>>5098016
a distracted human passing by still can easily spot it, unlike that extreme middle finger from nature that the stonefish is

Maybe they were hunted by horses in a previous age?

>>5098054
>he thinks there are sea horses
Get a load of this guy

>>5098016
Me. I did. I like them. I don't like horses.

What would be the ecological impact if we just killed all of these cunts?

>>5098016
their mother has to inject the venom into the eggs otherwise they're not venomous. The venom is produced by bacteria, if they don't have those bacteria they aren't venomous.

>>5098016
it's an amorphous blob with no real way to defend itself from predators physically. Venom is the next best thing.

>>5098240
Then why don’t any of the other amorphous blobs have enough venom to kill ten men?

>>5098016
usually venom potency is influenced by the environment. it's why the inland taipan's venom is so lethal; it lives in a wasteland and it needs to be sure that whatever it finds drops dead hard from its venom. no idea about the blue ring though given that it's the sea and there's plenty of life there.

>>5098456
its venom is defensive, so it needs it to protect from predators. At some point it evolved mild venom to stop a predator. Then that predator evolved immunity to the venom. Then the octopus evolved stronger venom and the predator evolved immunity to that. This keeps happening until you get some crazy venom that kills anything, and you have some predator that still eats it anyways.

that's what happened with newts and garter snakes. Some newts have venom that will easily kill a human but garter snakes are immune and eat them anyways.

not sure what preyed on blue rings, it's possible whatever predator caused them to become so venomous is now extinct.