Stone Fish : Look But Don’t Touch
What’s both venomous and extremely adept at the art of camouflage?
What if we told you this creature lives underwater and possesses a series of dorsal spines that can pack a neurotoxin-filled wallop that’s enough to kill an adult human?
This potentially hazardous animal, friends, is the stonefish — five species that make up the genus Synanceia — and woe to him (or her) who steps on it, innocently believing it to be a plain old rock. (more…)