A glove is covered with jeans and one is left empty, the small and large South Pacific rattlesnakes are provoked to attack the gloves.

While the snakes attacked both hands or the same, the gloves clad in jeans reduced significantly the amount of venom that was injected by the small snakes as close to 60% and the large snakes were nearly 66%.

Snake venom and bumblebees are parasites: not all are bad

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Cobra venom and bumblebees can cure diseases

According to a new study, the snake's venom does not kill, even, the sting of bees may be a new drug.

In one study, its venom was evaluated to be effective in reducing joint pain in rats, especially to limit bone and cartilage breakage.

The genome of these species is considered to be the key to changing the symptoms of allergies and cancer. While we are waiting for such drugs to be available in the market, they at least suggest some hope in improving future treatment.