Komodo dragons are a popular drawcard on the small Indonesian island named after them. But authorities say tourists try to smuggle the lizards out of the country.
Denial is comfortable when you are faced with the thought of a spider crawling on your face in your sleep.
It's not every day that a 104-year-old upstanding citizen is handcuffed and taken away in a police car with sirens blaring.
Two mates were turning a corner in north Queensland this week when the poorly tied-down boat slid off the trailer.
The new emoji personalised plates will be available in Queensland from March 1 and offer five design options.
It started with the sixth-grader's refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and allegedly escalated to resisting an officer.
Five faces will be available to motorists but one law expert wondered why a road rage expression wasn't among the options.
Kewal Shiels might tower above the rest of us,but his size 17 shoes are planted firmly on the ground.
A woman went to an abandoned house to smoke marijuana but inside the garage,she found a male tiger in a cage.
A zookeeper said trees in the chimps'enclosure had been weakened by recent storms,allowing the primates to break them and fashion a ladder.
Krista Hupman,a biologist in New Zealand who studies the faeces of leopard seals,described her"weirdest"find yet.