In wayback news (my favorite kind, all new news is bad news), this is a video from the Australian Public Broadcast service on August 31st, 1962 asking Sydney residents if they think there’s life on other planets. The answers range from “no” to one guy having seen a UFO. Most
Because if everything is bigger in Texas, then Australia is Texas working out in prison on butt-smuggled steroids, dead set on revenge as soon as it can break out (possibly Kool-Aid Man style), this is a video of a massive 6 pound toad that was found by park rangers in
This is a video of two Buzzfeed Australia journalists (does that make me a journalist too?) ordering the same Subway sub as the person in front of them at the drive-thru, then rating those sandwiches. Of course they’re in Australia, so the sandwiches are already a little different. Also, I’ve
Because nothing says Australia quite like kangaroos and boomerangs, this is a video of the two combined into a kangaroo shaped boomerang crafted by Redditor Ravi from Texas (wait, what?). Damn, that thing flies NICE. Did you know there are left-handed and right-handed boomerangs? I did not, which might explain
Note: Watch your volume, man reacting to giant spider in car. This is a dashcam video from (where else?) Australia of a giant huntsman spider making an appearance while a driver desperately tries to maintain his composure at 96km/h (~60MPH) and not crash into anything. Kudos to him too, because
This is a video of a panicking Queensland, Australia woman successfully ushering a particularly juicy looking tarantula into a plastic bin for removal from her home. Nice job. I guess it was either this or start a fire, and I assume she has a lot of irreplaceable family heirlooms in
This is a short Instagram video of a large huntsman spider in North Queensland, Australia that decides it’s going to steal a man’s vintage ATV and jumps at the man when he tries to to reclaim his property. Some more fascinating information about spiders and their affinity for four-wheelers: Arachnologist
This is a video from New South Wales, Australia of hundreds of thousands of wolf spiders that have evacuated their burrows to reach higher ground and avoid rising flood waters. I’m not gonna lie, that does not look like a very good time to me. When I think of good