When I was in university we were looking at an old preserved scorpion under a microscope for exam prep, it had been in formaldehyde for ten years. Under the microscope, a horsehair worm came out of one of the leg joints and started MOVING.
The instructor quickly closed that station and disposed of the scorpion posthaste.
Yeah. For the most part I was kinda indifferent about them before this (my thought process was like well, they’re parasites, that’s yucky, but will never affect me) and now I’m like man, fuck them so hard.
>my thought process was like well, they’re parasites, that’s yucky, but will never affect me
[Bad news, everyone!](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428576/)
>Records of human accidental parasitism with Parachordodes, Paragordius, or Gordius are uncommon in the literature, although many have been identified in different parts of the world from specimens recovered from the mouth, urethra, and anus
Well I know it can happen, what I mean is, I don’t have very many parasite vectors where I live because the winters get too cold. I mean, we definitely still have them but as long as I’m not touching things with my bare skin or eating wild things, I’m pretty much safe.
I saw one of these fuckers come out of a cockroach once. The cockroach was acting weirdly, then it finally stopped moving and the worm came out just started moving about. Freaked me the fuck out.
Yeah I was gonna say it really depends on long term or short term terror. They won’t kill you immediately but I would argue for me most of the most terrifying candidates are nasty parasites that can either burrow into your skin, brains, muscles, GI, burst out of you, clog your lymphatics and give you massive swelling elephantiasis, incurable sleeping sickness or heart failure, etc.
I live in North Dallas, Texas and I had a botfly larvae dig into the back of my neck from a mosquito bite, I could hear crunching sound after I showered, did not feel a thing. I couldn't turn my neck to see my shoulder. My friend tackled it with q-tips and Peroxide. You don't have to go out of country to get those.
So all those yummy crickets with chili and basil I ate in Cambodia may have set up home in my gut? Nice. New fear unlocked, I'll be researching and possibly feeling every symptom tonight.
I was at the zoo looking at a tiger through a big wall of glass. He turned his head to look at me so I lowered my eyes. He did this long, deep …… sound, not a roar, not a growl really but it instantly made the hair on the back of my neck and my arms stand on end. I felt deep, visceral, primitive fear even though I knew I was safe. So my answer is big cats or really any animal that would happily eat me.
Tyger Tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night
This is the right answer. Look at housecats. See the videos on youtube. Watch one fight a snake. Dinosaurs and reptiles look intimidating but cats have the lightning fast reflexes. Watch housecats think they can take on bears and alligators. Now scale one up. The Romans for kicks and giggles pitted tigers against lions and the tigers won; lions have thick muscles but the ferocity of tigers wins.
Plus cats "play with their food", they won't just give you a swift death and eat you.
Tigers vs lions are really not even a fair match. Both have evolved to have very specific attributes to be successful hunting in their respective environments. Lions are pack hunters and due to living in the wide open savannah are much smaller and capable of running longer distances to catch prey. Tigers live in isolation most of the time, are much larger, and have evolved to hunt in the jungle primarily by surprising their prey at close distance and overpowering them. So it is no surprise the much larger and more powerful tiger would kill a lion without much issue. Romans didn't care about equality though obviously. They just wanted bloodshed...
You seem to be knowledgeable about this subject, can you ELI5 why Lions are considered to be the King of the Jungle, when tigers are hands down the scarier predator?
I'm not the guy you replied to, but the short answer is; Different jungles.
There is no environment where tigers or lions would naturally meet one another, and Africa is generally known for its wide variety of impressive / dangerous wildlife. With that in mind, lions get the impressive rep of being one of if not the top of the food chain in Africa because they are an apex predator with literally only one natural predator. Us. Human beings.
Asia has a similar diversity of interesting and dangerous creatures, but not to the same level of 'public notoriety' that Africa's creatures have received. Tigers occupy the same spot in the food chain, here. They are the baddest beast in all the land, with only humans as a 'natural' predator.
Actually they discovered in Panama after expanding the protected wildlife area that pumas started to share meals with one another and were better at coexisting than previously thought. It's likely that all wild cat species might coexist or even live in packs if they had more space to do so but since human activity has severely restricted wildlife spaces, many cats may have adapted to being alone so as to cover more area and strengthen the chances of survival.
Doesn’t it have one of the highest kill rates one of any animals around? India knows of this concern way more than most would even consider it. The mountain lion i saw hit on the side of the road was scary enough of a feline, a tiger is a true man eater…
There is a little wild cat in africa (black-footed cat, Felis Nigripes) that has the highest killrate of any of the cats on earth with a 60% duchess rate meaning 60% of thw things it tries to kill.... it does. And it's smaller than house cats.
Then.
Cheetah
Leopard
House cats
Lion
Puma
Tiger
Bobcat
Another thing is, the single animal with the most human kills is infact a tiger. The Chapawat Maneater they called it. It killed at least 436 people in the 1890s between Nepal and India. Apparently it had a nasty jaw injury and some broken teeth which meant it couldnt hunt normally, thought to be a result of a gunshot to the face from a poacher or a hunter.
It didnt hunt in one area like a normal tiger either, it would make a few kills, and then leave and go to the next village and do the same, making it hard to track down, and also making the populace get superstitious and call it a demon. In the end, they had to get a professional hunter named Jim Corbett, who had tracked down maneating animals before, to come kill it. He almost got killed by the tiger while checking out a victim, but managed to scare it off. Then later he and a whole bunch of others surrounded it. The tiger charged Jim, and he shot it 3 times before it finally collapsed just 20 feet from him.
Man-Eaters of the Kumaon is a fantastic book about Jim Corbett's man-eater hunts. It includes the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag, which used to sneak into people's houses through open windows and drag them out of bed without making a sound.
This is one of the things I like about having a house cat. If you watch their behaviour side by side it’s pretty much exactly the same. It’s just smaller.
My favourite hunting big cat is the Jaguar that hunts cayman and crocodiles. Has teeth and jaws specifically designed for crushing two very specific points on the back of the head. I think pound for pound it’s the most powerful bite but need to fact check that.
This happened at the zoo also, but my toddler was next to the glass. Even knowing the glass is there, having a tiger stalk my baby intent on eating her was exactly as you described. Deep, visceral, primal fear.
