Name: スネークアイランドは本物であり、それは絶対に恐ろしいです (Snake Island Is Real And It's Absolutely Terrifying)
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Snake Island is located off the coast of Brazil, and from above it looks stunningly beautiful.

Unfortunately, it's also home to one of the deadliest snake species in the world and,

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oh yeah, there are literally thousands of them.

The deadly snake that calls Snake Island its home is probably not something you've ever

heard of, and that's because this little speck of land off the coast of Brazil is the only

It's called the golden lancehead, and the name is quite descriptive — the snake is

a lovely golden color and its head is shaped like a weapon of war, except if you get stuck

by a regular lance, you actually have a chance of survival.

Now, the golden lancehead is not the only member of the lancehead genus.

According to Atlas Obscura, lanceheads are common in Brazil and are responsible for around

90% of all snakebite fatalities in that country.

If you're bitten by a lancehead in mainland Brazil and you don't receive medical treatment

you've got about a 7 percent chance of dying.

If you do receive medical treatment, you still have a 3 percent chance of dying, and your

symptoms might include kidney failure, brain hemorrhage, intestinal bleeding, necrosis

of muscular tissue — you know, standard stuff.

The venom of the golden lancehead is thought to be as much as five times more potent than

There's a great reason why Snake Island is off limits to the average tourist.

Believe it or not, golden lanceheads are not the sole slithery occupant of Snake Island.

Snake Island is home to another snake species, called Sauvage's nail-eater.

Luckily for Snake Island's snail population, a 2005 study concluded that the island's population

of Sauvage's snail-eaters were basically the same species as those found on the mainland,

so unlike the golden lanceheads, there was no freakishly terrifying evolutionary trajectory

blessing them with snail-killing laser beams coming out of their eyes or anything.

And Sauvage's snail-eaters are non-venomous, and therefore mostly harmless to anything

Okay, so, Snake Island has deadly snakes and that's horrifying, and it has non-deadly snakes

that are still sort of horrifying, but at least it doesn't also have giant cockroaches

Except for the fact that Snake Island totally has giant cockroaches and terrifying locusts.

According to Business Insider, anyone who's feeling brave enough to camp on the island

better make sure to clean up after themselves or else they will be, quote, "knee-deep in

And once you've got that tent up you'd should probably plan to sleep on a cot, because if

you make your bed on the ground you'll be able to feel the roaches swarming around under

The Vice team who visited the island reported:

"There are blue locusts and so many of these weird, prehistoric-looking cockroaches on

the ground at night that it crunches when you walk.

As terrifying as all this sounds, we don't really know the exact number of golden lanceheads

Smithsonian says it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 to 4,000.

From there, the media loves to extrapolate on just what that means from a snakes-per-square

foot perspective, which is kind of a harder number to pin down.

Some researchers have guessed that the island has a snake density of one to five snakes

for every 3 square feet of surface area, which is plenty.

They also chill up in the trees, so you might not even see them if you're only looking on

"So even though we don't see snakes right now, you're saying there are snakes here?”

They are everywhere, but you have to find them."

On the other hand, Business Insider says visitors to Snake Island can expect to see one snake

every 10 or 15 minutes, at least until they actually travel inland.

Closer to the center of the island, the snake density is more like one snake every 54 square

feet, which is kind of a long way from those other scary estimates.

Not that you'll stay alive long enough to reach the center of the island.

You're probably wondering, "How bad can it be?"

Because the bite from, say, a black mamba shuts down the nervous system and paralyzes

its victims eventually leading to death in 100% of cases, unless the victim is really

So really, it couldn't possibly get any worse than that.

Except that black mamba venom doesn't liquify your insides, so there's that.

According to Vice, "liquifying your insides" may be an exaggeration but it's likely that

no one will ever really know for sure because although there have been surprisingly few

deaths from golden lanceheads, no one has actually ever lived long enough to make it

So it's not like doctors can put patient notes into a database or anything.

“If one of these were to bite us, we'd have six hours to get off the island and to a hospital."

The Brazilian mainland is about eight hours away by sea, so you'd probably have time to

die a couple times before you could get anywhere near civilization.

As molecular biologist Bryan Fry said on an episode of 60 Minutes:

"With these snakes it will be a particularly painful death.

The crazy thing about natural substances that can make people die screaming is that they

Puffer fish toxin, for example, could one day be turned into a pain-relieving drug for

Golden lancehead venom is showing some promise, too — it's already been used to make blood

pressure medication, and Smithsonian says it might also have applications in treating

heart disease, blood clots, and circulation problems.

That doesn't mean if you have high blood pressure you should go to Snake Island and let a golden

lancehead bite you, because medicines that are derived from powerful toxins need to be

But it also means that it's probably not a good idea to just go and drop a bomb on the

island, either, no matter how tempting that might be to most sane people.

According to local legend, the golden lancehead was first introduced to Snake Island by pirates,

who put them there to act as a sort of legless, venomous watch dogs.

When you think about it though, that seems really counterproductive.

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