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A new danger rating for deadly animals
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
|April 2025
A former student at the University of Reading, England, has created a scientific rating system that aims to answer the question of what the world's most dangerous animals are.
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David Duarte Crespo noticed that many articles and YouTube videos named a snake called the inland taipan as the most lethal creature, because of its potent venom. However, writing on the website Technology Networks, Crespo said, "There hasn't been a single reported human death caused by
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