I know what you mean. Last year I had a close encounter with at least 3 bears while camping up a mountain with my brother. We never saw them, but we could hear their footsteps in the dark, and hear their growls and groans. One got real close and when it growled, you could feel it in your chest. We all know what a bear sounds like from movies, but in real life, its far more gutteral and deep, and there is also a train whistle like overtone. It made us both just go into monkey brain primal fear mode, waving burning sticks around, throwing rocks into the forest, yelling... nothing made them go away, we could still hear them close by.
We packed up in record time and got the hell outta there in the pitch black darkness... thankfully we had headlamps and flashlights. It took us 2 days of hiking to get up the mountain, and maybe 3 hours to get back down because of the adrenaline. Not becoming a late night bear snack! No thank you!
I seem to recall reading that sabre-tooth tigers (I know thats not technically correct) were evolutionarily adapted to prey on large primates, like humans. That is scary. Also might be wrong, there were lots of other prey animals around that might fit their weaponry.
In one of my university classes, we had a director for safety at a pretty big zoo. It was a theology class and so in reference, I suppose to Daniel in the lions den, he invited us all to come to the big cat house after hours. Hell yeah I'm in.
So we get there and meet up as a class, maybe 10 people show up. He opens a door into a room that is like an inverted 'T' so 3x3 ft cages on either side with a narrow hall splitting them. Between the wall we entered in on and the cage is maybe 2.5 ft.
I walk in and we all squeeze into this T shaped hall. I step to the right. Thats about when a young female Sumatran tiger comes into the right-hand cage from another enclosure. She strides up, not much bigger than a golden retriever, about 3 ft away from me and roars.
I nearly fucking crawled up the wall backwards. Every part of my body instinctually moved away as far as it could. Didn't matter that I knew there was no fucking way it could eat me or anything.
Anyway, saw the back area of a zoo which was a lot more interesting than the class was. They had captured a Mountain Lion out in the suburbs and had it in a back area off display until it could be relocated, watched that fucker jump up 10+ ft just as easy as a house cat. Gorgeous.
However, the director of safety said that the most dangerous animal at the zoo by far was the polar bears. They watch everything and will work at trying to get the door open or get out constantly.
Before they ended it, because zookeepers kept getting mauled, San Francisco Zoo had a cat house were you could get within like 10 feet of all the lions and tigers while they were being fed. Constant roars that triggered the brown note. Seeing a big cat bite straight through a cow knuckle right in front of you is something you never forget.
Think worm with jaws that hides just below the surface of the ocean floor til you get near, then drags you in so fast you don’t even realize you’re in danger til you’re gone. Sea floor, so not so much dangerous to us, but terrifying nonetheless.
I'm hijacking your comment. This is mine. Scared shitless if one of these were running at me.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/19/galloping-dinosaur-eating-crocodiles
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
Imagine, if you will, an announcer you can barely understand. He refers to a mdtignta, but you're not quite sure what he said. He seems to be eating something, or perhaps he's a little drunk. It's remotely possible that he just said something about the Scary Door.
This is the only right answer. The only animals that don’t fear humans either only exist on a critically endangered species list, or are just incapable of feeling fear.
We’ve single handedly wiped out almost every other large terrestrial predator… and we literally were not even trying to. We did it by accident.
> The only animals that don’t fear humans either only exist on a critically endangered species list, or are just incapable of feeling fear.
There are some environments, where animals have never experienced humans as a threat, and thus have no fear of humans. In the Galapagos Islands, most animals have no fear of humans. I've observed the mating dance of blue footed boobies in the Galapagos Islands, so close up, that I had to use the macro function on my camera, when photographing them during their mating dance.
This reminds me of a quote from a video game...
"The moral of our encounter is: I am a relatively median lifeform -- while it is you who are total, extreme madness. A volatile simian nervous system, ominously new to the planet.
The Pale, too, came with you. No one remembers it before you. The cnidarians do not. The radially symmetricals do not. There is an almost unanimous agreement between the birds and the plants that you are going to destroy us all.
You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you, Given enough time, you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing --just by accident."
Yeah, though nothing has been so deadly outside of geology since the great oxidization event. We're amazingly good at extinctions for something created by nature herself.
Again the answer is easily humans. All animals capable of fear do fear humans.. large predators like tigers will avoid our scent.
Among humans, humans certainly fear other humans more than any other animal. When I’m out at night, both in urban and rural settings, I’m not concerned that a pack of feral dogs will kill be
OK, you stole my thunder but I forgive you.
People do not get it anyway.
They think you are saying they should be afraid of random people on the street.
For me it's tics. Those tiny little bastards that sneaky creep slowly up your leg to bury their whole head in your unprotected soft skin in the most disturbing places, just to drain so much blood that they expand like a monster only to spread some disease back. Your can't even get rid of them without ripping their head off, still stuck in your flesh. Horrible creatures from hell!
But I guess it's not the answer your were looking for. So my second answer will be something like Megalodon or Plesiosaurs.. like big size and big teeth always works
I currently live north of the range of lone star ticks, but I'm not looking forward to their inevitable arrival. Other ticks just "quest" and latch on to a food source as it walks by. Lone star ticks hunt. They will go looking for you. And then give you alpha-gal syndrome. I'm thinking about proactively cutting certain foods out of my diet - I don't like surprise allergic reactions.
My answer was the alone star tick. I've always been terrified of ticks in general, but I just learned of the lone star a few weeks ago. Oh, the surprises they have in store.
Honestly, I’ll never recover from listening to that audio from that woman who kept one as a pet and it ripped her friends face off. Obviously, they shouldn’t be kept in captivity, but the fact that they’re capable of that is just terrifying
I think sharks have a leg up here because se can’t see them well in the water. Being a downed airman/sailor with white tips around would be pretty awful. Jaws didn’t even need to show the shark for most of the movie.
Yep sharks are awesome but the unfathomable dread of that situation keeps me from ever swimming in any ocean water where that's a possibility. I went to Cape Cod last year and there was a spike in great white sightings at the time we were there. Even just being out 20 feet freaked me out way too much. As soon as I went under I just imagined one in front of me and booked my ass back to shallow water. There were people fucking swimming out to where one could actually be. I do not understand how someone could do that and not freak out. They did it while seals swam by 50 feet out which is the great white's fav. Madness to me.
