--- title: "#Venomous Animals & Superpower Traits (43 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Engineered biochemical cocktails delivered through fangs, stingers, spurs, or harpoons to disable nervous systems or dissolve tissue. Explore all 43 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # #Venomous Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations > Engineered biochemical cocktails delivered through fangs, stingers, spurs, or harpoons to disable nervous systems or dissolve tissue. - **Trait Category**: Superpowers & Defense - **Species Count**: 43 Curated Creatures - **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/venomous/) ## Species With #Venomous - [Amazonian Giant Centipede](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-centipede/) (*Scolopendra gigantea*) - **Superpower**: Venom-bearing fangs modified from the legs on its first body segment. - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Korn (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal) - [Arizona Bark Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/arizona-bark-scorpion/) (*Centruroides sculpturatus*) - **Superpower**: The best climber among Arizona's scorpion species, paired with venom that drives nerve axons into prolonged and excessive firing. - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Acid King (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Army Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/army-ant/) (*Eciton burchellii*) - **Superpower**: Builds its nest out of the bodies of its own workers - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: MONO (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Asian Giant Hornet](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/asian-giant-hornet/) (*Vespa mandarinia*) - **Superpower**: Raiding parties that can kill 5,000 to 25,000 honeybees in a few hours - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Black Mamba](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/black-mamba/) (*Dendroaspis polylepis*) - **Superpower**: Venom that attacks the nervous system two ways at once, dendrotoxins that jam nerve potassium channels plus neurotoxins that block nerve-muscle signals, backed by speeds of up to 20 km/h (12.5 mph). - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Burna Boy (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano) - [Blue Sea Dragon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-sea-dragon/) (*Glaucus atlanticus*) - **Superpower**: Kleptocnidae: steals a Portuguese man o' war's stinging cells and stores them in its own cerata. - **Danger**: Extreme | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Saint Pepsi (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Blue-Ringed Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/blue-ringed-octopus/) (*Hapalochlaena lunulata*) - **Superpower**: Symbiotic Tetrodotoxin Neurotoxin & Optical Iridophore Ring Strobing - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Ladytron (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Boomslang](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/boomslang/) (*Dispholidus typus*) - **Superpower**: A metalloproteinase-loaded hemotoxin that triggers uncontrolled clotting until the blood's clotting factors run out, paired with huge round-pupil eyes and a 180-degree gape that drives its rear fangs home. - **Danger**: Extreme | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Hugh Masekela (African Rumba & Mande Pop) - [Box Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/box-jellyfish/) (*Chironex fleckeri*) - **Superpower**: 24 eyes and no brain to run them, plus pore-forming venom that drives potassium out of human blood cells within 5 minutes - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Crystal Castles (Darkwave & Ethereal Witch House) - [Brazilian Wandering Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brazilian-wandering-spider/) (*Phoneutria nigriventer*) - **Superpower**: Venom peptides that jam voltage-gated sodium and calcium channels and the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Jorge Ben Jor (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Brazilian Yellow Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brazilian-yellow-scorpion/) (*Tityus serrulatus*) - **Superpower**: Parthenogenesis: adult scorpions are usually female, and unfertilized eggs develop straight into daughters, and a female breeds with no male present. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: CSS (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Brown Recluse](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/brown-recluse/) (*Loxosceles reclusa*) - **Superpower**: Venom that can kill the tissue around its bite - **Danger**: Extreme | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: The Cure (Gothic Rock & Post-Punk) - [Buff-Tailed Bumblebee](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/buff-tailed-bumblebee/) (*Bombus terrestris*) - **Superpower**: Nectar robbing: it bites a hole at the base of a flower too deep for its short tongue and sucks out the nectar - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Ramones (Classic Punk & 70s Garage) - [Chilean Rose Tarantula](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tarantula/) (*Grammostola rosea*) - **Superpower**: No extensor muscles at two leg joints, where blood pressure may work against the flexors - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Duster (Slowcore & Minimal Indie) - [Common European Adder](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-european-adder/) (*Vipera berus*) - **Superpower**: Hinged fangs that fold against the roof of the mouth and inject venom - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Gotan Project (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Common Wasp](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-wasp/) (*Vespula vulgaris*) - **Superpower**: Workers rapidly remove worker-laid eggs: 4 of 120 were left after an hour, against 106 of 120 queen eggs - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Elastica (Britpop & 90s Madchester) - [Cottonmouth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/cottonmouth/) (*Agkistrodon piscivorus*) - **Superpower**: A heat-sensing pit on each side of the face and a wide-open white mouth shown to predators - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: KC & The Sunshine Band (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Deathstalker Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/deathstalker-scorpion/) (*Leiurus quinquestriatus*) - **Superpower**: A venom peptide, chlorotoxin, that binds brain tumor cells and, built into the dye tozuleristide, made gliomas glow in a trial published in 2019 - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Gesaffelstein (French Dark Electro & EBM) - [Duck-Billed Platypus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/platypus/) (*Ornithorhynchus anatinus*) - **Superpower**: Electroreceptive bill with 40,000 electroreceptors, venomous hind-leg spurs, and cyan-green UV biofluorescence - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Pink Floyd (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Eastern Brown Snake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/eastern-brown-snake/) (*Pseudonaja textilis*) - **Superpower**: A ready-made clotting engine, pseutarin C, preassembled in the venom gland - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Ramones (Classic Punk & 70s Garage) - [European Hornet](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-hornet/) (*Vespa crabro*) - **Superpower**: Makes its own body heat, arriving home with a thorax averaging 30 to 40 °C - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Chromatics (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Flamboyant Cuttlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/flamboyant-cuttlefish/) (*Metasepia pfefferi*) - **Superpower**: In captivity it often sends colors traveling across its mantle, in many kinds of situations. Other cuttlefish are generally seen doing this while hunting or showing aggression. - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Data Deficient - **Soundtrack**: Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (West African Highlife & Palm-Wine Music) - [Gaboon Viper](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gaboon-viper/) (*Bitis gabonica*) - **Superpower**: Fangs up to 5 cm long, the longest of any venomous snake - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Explosions in the Sky (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Geography Cone Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geography-cone-snail/) (*Conus geographus*) - **Superpower**: Venom insulin that appears to be part of the "nirvana cabal," a toxin mix released into the water to disorient schools of small fish, which the snail then engulfs and harpoons with a hollow radular tooth. