Killer Instincts: Natural Born Killers

Meet the Real "Natural Born Killers"

The island continent of Australia is home to the most venomous snake on earth - the inland taipan - twenty-two times more lethal than the Indian cobra, four hundred and fifty times more poisonous than the rattlesnake!

Meet the funnel-web spider, which makes its burrows in the gardens of Sydney. When disturbed, this spider comes out fighting, its fangs dripping poison.

Australia's box jellyfish is both deadly and almost invisible.Stumble into it, and its tentacles cling to your body.Millions of stinging cells fire a paralyzing poison through your skin.The pain is agonizing.Without prompt and proper first aid, you could be dead within minutes.

Cone shells, found along the 1200-mile length of the Barrier Reef, are jewels of the sea - exquisitely shaped, beautifully colored, intricately marked and deadly poisonous.They strike like lightening, injecting venom through a needle-sharp barb.

The blue-ringed octopus is small and beautifully marked, making it attractive to children.But a single bite can be deadly.Its saliva is a powerful, paralytic poison.Unable to move, unable to speak, but acutely and agonizingly aware.The victim of the blue-ringed octopus suffocates.