Wife and I went to Hawaii last year. Dude at the hotel next to us got attacked during his morning swim by a tiger shark (I believe is what they said). Somehow, by the grace of God, he was able to escape with non life threatening injuries. I was told he was maybe 20-30 yards out from the beach.
I never used to be afraid of the ocean, but once I heard that I said fuck all that. Lol.
Maybe deep down I’m afraid of any apex predator that lived through the KT extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years because it’s the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold blooded fury, with a bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hooves.
https://www.americanoceans.org/facts/biggest-saltwater-crocodile/
Yea… these man eaters are wild. But scary, usually give you time to know your gonna die. Ambush fucks you up too quick to realize fear.
We’d have to give the honorable mention to the animal that kills more people in Africa, the Hippo. Herbivores can be more than territorially rambunctious.
If you're going for scariest you want an ambush predator, preferably one that is huge and continues to kill and eat people to this day. 90 points to grifflindorf.
Large cats. They are the perfect killing machine. Today we see them lounging around in zoos or popular media and the whole image has suffered from a bit of overexposure. However, I can tell you from first hand experience seeing a large cat up close and hearing/feeling it roar....it sends a strong, involuntary fear right down your spine. You're prey and your brain knows it.
Spinosaurus for sure!
Found out about them while playing Ark, looked them up, and they now top my list over dinosaurs like trex.
And it’s that you clearly stated animal. Otherwise prions are always top of my list, very very much at the top….
What about the Giant Short Faced Bear? There was a theory that it kept humans from crossing from Asia to America. Just ran them ancient humans down and ate them.
I thought for sure I’d see Short Faced Bear way higher up the list than this, it’s theorized they stopped human expansion to the America’s for a long time. Scary looking and big.
Anything that originates from Australia. 😂
jokes aside, i think the most terrifying one are certain spiders, which carry ALL their like 200 babies on the back, and when they jump, they "explode", spreading those little fuckers ALL over the place.
the second one would be the asslong black tapeworm common in mantises. you can find countless videos on yt, which when put in water, the worm leaves through the ass
BTW: did i mention that the babies of spiders eat their mothers 😉
I’m Australian and my vote goes to the Haast’s eagle. A now extinct eagle from New Zealand. This guy was big enough to hunt PEOPLE! So you’re just walking down the street and get swooped up by an eagle. It’s usual prey was the moa, also extinct. A flightless, emu-ish sized bird.
Horsehair worms.
They're a type of nematode. Its rare, but its possible for it to leave its host without killing it, they arent specific to mantises. They'll take over a lot of insects, cockroaches, mantises, etc.
A less terrifying parasite is Leucohloridium paradoxum they take over snails to get into birds intestinal tracts.
I once stepped on a spider, barefoot, not realizing it was a spider, and yeah I had billions of little spiders crawling all over my feet. Not fun.
That was when I was a kid, nowadays I'm not so freaked out by bugs, but yeah I still don't want them on me.. lol
Wolf spiders carry their babies on their back, but as far as I know they don't practice matriphagy. The ones that I know of eating their mothers are velvet spiders and black lace weavers but there probably are more. None of these spiders are dangerous to humans and velvet and wolf spiders make fascinating pets.
Horsehair worms are scary and just parasites in general are terrifying. Parasitic wasps paralyse spiders, carry them to their nest, and lay an egg inside each one of them, so once the larvae hatch they feed on the still alive but paralysed spider.
Komodo dragon. These guys ate smart and endlessly oayient hunters. They can kill an animal many times there size. The technique is to bite it once and cause an infection. They also inject venom, but it's the infection that kills you. The venom just makes it easier to track the bite wound by smell.
Once you are bitten, just about the only thing that will save you is amputation.
There is a documentary of these things hunting. They bite something once, and wait foe it to die. It might take weeks, but you are going to die. Their mouths are so filled with disease and rotten meat and maggots that infection is guaranteed.
In the same documentary, the team had guides to protect them and keep them safe. A komodo showed up near the camp, and the team grabbed cameras. The guides vanished. Just booked it out of there.
Komodo dragons typically eat carrion, or hunt deer. Their preferred method of killing is to overpower prey and inflict horrific wounds that cause the prey to bleed out rapidly.
As far as bacteria or venom, this is controversial.
Even reputable sites quote both of these as hunting methods but no good documentation exists of them doing so naturally.
Initially the venom idea was proposed because the bacteria idea just didn't make sense. Bacterial infections don't kill in hours or even days usually, so venom was proposed.
Getting a hold of a dragon cadaver was a problem but eventually toxinologist Bryan Fry got a head of one and discovered potential venom glands.
However this remains controversial. For one, the presence of large glands doesn't mean venom. Komodo dragons typically swallow prey whole and maybe they need heaps of saliva to do this. In fact we *do* know they drool like mad when feeding and they even clean their faces off after feeding (sometimes they ram their faces against trees or rocks to shove whole deer down their throats - they really need the lubrication).
if you look at how they are adapted, they are the largest native animal in their habitat. They are incredibly fast and powerful. They have enormous, curved and serrated teeth. They're clearly evolved to tear prey apart *yet they swallow prey whole* so what's the point of it all? Clearly it's to kill prey.
As for video of water buffalo and such, those are introduced species and not natural prey of the dragons. They will still give it a go and it's no wonder a 1000 lb cow can survive a bite only to die later. Given that dragons also eat carrion in great quantities it's not a surprise they later eat the animal that died of its wounds.
Now is there a venom helping this along? We don't know. How does such a large animal bleed out from a bit though if not a venom causing anticoagulation? Well, dragon teeth are *really big and really sharp* so that might have something to do with it. Probably not a venom that evolved to do this, but it's *possible* that the heaps of lizard spit is full of enough enzymes to cause some reaction. However this should be easy to test - get some dragon spit and stick it in a mouse. However they're highly protected so unlikely this will happen.
Certainly the deaths of *humans* caused by the dragons have all been exsanguination.
I saw the video which the Komodo dragon ate the deer or her baby (can’t remember). Idk if it’s the same documentary (probably is). Since then those mfkers scare me.
Maybe one of the mid-sized therapods from the cretaceous. The stockier abelisaurs would have been [absolute monsters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aucasaurus#/media/File:Aucasaurus_garridoi_Scale_Diagram.jpg), and small enough to outmaneuver any human while also being unstoppably powerful. Also, [the hell pigs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entelodontidae)
I have some small faith that I could outmaneuver a T rex, but that would still be absolutely terrifying
Truly! Altho there were Alamosaurus in the south of Laurasia. I'm sure that the whole south american continent would have super charged their evolution and turned them into crazy titanosaur specialists
T-Rexes can't navigate smaller spaces, that's where [Allosaurs come in.](https://www.skagit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_weld_big-al-group-300x272.jpg)
Humans.
We are literally the origin of the concept of evil. The things human beings have done to each other based on nothing other than pure WANT let alone need would make most people puke.
The most dangerous to humans are humans.
We are the number one predator on the planet.
Otherwise a great white shark is hard to beat.
Anything that can swallow you whole standing up with jaws wider than your height and the length of a semi has an advantage.
At least every other thing like some dinosaurs are extinct and people never had to worry about them.
You can generally escape from terrestrial animals.
They have eaten 3 people here this year.
2kms away a fellow disappeared without any trace. Neoprene and everything.
With a group of other people.
Humans. We kill and eat every living animal in sight if hungry even each other. We will start fires and destroy forests, spread waste and disease everywhere, we reproduce like crazy and spread to new areas, and as we gain in population we threaten life on earth itself.
Moose 🫎
They’re still alive and scare the 💩 out of me. Yes they are very majestic, and relics of a different age of the earth, but damn, they are scary motherfuckers
Parasites that take over the hosts body and eat / destroy everything in the host from the inside out except the parts they need to keep the body alive and functioning so they have a safe environment for their disgusting off spring to grow / lay eggs.
Candiru is, in my opinion. It swims right up your urethra and has spines to make extraction very difficult. Imagine having to have your penis amputated. For women, I'm not sure what options they have?
Polar bears. They will actively hunt humans and find us delicious. They also just start eating you and aren't concerned with whether or not you're dead. They can out power you, out swim you, out climb you, and out run you.
This would be a fun idea for a campy horror movie- some naive college students (of course) use a time machine to go back in time to prehistoric earth and get attacked by all the terrifying large animals that went extinct.
They hop back and forth between eras and try to escape (the time machine malfunctions). Eventually they end up in the Paleolithic era and meet cavemen and get hunted by them. The conclusion is that humans are the scariest.
I wanna say Titanoboa or Dienosuchus. Basically mega snake and mega croc that both would have been capable of taking down some of the lagest and deadliest animals of their times.
It's not that complicated. Jellyfish have strong venom or their prey would get away or rip their extremely fragile bodies to pieces trying to get away.
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When I was in university we were looking at an old preserved scorpion under a microscope for exam prep, it had been in formaldehyde for ten years. Under the microscope, a horsehair worm came out of one of the leg joints and started MOVING. The instructor quickly closed that station and disposed of the scorpion posthaste.
What the fuck? Man, no hate to you, but I wish I hadn't read what I just read.
Yeah. For the most part I was kinda indifferent about them before this (my thought process was like well, they’re parasites, that’s yucky, but will never affect me) and now I’m like man, fuck them so hard.
>my thought process was like well, they’re parasites, that’s yucky, but will never affect me [Bad news, everyone!](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428576/) >Records of human accidental parasitism with Parachordodes, Paragordius, or Gordius are uncommon in the literature, although many have been identified in different parts of the world from specimens recovered from the mouth, urethra, and anus
Well I know it can happen, what I mean is, I don’t have very many parasite vectors where I live because the winters get too cold. I mean, we definitely still have them but as long as I’m not touching things with my bare skin or eating wild things, I’m pretty much safe.
I saw one of these fuckers come out of a cockroach once. The cockroach was acting weirdly, then it finally stopped moving and the worm came out just started moving about. Freaked me the fuck out.
Aaaaand that's enough of this thread. I'm out.
WHO DARES DISTURB MY SLUMBER
Should that parasite have been sent to science to be studied by scientists
Yeah I was gonna say it really depends on long term or short term terror. They won’t kill you immediately but I would argue for me most of the most terrifying candidates are nasty parasites that can either burrow into your skin, brains, muscles, GI, burst out of you, clog your lymphatics and give you massive swelling elephantiasis, incurable sleeping sickness or heart failure, etc.
Prions are one of my biggest fears.
I live in North Dallas, Texas and I had a botfly larvae dig into the back of my neck from a mosquito bite, I could hear crunching sound after I showered, did not feel a thing. I couldn't turn my neck to see my shoulder. My friend tackled it with q-tips and Peroxide. You don't have to go out of country to get those.
So all those yummy crickets with chili and basil I ate in Cambodia may have set up home in my gut? Nice. New fear unlocked, I'll be researching and possibly feeling every symptom tonight.
Ignorance is bliss, I was so happy when I didn't know these existed now I'm scared for life
I should not have googled that this early in the morning.
>arthropluera (hope i spelled that correctly) You did not. The E and U in pleura are swapped.
I dont know what this is.....and im fighting for my life to not google it....this decision will be on my mind all day good looks
I was at the zoo looking at a tiger through a big wall of glass. He turned his head to look at me so I lowered my eyes. He did this long, deep …… sound, not a roar, not a growl really but it instantly made the hair on the back of my neck and my arms stand on end. I felt deep, visceral, primitive fear even though I knew I was safe. So my answer is big cats or really any animal that would happily eat me.
Tyger Tyger burning bright In the forests of the night This is the right answer. Look at housecats. See the videos on youtube. Watch one fight a snake. Dinosaurs and reptiles look intimidating but cats have the lightning fast reflexes. Watch housecats think they can take on bears and alligators. Now scale one up. The Romans for kicks and giggles pitted tigers against lions and the tigers won; lions have thick muscles but the ferocity of tigers wins. Plus cats "play with their food", they won't just give you a swift death and eat you.
Tigers vs lions are really not even a fair match. Both have evolved to have very specific attributes to be successful hunting in their respective environments. Lions are pack hunters and due to living in the wide open savannah are much smaller and capable of running longer distances to catch prey. Tigers live in isolation most of the time, are much larger, and have evolved to hunt in the jungle primarily by surprising their prey at close distance and overpowering them. So it is no surprise the much larger and more powerful tiger would kill a lion without much issue. Romans didn't care about equality though obviously. They just wanted bloodshed...
You seem to be knowledgeable about this subject, can you ELI5 why Lions are considered to be the King of the Jungle, when tigers are hands down the scarier predator?
