The coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus), or common taipan, is a species of extremely venomous snake in the family Elapidae. Described by Wilhelm Peters...
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recognised, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. Taipans are some of the deadliest known snakes. The common name, taipan, was coined by anthropologist...
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The inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), also commonly known as the western taipan, small-scaled snake, or fierce snake, is a species of extremely...
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encounters humans. Many snake experts have cited the black mamba and the coastal taipan as the world's most dangerous, albeit not the most venomous snakes....
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The Central Ranges taipan, or Western Desert taipan (Oxyuranus temporalis), is a species of taipan that was described in 2007 by Australian researchers...
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from snakebite. In addition, some species, such as the black mamba and coastal taipan, occasionally show some aggression, generally when alarmed or in self-defence...
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Kevin Budden (section Taipan capture and death)
capture a live taipan for research and died from a snakebite in the process of doing so. His work was instrumental in developing a taipan antivenom. After...
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that was isolated from the venom of the coastal taipan Oxyuranus scutellatus or also known as the common taipan. Taipoxin like many other pre-synaptic...
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50mins later". Daily Mercury. Retrieved 11 February 2016. "Man bitten by taipan in lounge room dies six days on". ABC News. 27 December 2016. Retrieved...
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