““Why study the shark?””
Weird poisons and nasty creatures are useful for all sorts of things.
Alligator blood, for example, has just recently been discovered to contain an anti-biotic that can kill the nastiests of staff infections (makes sense, given alligators live in nasty swamps).
Poke along and discover about God’s world.
And store their prey until it is nice and rotten.
I know, I was just being funny....