Banded Sea Krait (photo: David Fleetham)
The banded sea krait’s lethal venom packs a punch ten times more toxic than a rattlesnake’s, but fortunately these serpents are so meek that human bites are rare. Kraits cruise the shallow, tropical waters of coral reefs and mangrove swamps. But, alone among the sea snakes, they are amphibious and able to spend up to ten days at a time on land. Sea kraits hit the beach to digest their food (mostly eels and fish), mate, and lay eggs.

I ACCIDENTALLY KICKED ONE OF THESE ONCE.
I was snorkeling with my parents on the Coral Reef and I thought it was a plastic hose or something and I wanted to pick it up cause it’d probably be really bad for the environment! So I tried picking it up with my feet…. then it popped it’s head out of under the coral and it looked at me and I looked at it and recognised what it was and I was like: OMG, IT'S YOU!
I’ve never swam away faster in my entire life.