Since he was a small boy Bryan Fry had always said that he was going to make venomous snakes his career. As reported by the smh he is "now a world expert on venom and spends much of his time catching and milking poisonous snakes, lizards, spiders, fish, octopuses, scorpions and jellyfish, then studying the compounds at his laboratory in Brisbane."
Fry admits to a "child-like curiosity about the evolution of these animals". At 40, he is now an associate professor at the University of Queensland and the head of its Venom Evolution Laboratory.
In May, Bryan Fry was presented with the Australian Academy of Science's Fenner Medal, for distinguished research in biology by a young scientist
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