Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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What are the deadliest creatures lurking in the desert? In this video, we climb the scale of North America's most venomous desert animals... and the worst of them all might surprise you!

LEARN MORE about the creatures in this video:

Sidewinder - youtube.com/watch?v=nAd74NlVtHk
Sonoran Coral Snake - youtube.com/watch?v=98tkbIuZT3k
Arizona Bark Scorpion - youtube.com/watch?v=BlAr2uw6DFc
Western Black Widow - youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4odnwUGBU&t=204s
Maricopa Harvester Ant - youtube.com/watch?v=557WEYVsAMc&t=1s
Tiger Rattlesnake - youtube.com/watch?v=8lHRnPGZkmc&t=442s

My name is Spencer Hoffman. I’m a biologist and filmmaker from North Carolina and my goal is to find the most extreme life forms in the world—from the strangest, to the deadliest— and capture the stories of how their insane lifestyles help them to survive on our Weird Planet.

Music in this video:

Crystal Gaze - Theatre of Delays
Impulse - DJ Backscratch
In Love with Emi - Fabien Fustinoni
Intrepid - Brianna Tam
Life’s Journey Begins - idokay
Memento - Nobou
Particles - Nobou
Potencial - Adrián Berenguer
Still Need Syndrome - Yarin Primak
The Madrigal - Marco Martini
The Prayer - Ardie Son

#venomous