| During the breeding season, the coastal taipan deposits clutches of 7 to 17 eggs, whereas O. microlepidotus lays between 12 and 20 eggs. |
| The taipan, is the world's most poisonous snake and also lives in this unforgiving land. |
| He provided the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory with snake venom, including that of the taipan, for antivenom production. |
| The coastal taipan produces venom that is nearly identical to that of its inland cousin. |
| The Hong Kong-based retailing taipan disagreed so much that he has made an offer of 250p a share to take the company back into private hands. |
| Just this February, Dr. Fry and his colleagues filed a patent for a molecule found in the venom of the inland taipan that may help treat congestive heart failure. |
