Questions tagged [venom]
For questions involving venom produced by any existing or fictional creature. A venom is injected by a creature into a different creature.
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How plausible is a Cryovenom?
In my science-fantasy world there is a creature that secretes a venom (called a cryovenom) whose proteins catalyze a spontaneous crystallization of the water inside the interstitial fluids and ...
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How would a venom that melts organic substances work?
I'm having trouble finding out how this venom would work with one of my dragon characters. The venom is sprayed out of 2 long front fangs- like a snake, and the venom is acidic and melts through any ...
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How does the time to die from venom change for very large organisms?
Let's say that an untreated snakebite kills a human in 2-3 days.
Now consider a much larger mammal, such as a blue whale. If a proportional amount (equal chance of lethality) of the same venom was ...
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Could a bird use toxic vomit to hunt?
I call it vomit due to the way it is being projected like it but would be something of a solution that immobiles and paralyses the pray. I know that the Fulmar chick uses an orange oil like substance ...
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Plausibility of "muscle-locking" paralytic vemon?
There is a species of animal in my world with a potent venom that can cause paralysis at a specific dosage. This renders a given target unable to move for 24 hours. This venom "locks" a ...
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Does a predator have any use for narcotic venom?
The creature I will describe I came up with solely to fill one purpose in my narrative: to provide narcotic venom. I obviously wasn’t going to portray opium in my story, now was I? So many dead plants!...
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Is a venomous bird possible?
Is a bird with venomous claws possible? I want it to jump on people and scratch at their heads while they’re walking as a mating ritual. However, they need to be venomous for plot related reasons.
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How big would a Daddy Longlegs Spider need to be to kill an average Human?
Daddy Longlegs Spiders, officially "Pholcidae" are known to be the worlds most venomous spiders, sort of.
We are supposedly unaffected by them because their fangs are too small, the shape of their ...
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What is the bio-mechanical plausibility of a fox with venomous fangs?
For context, I've been working on a fantasy race for use in a science fiction novel, the gist of which is essentially a red fox that has had its genes manipulated by a supernatural force with the ...
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How is petrification by venom scientifically plausible?
In my book series (link here), there is a character named Rhys. Rhys is a highly mutated wasp whose mutation gave him the following benefits:
His armor is immune to most of the medieval-style weapons ...
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Hallucinogen Dragon Venom?
The smallest type of dragon in my world is a bipedal dragon about the same size as a moderately sized bird, maybe about a falcon. In addition to its breath attack and high intelligence, this little ...
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Would a venom vaccine work?
I have heard of antivenom naturally being produced in honey badgers(they are able to sleep off the venom). My humanoids also naturally produce antivenom as antibodies. But here is the thing. Even with ...
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