I Flipped 100 Rocks in Australia, Here's What I Found... #NatureDiscovery #ScienceInNature #facts

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:00]Australia is known for the craziest and deadliest animals. That's why I'm going there to flip 100 objects to find crazy bugs, venomous creatures, and so much more underneath. I'll be starting in Australia's most iconic rainforest. But by the end, we're going to get [music] to the iconic Australian desert with insane animals everywhere. But don't think the rainforest is boring because literally under this first object, I instantly found something deadly. This is a baby giant centipede, which when they get older are known for having some of the most painful bites [music] in the animal kingdom. Since we're on Australia, we're very likely to see a way bigger one soon. Under the second object, I found something I've always wanted to find. Oh my gosh, I thought there was nothing here, but there's a literal massive bug. But that's exactly part of this bug's design. This is a spiny leaf insect. One of the most camouflaged insects in existence. You could barely even see it when it was standing on this leaf. Pretty cool. So, I kept exploring and when I got to object number three, I found nothing.

[00:00:58]So, I'm only going to show the most interesting animals from now on, which thankfully object number six had something super interesting. At first, you may just think these are regular old ants, but [music] if you look closely, it's actually an insane species. They are trap jaw ants, which you can tell by their massively wide trap jaw mandibles.

[00:01:16]They have these microscopic hairs inside the jaws that when a prey touches it, the jaws snap within a fraction of a second, making it almost impossible for prey to escape. Yeah, Australia is crazy. Now, as I continued on the trail, I was going to flip this log, but on top, I noticed there was actually a special species of millipede, which apparently has the ability to spit acid out of its mouth. Now, if you didn't know, with me, I have the backpack where I packed tons of cool objects to interact with the animals I find. And this time I grabbed a pack of paint brushes. I wanted to see how this bug would react to being rubbed by one. And yeah, he was pretty mad. Initially, he kept curling up and biting the end of the brush, but eventually I caught it doing this. Yep, it just sprayed its acid defense chemical, which stained the edge of my paintbrush. And yeah, it just kept biting it [music] over and over.

[00:02:03]Well, sorry for disturbing you little guy. That was pretty cool to watch, though. Now, as I continued on to object number 11, I found this. It's not a rock. It's actually a termite nest.

[00:02:12]Yeah, termites will spend years day by day constructing a nest out of dirt.

[00:02:17]Sometimes they even get absolutely massive like this one. Although this one looked like it may have been abandoned and there was something infiltrating it.

[00:02:24]Yo, there's like a weird tail thing coming out of this nest.

[00:02:27]>> Yeah, it was literally partly inside the termite nest and poking its head out. I thought I had found some undocumented snake species or maybe a leech. But if you actually really focus hard on how this thing is moving and in specific [music] this tiny little white thing on the edge of its head, you can tell that this is a baby land plenarian. If you don't know what these are, well, they are insanely creepy. In this footage, you can see how they eat. Basically, they go up to an unsuspecting snail or worm. Then all of a sudden, they completely wrap around it, releasing a sticky mucus to make it impossible for the prey to escape. Then they push some weird alien tube out their body that they can inject into the prey to then slurp up the insides like a smoothie. Uh yeah, talk about brutal. I think I'm going to have to leave you alone. Now, under object number 16, I found a cricket, which I just thought was cool because in America, the crickets are a bright tan color usually, but this [music] one was way darker. Now, I quickly took out the backpack and grabbed a clear container out from inside. Yeah, if you didn't know, these crickets make an excellent food source for other animals I'll find, so I'll be saving this to feed it to something later. As I continued walking through this beautiful rainforest, I came across a little creek. [music] This looks like the perfect water area for deadly crocodiles to be swimming in. Oh, maybe I shouldn't be standing so close, actually. Yeah, I don't know why everything in Australia is so deadly, but [music] I went and flipped some rocks along the river where I of course found a little earthworm. Nice. Under another river rock, I found a pretty [music] solidized beetle grub. You can see it was quite a bit bigger than my glove fingertip. But some of these beetle grubs will seriously grow so large over the course of a few years that they may turn into beetles that are just genuinely insane.

[00:04:02]>> All right, let me put your rock back, mister. Hopefully, you turn into a amazing massive beetle one day. But as I left the river a little bit, I found easily the [music] weirdest thing yet.

[00:04:12]>> Wait a second. I don't know if you guys can see, but there's something moving under this log. Yeah, it was a bunch of extremely weird white things moving around constantly. I had to get out the backpack to grab a flashlight so I can get a better look at what was going on.

[00:04:27]This gave me a bit of a better view to see that inside of here was tons and tons of super [music] thin legs, but they were just shaking so much that I had no clue what these things were until I poked this stick inside which gave me a slightly better look at one of them.

