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Venomous sea snakes are, on a whole, ridiculously more venomous than venomous land snakes. As far I as recall.

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Like the very venomous coral snake:

New World coral snakes possess one of the most potent venoms of any North American snake. However, relatively few bites are recorded due to their reclusive nature and the fact they generally inhabit sparsely populated areas. Even in areas that are densely populated, bites are rare.

Also not to be confused with the non-venomous king snake:

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Or I can confuse them and just avoid both of them.

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Duamerthrax used confusion.

Snek is confuse.

Snek fled.

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Best not to go outside at all.

Phew. That was easy.

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“Black on yellow, kill a fellow!”

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Red on black, poison lack.

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I thought it was “if it’s yellow, let it mellow”

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They get their fresh water from rain pools that, being less dense than seawater, float on the surface for a while.

That’s metal as shit imo.

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Fun fact sea snake scales are actually hydrophobic and there is a thin layer of air around it. The snake can breathe from this bubble of scale air and some pacific island claim divers can stay underwater longer by catching sea snakes and breathing from their tails, also I just made all that up.

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I almost believed you. But the part of divers breathing snake ass was too much.

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Well, you’re supposed to make out with a puffer fish if you want to breath longer.

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My upvote for valuable scientific knowledge suddenly changed in the meaning in the last line.

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watch it turns out that there IS a species that does this, and you were accidentally correct

that’ll be egg on your face

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Nobody talks about it? There are entire myths about sea serpents.

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How many myths?

About tree fiddy.

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slow clap

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About that time I realized this lemmitzer was a crustacean from the Paleozoic era

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Don’t boop it.

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Must… booo000p.

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