New giant insect discovered in the Australian rainforest could be country's heaviest

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Norion said:

curl-6 said:

Nice, I'd like to visit Scotland someday.

Fun fact; here in Australia cattle and horses are also the most dangerous animals in terms of actual death toll haha.

All our venomous spiders and snakes and stuff don't actually kill that many people, like we have the world's deadliest spiders but the last confirmed spider death was in 1979.

Huh I wouldn't have expected that. I guess the reputation Australian wildlife has really is overblown. You mentioned the brutal heat earlier and Scotland is quite good in that regard since Summers aren't that bad and the past few weeks have been only a bit warmer than I would like so pretty comfortable. Winters go below freezing but only somewhat in an area like mine so it's quite manageable for both heat and cold.

Yeah the "dangerous wildlife" is really overblown to be honest, the spiders are mostly harmless and those that aren't mostly keep to themselves, and while we have the world's deadliest snakes, they only kill like 2-3 people a year in the whole country.

A lot of Australia is farmland, so we spend a lot of time around cattle and horses, thus lots of opportunities for accidents.