 Forked tongue  Scales  Size up to 9.5 feet (2.9m) long

 Farms,  Woodlands  Australia  New Guinea

 Coastal areas, including grassy,beach dunes, dry and wet forests  Farmed areas such as cane fields

 Uses tongue to sense prey  Very quickly bites its prey and backs off

 Small rats, mice, bandicoots, birds

 Feral cats, dogs  humans

 7 to 20 eggs, 10 to 14 weeks to hatch

 It has a enough venom to kill 12,000 guinea pigs

 Taipans,Doug Wechshler, 