Queensland

A 33-year-old man was taken to hospital by personnel from the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and is reportedly in a stable condition.

"The Carpet Python did its best to try and eat it upside down but the possum proved too heavy for the snake to hold," Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers wrote on Facebook.

The woman was said to have had a "hell of a fright" when she discovered the red-bellied black snake in her car.

The large carpet python may have entered the house through a garage door that was left open.

Stretching nearly 10 feet long, the snakes were "some of the biggest and fattest" ever seen, according to a local official.

The 29-year-old woman told local reporters "I still love sharks. Sharks are beautiful," on her way to the hospital.

"There's... crocodiles in the proximity of where the vessel was located and other marine activity that would be quite concerning if someone were to have entered the water," one police officer said.

The ornate eagle ray is wideley distributed across the Western Indo-Pacific but is naturally low in numbers and populations are declining.

"This type of feeding is very risky, as dolphins run the risk of remaining stranded," said researcher Daniele Cagnazzi.

"A huge albino Burmese python! How damn beautiful is this snake," the snake catcher who captured the massive reptile wrote on social media. "It's such a shame that they are illegal here in Australia."

Barbara Marincic, 83, was spotted in a cane field by crew members of an RACQ Central Queensland rescue helicopter just before 2 p.m. on Monday—after about four days missing from her home.

Information stored by a geologist's daughter contained data that helped determine the makers of a series of dinosaur tracks found on a cave ceiling in Australia.

The photo was taken by wildlife photographer Kristian Laine, who spotted the uniquely pigmented ray near Lady Elliot Island.

The 26-year-old student was found in "surprisingly good spirits," according to the Queensland Ambulance Service who were at the scene.

Footage shows 20 sharks as they wait for pipis to emerge from the sea on Torres Strait beach on Mer Island, Australia.

"It just seems to me that every bat in Australia is now in Ingham," Raymon Jayo, mayor of Hinchinbrook, said.

The injured crocodile was found with a steel arrow piercing its body and several stab wounds to its neck and throat in northern Queensland, Australia.

Coree Summerville had been fishing at The Strand Pier in Townsville in Queensland, Australia, when he spotted a struggling turtle.

"It's not something you see every day," the tour operator who shared the photo suggested.

"She had a confrontation with what we believe is a lemon shark and managed to get her foot into the shark's mouth somehow," a LifeFlight rescue team spokesperson said.

Authorities said the man, who is in his 30s, was bitten on the leg while in waters off the coast of North West Island in Queensland, Australia.

"It was just pulling him under, into the bush," said the child's father Evan Thompson. "I knew I had to do something so I ran straight up and punched it straight in the head."

The snake responsible for the unexpected bite is believed to have been an eastern brown or a death adder, officials said. The victim was identified by police as a 54-year-old male, of Queensland.

Craig Dickmann was fishing when the animal struck.

Swedish couple Emma Andersson and Billy Ludvigsson spoke of the drama when they saved the lives of the British backpackers attacked by a shark in the Whitsunday Islands off the northeastern Queensland coast.

"It's a good time to warn people about getting close to the water's edge when you're not attuned to the ways of nature," said Noel Waterman of the Indigenous Knowledge Centre.

The altercation took place at an address in Townsville, north Queensland.

Riley Brown had a close encounter with a shark while surfing with his friends at Woorim Beach in Australia.

A scientist told "Newsweek" he was shocked to find some and coral communities have vanished completely since 1928.

"They were punching us. They were kicking us," the victim recounted. "We were both down on the ground. We weren't able to defend ourselves."