When we think of animals that will destroy us, rend us limb from limb, and leave us in a bloody mess, we usually thing of the huge and horrifying. Which means we forget about the real threats: the tiny, the cute, the gorgeous. The animals at which we ooh and aaah over, but are deadly, poisonous...
The Australian Aborigines are known as the first people to have dwelt in the vast continent of Australia. The word Aborigines refers to people who are the first or the earliest known populations that inhabited the land. It was believed that the Australian Aborigines came from the Southeast Asia...
Massive flooding throughout Australia caused more evacuations which displaced thousands and a search for over 90 missing people on Wednesday. Officials' in Brisbane have evacuated many residents while search teams searched for victims following tsunami like flash floods in the financial district....
Australia is a land of deadly creatures that seem to take obscene joy in killing you — and not just Queenslanders hunting down anyone who's brown. No, the entire ecosystem seems specifically designed to kill, what with the horrible desert, deadly animals, annoying insects, and constant worry of...
Twenty two year old Sebastian Vettel has qualified his Red Bull Renault on the pole position for tomorrow's F1 Grand Prix of Australia. This is Vettel's second pole of the 2010 season, and the seventh one of the young German driver's career. Red Bull Renault teammate Mark Weber, an Australian...
There's a heat wave down under as Sydney, Australia, set an all time record high temperature on Friday, January 18, 2013. The blazing temperatures sent the mercury high and by 2:55 p.m. at Sydney's Observatory Hill, it was 45.8 degrees Celsius or 115 degrees Fahrenheit. In other locations, the...
Ever since the term 'subliminal advertising' was coined in the 1950s, the idea of ads with hidden messages that can influence us without our conscious knowledge has captivated the popular imagination. If adverts can steer us toward a particular product through surreptitiously placed words or images...
Call it luck, determination, the power of love or a mix of all three; here are 15 inspiring examples of happy reunions of lost pets and their families.
Forget outer space; there are aliens far closer to home! These bizarre looking and strangely fascinating sharks look like they’re from another world.
Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 storm, slams Australia. The storm made land on the coast near Mission Beach between Innisfail and Cardwell, 1500km north of Brisbane at approximately midnight on February 3, 2011. Authorities evacuated 75,000 residents and scrambled to rescue those in the wake of tsunami...
