She’s not your parents’ Carrie. While Patrick deWitt’s new offering, Dodge City, contains elements of the classic road novel, it also confidently subverts others. Protagonist Lee Clarke, sets off on a ...

After losing his England spot and being criticised as a one-trick pony, the 25-year-old has had to overcome his fair share of adversity in the past two years. But he has come through those dark times.

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This video shows a large white rhinoceros grazing in open grassland surrounded by low shrubs and dense green woodland in ...

A massive king cobra takes on and devours a python in a dramatic encounter between two powerful snakes.

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Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

A Florida snake hunter, his wife, and their two kids were able to wrestle and take out a whopping 202-pound Burmese python in a battle that saw the slithering beast drag the professional some 15 feet ...

In many languages, the most common slang words concern body parts, sex, money and intoxicating substances. Yet Mr Green does not think slang is trivial. In 2010 his dictionary came out in a ...

A snake expert who catches chook-pen pythons to huge eastern browns in the burbs has spoken out as bite callouts increase across Qld and one region emerges as a deadly hotspot. SEE THE LIST. In ...

Record size: up to 32 cm snout-vent length (SVL) and up to 3.25 kg body mass-largest extant frog. Exceptional adult size and mass (largest living frog) Robust body with long, powerful hind limbs ...