Eli5: Why is it that everything in Australia is the most poisonous/venomous? Snakes/spiders/plants?

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Other places have plenty of poisonous shit, but the most worst of every category are all in Australia? What is it about Aus that causes that?

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I’d always been told (maybe wrongly) that in an environment with sparse resources and large distances, you better get (and eat) what you attack. If you have to expend too much energy to get a rare meal, you’re not likely to survive to spread your genes and evolve.

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