World's deadliest library being created in Australia

Melbourne is building a new venom library, where researchers can investigate new anti-venoms and medicinal uses for venom. From the Guardian:

Over the past six months, scientists have collected 12 snakes and milked them of their venom. The snakes have been stored in a fluid preservative. The snakes belong to the tiger snake lineage of species, with variants including two species of copperhead snake, a white-lipped snake and a small-eyed snake. The venom library will progressively add other species, such as blue-ringed octopus, spiders, scorpions, platypus – which has a venomous spur - and other snakes. It will be the first facility in Australia to have a dedicated storage of venom along with full tissue samples of the animal the poison has been extracted from.

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