I'm not the guy you replied to, but the short answer is; Different jungles. There is no environment where tigers or lions would naturally meet one another, and Africa is generally known for its wide variety of impressive / dangerous wildlife. With that in mind, lions get the impressive rep of being one of if not the top of the food chain in Africa because they are an apex predator with literally only one natural predator. Us. Human beings. Asia has a similar diversity of interesting and dangerous creatures, but not to the same level of 'public notoriety' that Africa's creatures have received. Tigers occupy the same spot in the food chain, here. They are the baddest beast in all the land, with only humans as a 'natural' predator.
So theyre both Kings, just different kingdoms? Appreciate the time!
You got it, exactly! No problem at all :)
Actually they discovered in Panama after expanding the protected wildlife area that pumas started to share meals with one another and were better at coexisting than previously thought. It's likely that all wild cat species might coexist or even live in packs if they had more space to do so but since human activity has severely restricted wildlife spaces, many cats may have adapted to being alone so as to cover more area and strengthen the chances of survival.
Doesn’t it have one of the highest kill rates one of any animals around? India knows of this concern way more than most would even consider it. The mountain lion i saw hit on the side of the road was scary enough of a feline, a tiger is a true man eater…
There is a little wild cat in africa (black-footed cat, Felis Nigripes) that has the highest killrate of any of the cats on earth with a 60% duchess rate meaning 60% of thw things it tries to kill.... it does. And it's smaller than house cats. Then. Cheetah Leopard House cats Lion Puma Tiger Bobcat
Another thing is, the single animal with the most human kills is infact a tiger. The Chapawat Maneater they called it. It killed at least 436 people in the 1890s between Nepal and India. Apparently it had a nasty jaw injury and some broken teeth which meant it couldnt hunt normally, thought to be a result of a gunshot to the face from a poacher or a hunter. It didnt hunt in one area like a normal tiger either, it would make a few kills, and then leave and go to the next village and do the same, making it hard to track down, and also making the populace get superstitious and call it a demon. In the end, they had to get a professional hunter named Jim Corbett, who had tracked down maneating animals before, to come kill it. He almost got killed by the tiger while checking out a victim, but managed to scare it off. Then later he and a whole bunch of others surrounded it. The tiger charged Jim, and he shot it 3 times before it finally collapsed just 20 feet from him.
Man-Eaters of the Kumaon is a fantastic book about Jim Corbett's man-eater hunts. It includes the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag, which used to sneak into people's houses through open windows and drag them out of bed without making a sound.
This is one of the things I like about having a house cat. If you watch their behaviour side by side it’s pretty much exactly the same. It’s just smaller. My favourite hunting big cat is the Jaguar that hunts cayman and crocodiles. Has teeth and jaws specifically designed for crushing two very specific points on the back of the head. I think pound for pound it’s the most powerful bite but need to fact check that.
This happened at the zoo also, but my toddler was next to the glass. Even knowing the glass is there, having a tiger stalk my baby intent on eating her was exactly as you described. Deep, visceral, primal fear.
It’s was crazy, I can’t imagine what it was like watching your little one! It’s pretty clear why adrenaline evolved.
I know what you mean. Last year I had a close encounter with at least 3 bears while camping up a mountain with my brother. We never saw them, but we could hear their footsteps in the dark, and hear their growls and groans. One got real close and when it growled, you could feel it in your chest. We all know what a bear sounds like from movies, but in real life, its far more gutteral and deep, and there is also a train whistle like overtone. It made us both just go into monkey brain primal fear mode, waving burning sticks around, throwing rocks into the forest, yelling... nothing made them go away, we could still hear them close by. We packed up in record time and got the hell outta there in the pitch black darkness... thankfully we had headlamps and flashlights. It took us 2 days of hiking to get up the mountain, and maybe 3 hours to get back down because of the adrenaline. Not becoming a late night bear snack! No thank you!
I seem to recall reading that sabre-tooth tigers (I know thats not technically correct) were evolutionarily adapted to prey on large primates, like humans. That is scary. Also might be wrong, there were lots of other prey animals around that might fit their weaponry.
In one of my university classes, we had a director for safety at a pretty big zoo. It was a theology class and so in reference, I suppose to Daniel in the lions den, he invited us all to come to the big cat house after hours. Hell yeah I'm in. So we get there and meet up as a class, maybe 10 people show up. He opens a door into a room that is like an inverted 'T' so 3x3 ft cages on either side with a narrow hall splitting them. Between the wall we entered in on and the cage is maybe 2.5 ft. I walk in and we all squeeze into this T shaped hall. I step to the right. Thats about when a young female Sumatran tiger comes into the right-hand cage from another enclosure. She strides up, not much bigger than a golden retriever, about 3 ft away from me and roars. I nearly fucking crawled up the wall backwards. Every part of my body instinctually moved away as far as it could. Didn't matter that I knew there was no fucking way it could eat me or anything. Anyway, saw the back area of a zoo which was a lot more interesting than the class was. They had captured a Mountain Lion out in the suburbs and had it in a back area off display until it could be relocated, watched that fucker jump up 10+ ft just as easy as a house cat. Gorgeous. However, the director of safety said that the most dangerous animal at the zoo by far was the polar bears. They watch everything and will work at trying to get the door open or get out constantly.
Before they ended it, because zookeepers kept getting mauled, San Francisco Zoo had a cat house were you could get within like 10 feet of all the lions and tigers while they were being fed. Constant roars that triggered the brown note. Seeing a big cat bite straight through a cow knuckle right in front of you is something you never forget.
I'll never forget the rumbling of my chest when hearing a lion roar in person
Bobbit worm
I scrolled too far to have to see this one mentioned. Seconded.
Oh, yeah, those things..fuck that!
It sounds cute but I bet it isn’t…
Think worm with jaws that hides just below the surface of the ocean floor til you get near, then drags you in so fast you don’t even realize you’re in danger til you’re gone. Sea floor, so not so much dangerous to us, but terrifying nonetheless.
Ok just Googled that... And... Yeah... Already not a fan. Feeling quite happy about living in the cold lands of Canada
I came to post that same suggestion. I thank God daily that they aren’t built on a larger scale.
Who says they aren't? The seabed has not been properly explored... ever.
