If there's ever a seafood shortage at your favorite Australian restaurant, you probably have Terry Peck to thank. The "aspiring rapper" (we're using that incredibly loosely) ate $621 worth of seafood at restaurant and then just ran to the ocean and proceeded to swim away. Peck, who goes by ...

At any given time, something in Australia is just inches away that could easily kill you. Fortunately for 2-year-old Molly Dickinson and her mom Bianca, their close brush with an eastern brown snake didn't end differently. Bianca was out taking pictures of her daughter and didn't actually ...

Some instances in life just aren't worth manning up for. Specifically, if theres a chance taking on a challenge will land you in the jaws of a crocodile, it's probably best to go home (of course it is) and headbutt a brick wall. Unfortunately for Lee de Paauw, an Australian teen who won't ...

Genetics are a weird thing in families. Some children resemble their parents, while others look like they could've been born on different continents. Then there are the kids who look so much like their parents that you're wondering if they're time travelers or if you're going crazy. That's the case ...

A dolphin in a t-shirt may sound slightly funny to some, but in reality it's no laughing matter. Wildlife rangers in Australia were desperately searching for  just such a dolphin after being notified by a someone who spotted the bottlenose dolphin swimming in Koombana Bay in the WA city of ...

Ray Johnstone knew exactly what he was looking for when he posted an ad for someone to go fishing with on Gumtree. The 75-year-old South Australian man had recently lost his previous fishing buddy after he passed away. It didn't take long for people to take notice of his ad and start ...

This story is just a reminder that an animal encounter can easily end in a viral video that can get a laugh or a story that the person is lucky to walk away from. Debbie Urquhart, an Australian woman, was just out for a jog near her home like most days when she came face to face with a male ...

Renowned Aussie angler and photographer Al McGlashan is fishing mad. Spending almost 200 days a year he chases and films everything from giant marlin to backcountry bass and sharks, lots of sharks. His brand new TV series Fishn’ With Mates is factual style documentary that follows his crazy ...

What happens when a satirical (for the most part) obituary claiming the Great Barrier Reef is dead goes viral? A lot. Spanning over 1,400 miles, with 3,000 individual reefs, that's a lot of real estate to claim is done for. While it's true the Great Barrier Reef, located off the coast ...

A woman in Australia hanging out by the East Alligator River in Kakadu Park with her small dog managed to avoid an encounter with a deadly crocodile in a way you'd never expect. While most people would be terrified as a crocodile approaches them, this lady remains incredibly calm. Instead of ...

Cameron Timms is lucky to be alive after what could've easily been a life-ending encounter with a freshwater crocodile. The 14-year-old was swimming with his family at Moonshine Gorge in Western Australia. "We were just standing in a group (in the water) and I was swimming through the middle ...

These two male carpet pythons were filmed as they fought while hanging off a suburban roof in Australia. If snakes hanging from a roof and fighting to the death is any indication of Australia's snake breeding season, I'm glad I don't have to live through it. "Breeding season has definitely begun ...

You never know what you're going to find in Australia. This particular encounter involving a kangaroo in a cattle grate may have just reached peak Australia. In the clip, a man and his sons have just come across a kangaroo which has gotten itself stuck, upside down, in a cattle grate. Its ...

If I ever woke up to a crocodile in my bathroom, I'd feel and do a lot of things - fear, panic, confusion, I'd question if I was dreaming and scream in terror, to name a few. The one thing I wouldn't do is wonder how sick this would look on my Snapchat story, like this teens roommate did. ...