10 of earth’s smallest but deadliest animals (With Pictures)

Smallest but deadliest animals: Nature and all her creatures, both great and small, are a constant marvel to scientists and everyone else. Nobody would argue with the claws of an Alaskan brown bear, or the thundering of a charging hippopotamus. But not all of natures creatures immediately strike you as aggressive or scary.

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Some of them are downright cute and cuddly.

The river otter is playful and cute to boot, but when they feel threatened they don’t hesitate to attack humans. Packed with muscle and weighing up to 30 pounds, you wouldn’t want to be on the wrong end of their razor sharp claws and teeth.

The puffer fish with their big eyes and dopey looking expressions, you would think of them as cute and cuddly. But one prick from the spines of the fish can kill a man. They have a highly potent neurotoxin, known as tetrodoxin. These toxins deaden the tongue and lips, and induces dizziness and vomiting, followed by numbness and prickling over the body, decreased blood pressure and muscle paralysis.

So cute, yet so deadly.

Here are ten more of natures tiniest, but deadliest creatures.

10. Golden Poison Frog

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Decked in brilliant red, yellow, blue and inky black, these tiny frogs are trippy to look at. They are quite tiny too, with adults reaching the size of a human thumb. But this is an example of the brighter the colors, the farther away you should stay from the creature.

This frog is native to tropical forests, from Brazil to Peru and has helped tribes here fight their enemies for centuries. Its skin secretions contain enough neurotoxin to kill two bull elephants or ten humans. By tipping their arrows in its skin secretions, the natives developed deadly weapons to kill their enemies with.

Travelers to the mountainous Brazilian Atlantic forest should take note as seven previously unknown, but equally poisonous species were recently discovered.