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Give it a stretch–only if it’s already dead, you chucklehead–and it can easily double in length. But perhaps its most remarkable creature is a gentle, extremely delicate colossus few have had the privilege of glimpsing: the giant Gippsland earthworm, which can grow to some 6 feet long. The continent’s long isolation has given rise to an incredibly unique diversity of life that, yes, includes some extremely lethal critters. But the truth is there are plenty of harmless animals and even a handful of harmless humans in Australia. They say everything in Australia can kill you: crazy-poisonous eastern brown snakes, enormous saltwater crocodiles, and, until recently, the late ill-tempered supercriminal Mark “Chopper” Read.