The Australian Reptile Park's spider keeper says she named the spider Hemsworth because the arachnid towers over other spiders, like the Hemsworth brothers Cover Images via AP Images From the same zoo ...

SYDNEY — This will make you shudder. An Australian man thought there were six venomous red-bellied black snakes slithering in a pile of mulch in his backyard. Instead, there were 102 of them -- ...

A ginormous and deadly funnel-web spider has been handed in to a reptile park in Australia, where staff said it was the largest of its kind they’d ever seen. Fittingly named Hemsworth, the spider ...

The Mary River Turtle, an Australian freshwater species, possesses the extraordinary ability to breathe through its rear, ...

(Reuters) -Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ago are rewriting the history of the evolution of land ...