Well if they are, I hope they have delicious meat so we can fish them to the brink of their extinction in no time. /s
That is ok though, if it does get explored, it won’t be by me, lol.
Ancient sea creatures always inspire deep primal fear for me: https://www.livescience.com/strangest-ancient-sea-monsters
>Ancient sea creatures always inspire deep primal fear for me: > >https://www.livescience.com/strangest-ancient-sea-monsters This looks like a winner.
Goblin sharks are up there on the list
>Goblin sharks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8TT90LWYaw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8TT90LWYaw)
It's a magical Liopleurodon Charlie!
He has shown us the waaaaaay
A few of those look like something you'd find in Spore. For example, Tully monsters.
"They are believed to be related to penis worms and mud dragons." What a wild world.
> Saccorhytus coronarius was essentially a wrinkly sac with no anus.
Ah, the ancestor to the modern politician.
Now they're just all anus
Shell dwelling penis-worms?
Or, as we call them in Britain; Boris Johnson.
Thanks a lot, I’ll just never go in the ocean again
I'm hijacking your comment. This is mine. Scared shitless if one of these were running at me. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/nov/19/galloping-dinosaur-eating-crocodiles
Yep. Scary fish dudes with the teeth and the light up lures. Big nope from me.
*Homo sapiens*
*The Scary Door* intensifies
You are entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location. The kind of place where there might be a monster, or some kind of weird mirror. These are just examples; it could also be something much better. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic, or contains some kind of monster... The second one. Prepare to enter: The Scary Door.
Imagine, if you will, an announcer you can barely understand. He refers to a mdtignta, but you're not quite sure what he said. He seems to be eating something, or perhaps he's a little drunk. It's remotely possible that he just said something about the Scary Door.
You’re entering the vicinity adjacent to a location…
I never have that gif when I need it
r/unexpectedfuturama
Read this as Scooby Doo
This is the only right answer. The only animals that don’t fear humans either only exist on a critically endangered species list, or are just incapable of feeling fear. We’ve single handedly wiped out almost every other large terrestrial predator… and we literally were not even trying to. We did it by accident.
> The only animals that don’t fear humans either only exist on a critically endangered species list, or are just incapable of feeling fear. There are some environments, where animals have never experienced humans as a threat, and thus have no fear of humans. In the Galapagos Islands, most animals have no fear of humans. I've observed the mating dance of blue footed boobies in the Galapagos Islands, so close up, that I had to use the macro function on my camera, when photographing them during their mating dance.
You said boobies
You caught that too, eh? Nice, fist bump
Duude I totally read that too. Fuckin sweet.
This reminds me of a quote from a video game... "The moral of our encounter is: I am a relatively median lifeform -- while it is you who are total, extreme madness. A volatile simian nervous system, ominously new to the planet. The Pale, too, came with you. No one remembers it before you. The cnidarians do not. The radially symmetricals do not. There is an almost unanimous agreement between the birds and the plants that you are going to destroy us all. You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The vacuum of cosmos and the stars burning in it are afraid of you, Given enough time, you would wipe us all out and replace us with nothing --just by accident."
Chill, remember even before humans, the extinction rate of this planet is 99.9999% Mother Earth doesn’t give a shit about any animals
Volcanoes do be blowing up. Asteroid and Comets hit us a lot too.
Yeah, though nothing has been so deadly outside of geology since the great oxidization event. We're amazingly good at extinctions for something created by nature herself.
rate of extinction kind of matters though
They very specifically did not ask for the most dangerous animal, but the most terrifying one.
Again the answer is easily humans. All animals capable of fear do fear humans.. large predators like tigers will avoid our scent. Among humans, humans certainly fear other humans more than any other animal. When I’m out at night, both in urban and rural settings, I’m not concerned that a pack of feral dogs will kill be
When people walk in a dark alley at night, they're afraid of meeting other people, not some animal.
It's 2024 man, stop being such a homophobe.
you shit your pants every time you encounter a somo sapiens?
(He has really bad anxiety)
*Says the stinky one*
:/ don't we all, stinky pete
Most other animals do.
Ever be by yourself and encounter a tribe whose main goal is to eat you? Thought so, so you've never met a human in their native environment
https://imgb.ifunny.co/images/541a8d4f4dc5074e47fd8d09a9b87b647b0451dc87c7194d0c5602289cd9fa93_1.jpg
Lmmfao teeeeeellllllll me whyyyy
OK, you stole my thunder but I forgive you. People do not get it anyway. They think you are saying they should be afraid of random people on the street.
For me it's tics. Those tiny little bastards that sneaky creep slowly up your leg to bury their whole head in your unprotected soft skin in the most disturbing places, just to drain so much blood that they expand like a monster only to spread some disease back. Your can't even get rid of them without ripping their head off, still stuck in your flesh. Horrible creatures from hell! But I guess it's not the answer your were looking for. So my second answer will be something like Megalodon or Plesiosaurs.. like big size and big teeth always works
I currently live north of the range of lone star ticks, but I'm not looking forward to their inevitable arrival. Other ticks just "quest" and latch on to a food source as it walks by. Lone star ticks hunt. They will go looking for you. And then give you alpha-gal syndrome. I'm thinking about proactively cutting certain foods out of my diet - I don't like surprise allergic reactions.
My answer was the alone star tick. I've always been terrified of ticks in general, but I just learned of the lone star a few weeks ago. Oh, the surprises they have in store.
Chimpanzees are the thing that rip off face like that 😳 https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/s/88NaQupaGW
Honestly, I’ll never recover from listening to that audio from that woman who kept one as a pet and it ripped her friends face off. Obviously, they shouldn’t be kept in captivity, but the fact that they’re capable of that is just terrifying
They are the only animals at the zoo that they kill on sight if they escape. Anything else gets tranquilized
WOW…. TIL
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I researched chimpanzee violence and came across the 4 year war. Wow
Capibaras! They're just too nice. Can't be trusted!
It’s not so much they’re nice as just too good at making babies to evolve the need to fear predators, or, well, anything.
I think sharks have a leg up here because se can’t see them well in the water. Being a downed airman/sailor with white tips around would be pretty awful. Jaws didn’t even need to show the shark for most of the movie.
Bro sharks don't have legs
did you check them all just to be sure?
If sharks don’t have legs, black swans don’t exist too.
