Australian Animals That Won't Kill You, Ranked (Kotaku)

Even whale there had shark teeth:

“It’s essentially a little whale with big eyes and a mouth full of sharp, slicing teeth ... Imagine the shark-like version of a baleen whale – small and deceptively cute, but definitely not harmless,” said Ruairidh Duncan, lead author of the study,

The prehistoric whale had a short snout, large forward-facing eyes about the size of tennis balls and sharp slicing teeth, researchers say.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/prehistoric-whale-razor-sharp-teeth-093842338.html
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzl2zj72jo
's not just the dazzling colours and slick moves of Australia's dancing spiders that make them special.

There are more than 100 different species of the peacock spider, whereas most animals have only five or ten.

Researchers believe that's partly down to the spider's 'dark DNA' - a mysterious part of the animal's genetic code, and they are studying it to find out more.

They think that this dark DNA might enable it to adapt rapidly to changing environmental circumstances by developing into new species.
 
And that´s why English colonists swarmed Australia wearing those strange wigs.
"I catch you" says the Drop-Croc... Ooops no.
 

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