1. Inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus)
LD50: 0.025
The Inland taipan is considered to be the most venomous snake species in the world, and also the most venomous snakes in Australia. Its venom is so strong that it could theoretically kill 250,000 mice with a single bite! But in reality, this snake feeds on smaller and medium-sized rodents as well as some birds in the semi-desert areas where it dwells. Inland taipan is very well adapted to its environment, and usually being grayish brown in color, it changes its skin color during different seasons of the year. It is a slender and rather long species (of around 1,8 meters on average), and it usually avoids conflict unless being provoked, when it returns the attack by raising the body and curving in S-shape as a warning sign.
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