The coastal taipan is like the black mamba in venom potency, color, shape, and size. It attacks its prey in much of the same way as the black mamba, allowing the prey to walk around and die to ...

Coastal taipan snakes live in abandoned animal burrows ... lives in southern New Guinea. Africa's black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) gets its name from the black interior of its mouth.

Found in the southeastern United States, the Eastern Coral Snake's venom can cause respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, and ...