[00:04:42]Yeah, if we pause at the perfect moment, it may look like some sort of spider, but in reality, this is a phantom crane fly. Apparently, [music] footage of these guys is insanely hard to get because, well, they shake like crazy when they detect a predator. But in this rare footage I found, you can see how they fly like an alien spaceship. I'm not even going to lie, this might be the coolest fly species on Earth. What? For object 29, I flipped some of these Dead Sea things and found another super cool ant species. You can see by these guys awesome gold and green color that they are Australian weaver ants. And what's so interesting is you see how this guy has its green abdomen pointing up? Well, that's actually their special ability.

[00:05:20]While most ants have mandibles or stingers to take down their prey, but weaver ants literally have an acid spray in their abdomen that they use to either defend themselves like these ants or spray other attacking ants. Yeah, they also built bridges out of their bodies to help the rest of the colony walk [music] across leaves. Talk about a crazy ant species. Now, the next animal I found was actually under a tree. If you look closely, there is actually some sort of bug that looked like it was just floating right under here. I had to put the stick behind it so my camera would focus on it. And after it did, I saw that this is actually a super cool animal called an inchworm. These guys are basically able to float under trees by spinning a tiny thread of silk that connects them to the leaves [music] above. So, they can just hang from it.

[00:06:02]But this guy actually climbed onto the stick I was holding. And when I went to put him back, you could see how they have some of the funniest movement.

[00:06:08]Since their legs are only on the front and back of their body, they just walk around by curling their entire body up like this. Seems like a lot of effort, but yeah, I just put this guy right back. Now, object 41 was this coconut, which I found out something super cool about. But interestingly, I first noticed that there was actually one of those trap jaw ants from earlier biting onto my finger. Yeah, I wasn't joking about how strong these things jaws are, and he was glued onto my hand just trying to inject his venomous stinger in. Good thing I had these gloves on.

[00:06:35]Anyways, what is so interesting about this coconut is almost this perfect circle drilled into the side of it. This is not natural. It's actually a sign of a giant white-tailed rat. You see, these things live in the Australian rainforest and find fallen coconuts. They then use their insanely large teeth to drill a massive hole into coconuts, which most animals can't do. Then they drink up all the coconut water and eat some of that tasty white meat on the inside. But after the rat leaves, other bugs also come in here, like these sap beetles, to eat the bacteria that grows inside.

[00:07:06]Dang, a lot of life in one single coconut. So, I kept on exploring and when I flipped object 44, I found some of the [music] weirdest springtails I've ever seen. If you didn't know, springtails are tiny little bugs that are usually white, but these ones in Australia I found are bright red. That may not seem super interesting, but if you didn't know, there's a massive market online of people buying and selling super rare springtail species.

[00:07:30]And apparently, 10 Australian red springtails sells for over $30. So yeah, if I was smart, I'd grab these and sell them, but I don't want to interfere with the wildlife, so I'll let them be. Now, this trail is awesome because not only does it end up in the iconic Australian red desert, but it also passed by a literal beach. Yeah, the rainforest was connected to the water here, so I figured I should flip a couple seaside rocks. Under some of them were these aquatic snails with these pretty cool looking shells. And out of other rocks, crabs would dart out looking for cover.

[00:07:59]I wanted to get a close-up of that crab that ran out. So, I flipped the rock right [music] next to it and found an even bigger crab.

[00:08:05]>> Oh, look at him, bro. He's just staring at me with his claws up.

[00:08:09]>> Yeah, you could see compared to the size of my finger, he could definitely give me a pretty [music] good pinch. But thankfully, he went and retreated down into his perfectly placed hole. Now, there was also some tiny fish here that I tried to catch with his net from the backpack, but they were just so unbelievably fast, if you can even see them moving around in this footage. This ocean is crazy, though, because the [music] Great Barrier Reef is literally less than 10 miles from where I was standing. That place is home to some [music] of the craziest and deadliest ocean life in the world. So, I think I'll definitely come back here to make an underwater video one day. Make sure you're subscribed so when I come [music] back here, you'll get notified about the insane video I make. Anyways, yeah, let's keep exploring. Now, back in the rainforest, I ended up finding a little log and flipped it. underneath was just some super tiny [music] kind of boring ants, which normally I wouldn't show, but as I was watching back this footage, I noticed this leaf had something [music] super cool on it. See all those weird bumps perfectly laid out across the leaf? Well, those are eggs.

