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

4.  Farms,  Woodlands  Australia  New Guinea

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

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

7.  Small rats, mice, bandicoots, birds

8.  Feral cats, dogs  humans

9.  7 to 20 eggs, 10 to 14 weeks to hatch

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

11.  Taipans,Doug Wechshler, 2001.  http://a-z-animals.com/animals/ http://a-z-animals.com/animals/