World's largest spitting cobra species found

[slowhand]

NAIROBI (AFP) - A new giant species of spitting cobra -- about 2.6 metres long and with enough venom to kill up to 20 people in one bite -- has been discovered in Kenya, a study said Friday.


The large brown spitting cobra, initially included under the black-necked spitting cobra species, was discovered at a snake farm in June 2004, but confirmed as a separate species this year.

The black-necked species grows to a maximum two metres, with an average of 1.5 metres, scientists said, making the new species the largest in the world.



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[Caitlain]

NAIROBI (AFP) - A new giant species of spitting cobra -- about 2.6 metres long and with enough venom to kill up to 20 people in one bite --

:eek:

 

[tartanterrier]

That's why I'll never in my life - go to these countrys

 

[cartman24]

Remind me to never travel to Kenya.

 

[ChefChiTown]

World's largest spitting cobra species found

That's impossible!!! No one has been in my pants for years!!!

 

[90proof]

Hey, wait a minute...

I just found one here in the US. Run for your lives.

 

[BlueBalls]

Who is that ^

 

[titsrock]

That is the Queen of the Damned...Ann Coulter. She is venomous, angry, and has this nasally, ear-shattering screech in her voice..whenever she appears on Cable News shows.

She comes out with a Republican Manifesto/Democrat Sand Bag "book" every 4 or 5 months.Heck. We're due to hear from her soon, I think...

 

[senob44]

It's not very efficient to secrete enough venom to kill 20 people each time it bites. After all, you can only bite one person at a time!

Thus, I induct this spitting cobra into my "Mother Nature's Animal Hall of Shame".

 

[Muire]

It stuff like this that make Kenyans such good distance runners. If i lived there i would run everywhere, got lions, tigers, rhinos, and giant cobras. To hell with stopping.

 

[D-rock]

It's not very efficient to secrete enough venom to kill 20 people each time it bites. After all, you can only bite one person at a time!

Thus, I induct this spitting cobra into my "Mother Nature's Animal Hall of Shame".

Maybe it likes to eat elephants every once in a while.

 

[DrDetroit]

Sorry - but the largest venom spitting man killer was found years ago.... my ex.:thefinger

 

[sequtor1304]

Cool another venomous snake but not the most deadly, i'm wondering when the first person decided to calculate how many people a single bite could kill.
Did they get good money for that day of work?

 

[maildude]

I would not get anywhere near one of those unless there was a thick glass partition, like with Harrison Ford in Raiders.

 

[mongo18]

Does anyone mind if I say pffffffffffft. The 10 deadliest snakes in the world are ALL found in Australia.

http://snake.fol.nl/Page2.html

 

[Max2Porn]

It stuff like this that make Kenyans such good distance runners. If i lived there i would run everywhere, got lions, tigers, rhinos, and giant cobras. To hell with stopping.

:rofl:

 

[Kingfisher]

Amazing.

 

[Christmas_Ape]

Cobra!!!!

 

[L3ggy]

I didn't knew my cousin was on the news.