You probably know that Australia is famous for giant snakes and spooky spiders... but oh... there's SO much more. Join Hank Green as he shows you seven truly terrifying Australian inhabitants that you might not have heard of—and some are downright deadly.

Sydney funnel-web spider photo by Tirin

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Sources:
Magpies:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=OzgL...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/wo...
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3783916?s...
http://www.publish.csiro.au/MU/MU99011
http://www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR01108
http://www.abc.net.au/science/article...

Ticks:
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/mai...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2009/1...
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2017/2...

Giant centipedes:
https://australianmuseum.net.au/giant...
http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/7/3/679
http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/20...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Strychnine trees:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1...
http://jtropag.kau.in/index.php/ojs2/...
https://www.thieme-connect.com/produc...

Cone snails:
http://www.jbc.org/content/286/25/225...
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ee3e... [PDF]
https://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilde...
http://ucgd.genetics.utah.edu/wp-cont... [PDF]

Gympie Gympies:
http://www.australiangeographic.com.a...
https://www.writingclearscience.com.a... [PDF]
https://web.b.ebscohost.com/abstract?...

Irukandji jellyfish:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9...
https://journals.lww.com/em-news/Full...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18...
http://www.australiangeographic.com.a...