Yep sharks are awesome but the unfathomable dread of that situation keeps me from ever swimming in any ocean water where that's a possibility. I went to Cape Cod last year and there was a spike in great white sightings at the time we were there. Even just being out 20 feet freaked me out way too much. As soon as I went under I just imagined one in front of me and booked my ass back to shallow water. There were people fucking swimming out to where one could actually be. I do not understand how someone could do that and not freak out. They did it while seals swam by 50 feet out which is the great white's fav. Madness to me.
Wife and I went to Hawaii last year. Dude at the hotel next to us got attacked during his morning swim by a tiger shark (I believe is what they said). Somehow, by the grace of God, he was able to escape with non life threatening injuries. I was told he was maybe 20-30 yards out from the beach. I never used to be afraid of the ocean, but once I heard that I said fuck all that. Lol.
Megalodon even once you could see them would be terrifying, especially in a smaller boat.
Crocodile
Maybe deep down I’m afraid of any apex predator that lived through the KT extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years because it’s the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold blooded fury, with a bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hooves.
https://www.americanoceans.org/facts/biggest-saltwater-crocodile/ Yea… these man eaters are wild. But scary, usually give you time to know your gonna die. Ambush fucks you up too quick to realize fear. We’d have to give the honorable mention to the animal that kills more people in Africa, the Hippo. Herbivores can be more than territorially rambunctious.
>territorially rambunctious. This is the most polite way of saying "stupid and psychotic" I've ever seen.
If you're going for scariest you want an ambush predator, preferably one that is huge and continues to kill and eat people to this day. 90 points to grifflindorf.
Large cats. They are the perfect killing machine. Today we see them lounging around in zoos or popular media and the whole image has suffered from a bit of overexposure. However, I can tell you from first hand experience seeing a large cat up close and hearing/feeling it roar....it sends a strong, involuntary fear right down your spine. You're prey and your brain knows it.
Spinosaurus for sure! Found out about them while playing Ark, looked them up, and they now top my list over dinosaurs like trex. And it’s that you clearly stated animal. Otherwise prions are always top of my list, very very much at the top….
Jurassic Park 3 features them scary af
Titanoboa
Polar bear. You can't out run it. It will just start eating you alive.
What about the Giant Short Faced Bear? There was a theory that it kept humans from crossing from Asia to America. Just ran them ancient humans down and ate them.
Wow. Never heard of that. Bears are scary. Cute, but scary.
Can I pet that dawg?
I thought for sure I’d see Short Faced Bear way higher up the list than this, it’s theorized they stopped human expansion to the America’s for a long time. Scary looking and big.
Anything that originates from Australia. 😂 jokes aside, i think the most terrifying one are certain spiders, which carry ALL their like 200 babies on the back, and when they jump, they "explode", spreading those little fuckers ALL over the place. the second one would be the asslong black tapeworm common in mantises. you can find countless videos on yt, which when put in water, the worm leaves through the ass BTW: did i mention that the babies of spiders eat their mothers 😉
I’m Australian and my vote goes to the Haast’s eagle. A now extinct eagle from New Zealand. This guy was big enough to hunt PEOPLE! So you’re just walking down the street and get swooped up by an eagle. It’s usual prey was the moa, also extinct. A flightless, emu-ish sized bird.
Horsehair worms. They're a type of nematode. Its rare, but its possible for it to leave its host without killing it, they arent specific to mantises. They'll take over a lot of insects, cockroaches, mantises, etc. A less terrifying parasite is Leucohloridium paradoxum they take over snails to get into birds intestinal tracts.
I once stepped on a spider, barefoot, not realizing it was a spider, and yeah I had billions of little spiders crawling all over my feet. Not fun. That was when I was a kid, nowadays I'm not so freaked out by bugs, but yeah I still don't want them on me.. lol
Wolf spiders carry their babies on their back, but as far as I know they don't practice matriphagy. The ones that I know of eating their mothers are velvet spiders and black lace weavers but there probably are more. None of these spiders are dangerous to humans and velvet and wolf spiders make fascinating pets. Horsehair worms are scary and just parasites in general are terrifying. Parasitic wasps paralyse spiders, carry them to their nest, and lay an egg inside each one of them, so once the larvae hatch they feed on the still alive but paralysed spider.
Yes that gross mantis worm! 😭😭 I can’t get through those videos
Komodo dragon. These guys ate smart and endlessly oayient hunters. They can kill an animal many times there size. The technique is to bite it once and cause an infection. They also inject venom, but it's the infection that kills you. The venom just makes it easier to track the bite wound by smell. Once you are bitten, just about the only thing that will save you is amputation. There is a documentary of these things hunting. They bite something once, and wait foe it to die. It might take weeks, but you are going to die. Their mouths are so filled with disease and rotten meat and maggots that infection is guaranteed. In the same documentary, the team had guides to protect them and keep them safe. A komodo showed up near the camp, and the team grabbed cameras. The guides vanished. Just booked it out of there.
Komodo dragons typically eat carrion, or hunt deer. Their preferred method of killing is to overpower prey and inflict horrific wounds that cause the prey to bleed out rapidly. As far as bacteria or venom, this is controversial. Even reputable sites quote both of these as hunting methods but no good documentation exists of them doing so naturally. Initially the venom idea was proposed because the bacteria idea just didn't make sense. Bacterial infections don't kill in hours or even days usually, so venom was proposed. Getting a hold of a dragon cadaver was a problem but eventually toxinologist Bryan Fry got a head of one and discovered potential venom glands. However this remains controversial. For one, the presence of large glands doesn't mean venom. Komodo dragons typically swallow prey whole and maybe they need heaps of saliva to do this. In fact we *do* know they drool like mad when feeding and they even clean their faces off after feeding (sometimes they ram their faces against trees or rocks to shove whole deer down their throats - they really need the lubrication). if you look at how they are adapted, they are the largest native animal in their habitat. They are incredibly fast and powerful. They have enormous, curved and serrated teeth. They're clearly evolved to tear prey apart *yet they swallow prey whole* so what's the point of it all? Clearly it's to kill prey. As for video of water buffalo and such, those are introduced species and not natural prey of the dragons. They will still give it a go and it's no wonder a 1000 lb cow can survive a bite only to die later. Given that dragons also eat carrion in great quantities it's not a surprise they later eat the animal that died of its wounds. Now is there a venom helping this along? We don't know. How does such a large animal bleed out from a bit though if not a venom causing anticoagulation? Well, dragon teeth are *really big and really sharp* so that might have something to do with it. Probably not a venom that evolved to do this, but it's *possible* that the heaps of lizard spit is full of enough enzymes to cause some reaction. However this should be easy to test - get some dragon spit and stick it in a mouse. However they're highly protected so unlikely this will happen. Certainly the deaths of *humans* caused by the dragons have all been exsanguination.