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Carpenter Brut (French Dark Electro & EBM) - [Gila Monster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gila-monster/) (*Heloderma suspectum*) - **Superpower**: Beaded osteoderm armor and venom containing exendin-4, the peptide behind the diabetes drug exenatide (Byetta) - **Danger**: Extreme | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: All Them Witches (Stoner Rock & Desert Groove) - [Hispaniolan Solenodon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hispaniolan-solenodon/) (*Solenodon paradoxus*) - **Superpower**: Likely the largest living venomous land mammal, delivering venom through a grooved second lower incisor; lab tests suggest it lowers blood pressure. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Wire (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [House Centipede](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-centipede/) (*Scutigera coleoptrata*) - **Superpower**: Rear legs that cross above and outside the legs in front of them, which prevents entanglement - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Tune-Yards (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Inland Taipan](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/inland-taipan/) (*Oxyuranus microlepidotus*) - **Superpower**: Paradoxin, a presynaptic neurotoxin that stops nerve endings releasing the signal that makes muscles contract. The whole venom is rated the most toxic of any snake's in LD50 tests on mice. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Spiritbox (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [Irukandji Jellyfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/irukandji-jellyfish/) (*Carukia barnesi*) - **Superpower**: Twitches its tentacles like fishing lures to draw in larval fish - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Jon Hopkins (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [King Cobra](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/king-cobra/) (*Ophiophagus hannah*) - **Superpower**: Can deliver more than a gram of neurotoxic venom, measured dry, in a single bite. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: A Tribe Called Quest (90s East Coast Hip-Hop & Boom Bap) - [Komodo Dragon](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/komodo-dragon/) (*Varanus komodoensis*) - **Superpower**: Iron-reinforced serrated cutting teeth, venomous shock-inducing glands, and chainmail osteoderm armor - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Red Imported Fire Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-imported-fire-ant/) (*Solenopsis invicta*) - **Superpower**: Links bodies with its nestmates to form a waterproof raft - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: LCD Soundsystem (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Red Lionfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-lionfish/) (*Pterois volitans*) - **Superpower**: The persistent-predation strategy: it chased a faster fish at about half its speed and caught it in 61% of lab trials. - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Electrelane (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Russell's Viper](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/russells-viper/) (*Daboia russelii*) - **Superpower**: Venom that differs significantly between five Indian regions, in composition and potency - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Jinjer (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [South American Bushmaster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/south-american-bushmaster/) (*Lachesis muta*) - **Superpower**: Facial heat-sensing pits that let it aim a strike at a warm body within 50 centimeters with no other senses needed, backed by venom produced in quantities of up to 400 milligrams. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: ROSALÍA (Latin Trap & Heavy 808s) - [Southern Black Widow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/southern-black-widow/) (*Latrodectus mactans*) - **Superpower**: Venom that acts on the motor endplate to allow a massive release of noradrenaline and acetylcholine, causing excessive stimulation and fatigue of the muscle. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Intervals (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso) - [Southern Stingray](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/southern-stingray/) (*Hypanus americanus*) - **Superpower**: Thousands of electrical sensors on its underside detect the electric field of prey buried in the sand - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Suzanne Ciani (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Spitting Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/spitting-spider/) (*Scytodes thoracica*) - **Superpower**: Fires a zigzag spray of silk, glue and venom at up to 28.8 meters a second, then bites once the glue is dry - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Igorrr (Breakcore & Chaotic Drill) - [Sunda Slow Loris](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sunda-slow-loris/) (*Nycticebus coucang*) - **Superpower**: Brachial gland chemical weaponization and specialized toothcomb venom delivery - **Danger**: Extreme | **Conservation**: Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Sneaker Pimps (Trip-Hop & Eerie Downtempo) - [Sydney Funnel-Web Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sydney-funnel-web-spider/) (*Atrax robustus*) - **Superpower**: Robustoxin (delta-atracotoxin-Ar1), a 42-amino-acid peptide in male venom that stops some sodium channels in nerve cells from switching off properly. Its toxin family likely evolved to deter vertebrate predators such as bandicoots, birds and lizards, but robustoxin severely affects the nervous systems of humans and monkeys. - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues) - [Timber Rattlesnake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/timber-rattlesnake/) (*Crotalus horridus*) - **Superpower**: Heat-sensing pits between nostril and eye that detect very slight changes in temperature - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Buena Vista Social Club (Cuban Son & Trova) - [Western Diamondback Rattlesnake](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/western-diamondback-rattlesnake/) (*Crotalus atrox*) - **Superpower**: A heat-sensing pit on each side of its head - **Danger**: Deadly | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Metallica (Thrash Metal & Speed Metal) - [Western Honeybee](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/honeybee/) (*Apis mellifera*) - **Superpower**: Waggle-dance directions read from the sun and gravity, a barbed sting that costs its owner her life, and a nest built from hexagonal wax cells. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Wizkid (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/venomous/#collection", "name": "#Venomous Animals", "description": "Engineered biochemical cocktails delivered through fangs, stingers, spurs, or harpoons to disable nervous systems or dissolve tissue. 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