Robert Valentic / Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) tasting air, Julatten, north Queensland, Australia,

Robert Valentic / Red-bellied Blacksnake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) basking on rock, Lerderderg Gorge, Victoria, Australia, February.

Robert Valentic / Red-bellied Blacksnake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) female, upper Pambula River, NSW, Australia, spring. Controlled conditions

Robert Valentic / Red-bellied Blacksnake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) sub adult male, Goulburn River floodplain in central Victoria, Australia, summer.

Robert Valentic / Red-bellied Blacksnake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) sub adult, Goulburn River floodplain, central Victoria,Australia.

Robert Valentic / Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) basking on a cool, dry season morning near the Millstream Falls near Ravenshoe in far north Queensland, Australia. June 2018.

Robert Valentic / Coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) basking during dry seasons, Cooktown in far north Queensland, Australia. August.

Robert Valentic / Adult male King Brown Snake (Pseudechis australis) Winton, Queensland, Australia.

Robert Valentic / King brown snake (Pseudechis australis) central Queensland, Australia.

Robert Valentic / King Brown Snake (Pseudechis australis) male animal sub-adult near the town of St George in inland Queensland, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Hatchling female Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) captive bred, (parents from Goyder's Lagoon in South Australia). .

Edwin Giesbers / Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) portrait, captive occurs in Australia. Extremely venomous.