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BYCAROLINE TIENON 4/21/21 AT 10:12 AM EDTPauseUnmuteCurrent Time0:06/Duration0:38Loaded:30.93%QualityFullscreenVideo: Protests Break Out In Ohio After Police Fatally Shoot Black Teenage GirlSHAREShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on PinterestShare on RedditShare on FlipboardShare via EmailCommentsTECH & SCIENCEANIMAL EXTINCTION

Last week, scientists conducting research on Western Australia’s Ashmore Reef became the first humans to lay eyes on a short-nosed sea snake at the site in more than two decades. Olive-colored and critically endangered, the snakes have been thought locally extinct for 23 years.

Like cobras, taipans, and death adders, the short-nosed sea snake is a member of the Elapidae family, meaning that it possesses short, hollow fixed fangs capable of injecting predominantlyneurotoxic venom.

In short, it’s not an animal you want to encounter in the course of a swim. Luckily for them, the scientists were safe inside…