# Animals recently found to be venomous

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recently-found-to-be-venomous/780600>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recently-found-to-be-venomous/780600 "2017-02-23T23:41:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recently-found-to-be-venomous/780600/41 "2017-02-25T20:39:49Z")

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> [@outlierrn](#):
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> So I can still call Pluto a planet, then?

I’m not sure what your point is. Pluto was never considered a planet by the classical definition used in Shakespeare’s time, mostly because it hadn’t been discovered. But of course, by the classical definition Earth isn’t a planet either.

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**Author:** ![notsoheavyd3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85e7bf/32.png) [@notsoheavyd3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notsoheavyd3)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recently-found-to-be-venomous/780600/42 "2017-02-25T22:12:33Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> I think all spiders are venomous,too.

Actually it turns out not all spiders are venomous

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uloboridae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uloboridae)

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recently-found-to-be-venomous/780600/43 "2017-02-25T22:19:34Z")

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> [@notsoheavyd3](#):
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> Actually it turns out not all spiders are venomous
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> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uloboridae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uloboridae)

Maybe we could start a thread about animals recently found not to be venomous.

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recently-found-to-be-venomous/780600/44 "2017-02-26T15:56:39Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> I’m not sure what your point is. Pluto was never considered a planet by the classical definition used in Shakespeare’s time, mostly because it hadn’t been discovered. But of course, by the classical definition Earth isn’t a planet either.

And by the modern definition too, Earth has not cleared its neighbourhood either.

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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-recently-found-to-be-venomous/780600/45 "2017-03-02T03:04:53Z")

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Regarding the distinction between “poisonous” and “venomous”: how long have people been making the distinction of “poisonous means it secretes toxins, venomous means it injects toxins”? It seems like it should be a useful distinction, but I’m not convinced that actually makes it _incorrect_ to use terminology like “poisonous snake.”

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