Australia is the most notorious country on Earth for deadly wildlife. The red continent is thick with venomous snakes and spiders, toothy sharks and crocodiles, baby-eating dingoes, and the cassowary ...

If Australia is renowned for one thing, it's the proportion of highly dangerous animals that populate the continent. The three most venomous snakes in the world are from Australia (with a few others ...

High above Sydney's beaches, drones seek one of the world's deadliest predators, scanning for the flick of a tail, the swish ...

Seeing these dead beasts suspended by their tails elicited a "gallows-like" feeling, he recounts, but not fear. Sharks were ...

Scientists suspect a deadly strain of bird flu, H5N1, has infected wildlife on Heard Island after observing a high mortality ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

The box jellyfish is the most dangerous jellyfish in the world. Learn where it's found, why its venom is so deadly, and how ...

More than 1,280 shark incidents have been recorded around Australia since 1791 — about 260 of them fatal — according to a national database. Though still relatively rare, fatal attacks do appear to be ...