Most VENOMOUS Snakes On Earth

The most dangerous, venomous snakes on Earth! These are the planet's most frightening, toxic serpents known to man.
#10 Belcher’s Sea Snake
Unlike some of the highly aggressive entries featured on this list, Belcher’s Sea Snake, or the faint-banded sea snake as it’s also called, is much more docile. A mistake in a 1996 first edition of a Smithsonian guide to snakes started the rumor that this was actually the most poisonous snake in the world. In reality, it’s venom is much less dangerous than ones belonging to the majority of snakes on this list, and even then it will refrain from injecting venom in most of its bites.
Venom is measured by the amount of toxin required to prove lethal for half of a sample group of animals. This is called an LD50 test. This is a relatively crude, barbaric experiment for testing venom lethality, as well as rife with outstanding variables such as how the toxin is administered with varieties ranging from muscles to vein to fat injections, or even forced inhalation or feeding. But despite this, it remains the main route by which the world measures the deadliness of venom.
The true danger of the snake’s venom is uncertain as data surrounding its LD50 results are scarce and difficult to compare to other venoms, while rumors continue to run rampant regarding its danger. Many online sources still frame the Belcher’s sea snake as the deadliest, but in reality, it has nowhere near the most lethal of snakebites in the world.
#9 Green Mamba
Not quite as nasty as it’s notorious onyx-colored cousin, the brilliant Green Mamba is still quite dangerous. Armed with a mix of neurotoxins [nurr-oh-tok-sihnz] and cardiotoxins [karr-dee-oh-tok-sihnz], the green mamba’s bite targets the body’s organ functions, first causing disorientation through dizziness and nausea before graduating to a swollen throat, a shift in heartbeat patterns, and eventually convulsions and respiratory paralysis. Fatal results aren’t always guaranteed once bitten, however untreated bites are thought to have a high mortality rate. Thankfully, the afflicted area bit by a green mamba tends to swell, making the danger associated with its venom a bit easier to identify and hopefully allow for the application of an antidote. Still, this species has very long front fangs that the snake actually has some control over, making more severe envenoming strikes a likely occurrence. In this case, more often than not the effects set in rapidly, and the bitten victim may perish in as little time as 30 minutes.

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