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The land Down Under is known for hosting any number of creatures great and small that can kill you. Rowers competing at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games will face that challenge after their event was approved Thursday for the waters of the Fitzroy River which hosts more than 600 saltwater crocodiles. That’s not all. Lethal Australian box jellyfish have also been found found near the mouth and tidal saltwater sections of the central Queensland river’s waters in the past. Add bull sharks and deadly snakes amongst its potential lethal predators in the water and along the banks. Not that any...

Great whites and tigers are bigger, but the scariest shark people are likely to encounter in Florida is the bull shark. A bull was blamed in the fatal attack June 25 on a 14-year-old girl, bitten in the leg as she swam off the beach in Walton County in the Panhandle. A bull is also suspected in an attack Monday, when a shark bit a teenager swimming in waist-deep water 80 miles from the site of the Saturday attack. Doctors amputated the boy's leg, but he is expected to recover. A third attack, on Friday, injured an Austian who was...