World's Most Dangerous Animals

Mosquito-over 2 million deaths per year resulting from malaria infection caused by mosquito bites.The mosquito is a member of the family Culicidae; these insects have a pair of scaled wings, a pair of halteres, a slender body, and long legs. The females of most mosquito species suck blood from other animals. Size varies but is rarely greater than 15 mm . Mosquitoes weigh only about 2 to 2.5 mg . A single flight can last about 4 to 5 minutes. They can fly at about 1.5 to 2.5 km/h and most species are nocturnal. Mosquitoes are believed to have evolved around 170 million years ago during the Jurassic era with the earliest known fossils from the Cretaceous era .(IMG:http://63.229.12.241/topicimages/s/sn/snake.gif) Snake-Over 100,000 deaths per year. Snakes , also known as ophidians, are cold-blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. There are also several species of legless lizard which superficially resemble snakes, but are not otherwise related to them. A love of snakes is called ophiophilia, a fear of snakes is called ophidiophobia. A specialist in snakes is an ophiologist. An old synonym for snake is serpent ; in modern usage this usually refers to a mythic or symbolic snake, and information about such creatures can be found under serpent .(IMG:http://63.229.12.241/topicimages/s/sc/scorpion.gif) Scorpion-up to 5,000 deaths per year.A scorpion is an invertebrate animal with eight legs, belonging to the order Scorpiones in the class Arachnida.(IMG:http://63.229.12.241/images/n/ni/nilecrocodile.jpg) Crocodile-up to 2,000 deaths per year.A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all members of the order Crocodilia: i.e. the true crocodiles, the alligators and caimans and the gharials.(IMG:http://63.229.12.241/images/e/el/elephantreaching.jpg) Elephant-over 600 deaths per year. Elephantidae is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea in the class Mammalia. Elephantidae has three living species: the African Bush Elephant and the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant . Other species have become extinct since the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago. Elephants are mammals, and the largest land animals alive today. The elephant's gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal.