A surfer in Australia caused a stir when he was spotted with a carpet python wrapped around his neck while surfing. Although it is legal to keep pythons as pets, the surfer did not have the necessary permit to take the snake out in public. The Queensland Department of Environment and Science explained that snakes are not typically found in water as they are cold-blooded creatures, and the python would have found the ocean water too cold.
A decade before the turn of the century in the fictional town of Perfection, Nevada, Val McKee and Earl Bassett (played by Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, respectively) run face first into a species of giant subterranean worms. The so-called Graboids wreak havoc on the town’s few remaining residents, forcing them to band together if they want to survive. The events of Tremors and the charm of its cast cemented its place in monster movie history, by placing a handful of ordinary people within grabbing
When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps.