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Spider Tales 3: The Widow and the Rattlesnake... And other LD50 stories

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  "A black widow's venom is 15 times more toxic than a rattlesnake's"                                                                                                National Geographic documentary   Warning: this article shows some images of medically significant animals near human hands. These animals were not being handled, and this is not something I encourage or condone. The live cone snail being handled is not a medically significant species, and not something that should ever be replicated without the necessary knowledge and experience (handling of medically significant cone nail species is extremely dangerous) It's definitely one of the most commonly shared pieces of spider trivia. ...