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5 Deadly Animals That Might Just Save Your Life

Posted March 13, 2008 9:24 AM

From mental_floss Blog:

Sure, you know these five creatures as stinging, biting merchants of death. But isn't it time we put aside our differences and embraced the positive?

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03/13/2008 10:16 AM

When you look and these creatures not as poision venoms and secretions but as proteins, there is a wealth of benefits on this earth that research can develop and duplicate.

That is when a creature or plant becomes extinct. The lose is more than the animal itself.

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03/13/2008 5:45 PM

I'm going out to suck on a Poison Dart Frog.

I might be away some time.....

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03/14/2008 9:47 AM

ah........which end to you suck on?..........

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03/14/2008 8:53 PM

Hello phoenix911

Evidently not the end I tried first, AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH$#@%$^%

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03/15/2008 11:23 AM

lol

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