Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The inland or western taipan, Oxyuranus microlepidotus, is the most venomous snake in the world, according to Britannica. Native to Australia ...

A near-death bite in Florence led lawmakers to consider banning venomous snakes and cracking down on captive wildlife. Some ...

If any of the world's deadliest and most venomous snakes are in Mississippi, they don't live here naturally. The Inland or Western Taipan that lives in Australia is considered the snake with the most ...

from the West African carpet viper to the Papuan taipan. At one time, snakebite deaths were common in Costa Rica, as Picado himself documented in his 1931 book Venomous Snakes of Costa Rica.

Frank Burbrink: The most venomous snake in the world is the inland taipan from Australia. But it really doesn't envenomate that many people so many people don't actually die from this animal.

If any of the world's deadliest and most venomous snakes are in Mississippi, they don't live here naturally. The Inland or Western Taipan that lives in Australia is considered the snake with the ...