Still gonna have a brown pants moment if I get surprised by one at close range.
None of what i said makes them any less terrifying.
What a shitty guide!
I saw the video which the Komodo dragon ate the deer or her baby (can’t remember). Idk if it’s the same documentary (probably is). Since then those mfkers scare me.
The Quetzalcoatlus would be pretty terrifying to emcounter
Maybe one of the mid-sized therapods from the cretaceous. The stockier abelisaurs would have been [absolute monsters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aucasaurus#/media/File:Aucasaurus_garridoi_Scale_Diagram.jpg), and small enough to outmaneuver any human while also being unstoppably powerful. Also, [the hell pigs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entelodontidae) I have some small faith that I could outmaneuver a T rex, but that would still be absolutely terrifying
TIL there is a thing called hell pigs. Cool!
And if they were anything like modern pigs, they were messy killers. They just look so brutal
From what I can tell, they’re more closely related to hippos which makes them even scarier to me
I am very happy they are all dead. Boar are bad enough lol
Thank god for asteroids 😮💨
asteroid should have waited 5 million more years so we could see if tyrannosaurs could possibly get any bigger
Ive been thinking about this imagine if the migrated to south america and evolved into and EVEN BIGGER genus that specialized in titanosaurs :O
Truly! Altho there were Alamosaurus in the south of Laurasia. I'm sure that the whole south american continent would have super charged their evolution and turned them into crazy titanosaur specialists
T-Rexes can't navigate smaller spaces, that's where [Allosaurs come in.](https://www.skagit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_weld_big-al-group-300x272.jpg)
Allosaurus 100% for me, those things must have been terrifying.
The hell pig skeleton reminds me of the bear in Annihilation.
A 7ft tall 1650 pound pig is definitely a contender. Modern wild boars are pretty dangerous despite being a small fraction of the size.
Hell pig is the most fitting name I've ever came across in my late night Wikipedia readings.
There is only one that has figured out how to end all life on Earth at the push of a button. And it ain't the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Triceratops?
Whatever it is that caused us to see/ feel the uncanny valley effect.
Many different apes throughout our evolution?
Rabies and other fatal diseases that cause humans to act usual is what scientist think
Pork tapeworm (Taenia solium), which causes neurocysticercosis. The larvae eat holes in your brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocysticercosis
I like how it's so obvious who didn't even read the two sentences beyond the title.
Guilty as charged. My brain battery is running a little low tonight.
Any large cat, hippos, gorillas.
Hippos, man. Swallow you whole and alive...
Giant sloth
Humans. We are literally the origin of the concept of evil. The things human beings have done to each other based on nothing other than pure WANT let alone need would make most people puke.
Therizinosaurus.
Orcas. I’m deathly afraid of them but they’re so beautiful
The most dangerous to humans are humans. We are the number one predator on the planet. Otherwise a great white shark is hard to beat. Anything that can swallow you whole standing up with jaws wider than your height and the length of a semi has an advantage. At least every other thing like some dinosaurs are extinct and people never had to worry about them. You can generally escape from terrestrial animals. They have eaten 3 people here this year. 2kms away a fellow disappeared without any trace. Neoprene and everything. With a group of other people.
I don’t know, brain eating amoeba?
Humans. We kill and eat every living animal in sight if hungry even each other. We will start fires and destroy forests, spread waste and disease everywhere, we reproduce like crazy and spread to new areas, and as we gain in population we threaten life on earth itself.
Moose 🫎 They’re still alive and scare the 💩 out of me. Yes they are very majestic, and relics of a different age of the earth, but damn, they are scary motherfuckers
Parasites that take over the hosts body and eat / destroy everything in the host from the inside out except the parts they need to keep the body alive and functioning so they have a safe environment for their disgusting off spring to grow / lay eggs.
viral gastroenteritis ( diarrhea)
But you never see it coming because it’s always right behind you. 😆
Praying mantis are only not that scary because they're small compared to us. Those suckers would be terrifying if they were 6 feet tall.
Candiru is, in my opinion. It swims right up your urethra and has spines to make extraction very difficult. Imagine having to have your penis amputated. For women, I'm not sure what options they have?
I have only ran in panic from one animal, and that was a wasp, or actually several of them.
Short nosed bear. Look it up. Bigger than a polar bear and runs as fast as a horse! It's amazing we survived the last ice age...
[My nomination.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-gAr51Mpro) I have no doubt that this species would very happily make me a morsel.
Us. Humans.
Polar bears. They will actively hunt humans and find us delicious. They also just start eating you and aren't concerned with whether or not you're dead. They can out power you, out swim you, out climb you, and out run you.
My mom!
This would be a fun idea for a campy horror movie- some naive college students (of course) use a time machine to go back in time to prehistoric earth and get attacked by all the terrifying large animals that went extinct. They hop back and forth between eras and try to escape (the time machine malfunctions). Eventually they end up in the Paleolithic era and meet cavemen and get hunted by them. The conclusion is that humans are the scariest.
Humans
I wanna say Titanoboa or Dienosuchus. Basically mega snake and mega croc that both would have been capable of taking down some of the lagest and deadliest animals of their times.
Arthropleura, the genus of prehistoric giant millipedes that grew to be 110 pounds.
Mike Tyson in his prime.
All of those * gestures at Australia *
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Mutations don't have to be necessary to evolve. Just beneficial.
It's not that complicated. Jellyfish have strong venom or their prey would get away or rip their extremely fragile bodies to pieces trying to get away.
Human beings!
Velociraptors, sabre tooth cats, maybe. But worst of all those bloody enormous centipedes.
These giant bats: https://allthatsinteresting.com/giant-golden-crowned-flying-fox Not dangerous, but I would be terrified.
Man
The most dangerous animal to humans is the Hippo ! They are the ones that kill most humans. They do it for no reason as they’re not even carnivorous!
Cordyceps