[00:09:02]Apparently, there's a bug called a large leafooted bug that lays their eggs on the bottom of leaves and apparently are able to lay them in this perfect brick formation, which I just find interesting how symmetrical it is. As I continued down the rainforest trail, I found something pretty crazy. Yo, these have got to be the biggest [music] fruits I've seen in my life. And in fact, this is actually the largest fruit in the world called a jack fruit. But what was cool was that it was split open by some animal and was completely rotting. Tons of wildlife was eating it up like these flies. And it even had some little worm larae things that were just eating their fair share of it, too. Must be pretty tasty. Just kidding. That looks absolutely nasty. Now, the next thing I found was under another tree, but my camera wasn't really focusing on it. So, I held the backpack up behind it to show you guys what it is. It may look like some sort of moth butterfly thing caught on a spiderweb, but in fact, this yellow triangle thing is the spider [music] itself. It's a type of northern jewel spider. And yeah, they're born with these crazy rocksolid sharp patterns on their back. This makes it so spiders biggest predators, birds, have a way harder time eating them. The last animal I found in the rainforest section was under this log. It was another crab, but this time it was a lean crab, which is a little bit different than the beach crab we found earlier. These guys actually quite enjoy eating crickets. And if you remember in the backpack, I actually caught a cricket in this container earlier in the video, which um might kind of not be alive anymore, but it'll still make for some great food. So, I brought it over to the crab and waved it around in front of him. He kind of pretended to grab it, but then all of a sudden, he darted away so fast into a little puddle. He was probably a little bit scared of me.

[00:10:38]>> Well, I'll leave that with you, little buddy, if you want to eat it. Well, I finally made it to the Australia desert, which has some of the most deadliest animals on Earth. And that was instantly proven because under this first rock was another baby centipede. But this guy was still pretty small. However, I'm super confident we're going to find a way bigger one. Now, under this little piece of bark, there wasn't actually anything.

[00:10:58]But I did see something running around in the corner of my eye. So, I went to try and catch it. When I did, I realized it was a burrowing frog, which apparently didn't want to be with me cuz it just jumped straight off my hand. But a frog means there's likely water nearby. And after walking around a little bit, I found this little pool. Oh my gosh, there's so much stuff in here.

[00:11:16]I wanted to get a closer look at some of the stuff in here. So, I once again took out the backpack and once again grabbed out that clear container. This let me scoop up some of the wildlife in there, which allowed me to catch the first aquatic animal, a tadpole. This is likely the same species of frog I had just found. So, it's pretty cool we found this. Anyways, the second animal I was able to scoop out of here was quite a bit different. This super weird, almost alien looking creature is actually a dragonfly larvae. Yeah, we've all seen dragonflies. They're pretty insane, cool looking bugs. Yeah, apparently they start just as weird as babies living under the water. Now, finally, I was seeing one last creature in this pool of water. So, I scooped it up. Yeah, these things are almost microscopic in size, but this is either some sort of water beetle or a type of shrimp. I can't really tell which one because of how blurry my footage was, but these guys are probably one of the main food sources of that dragonfly larvae we had just seen. Now, as I continued on the trail, I ended up flipping rock [music] 72 where something actually pretty cool did appear. If you look closely, this is a completely bright white spider. I've never seen a completely solid white spider, but apparently these are this color because it helps reflect the sunlight as it just gets so hot in these Australian deserts.

[00:12:25]This next rock also had something pretty cool. It was giant wood cockroaches. But what was even cooler was that right next to these guys was this bug running around. This is a top whiddler bug. And apparently it's in the same family of bugs that laid those crazy eggs earlier in the video. I'm happy we got to find one of these. But finally, after quite a lot of rock flips later of nothing, I finally found something I was looking for. And it kind of scared me when I first flipped the rock. But finally, I had found a fully grown giant centipede.

[00:12:53]These things are crazy fast. So I kept getting spooked whenever I looked in my direction. But yeah, apparently despite having some of the most painful bites, it doesn't even have teeth. It actually injects its venom through two of its front legs that have been modified to attack prey. And while other invertebrates just go for small insects like scorpions, centipedes are known to take down literal lizards for lunch.

[00:13:15]Pretty crazy. Thankfully, the next rock that had something under it also didn't disappoint. Out from underneath, ran a little type of velvet gecko. I didn't get to see it for long, but geckos are always pretty cool to find just cuz of how interesting of an animal they are.

[00:13:28]They're also some of the most common pet reptiles kept by people. Now, these next rock flips all rapid fire because I wasn't finding anything super insane, but I did find some termites finally.

[00:13:36]Also, I found this kind of cool grasshopper which just jumped into the grass and I found a super cute caterpillar with a pretty unique pattern. If you're wondering, this caterpillar species turns into this pretty cool moth. But now, I only had one more rock flip till I got to 100.

[00:13:50]And I really wanted to find a snake here. So, I really locked in to find the best rock [music] I could that could have a snake under it. I needed to find a rock like this that had a little gap [music] under it where a snake could be.

[00:14:01]Thankfully, it didn't take too long till I ended up finding this. Oh, yo, is that a lizard tail or is that a snake? But as I moved my camera to get a better angle, I was almost certain I had found the body of a snake here. So, I very carefully moved the rock to get a little bit of a better look at what was under here. Thankfully, this didn't look like one of Australia's deadly snakes. In fact, based off the pattern, it looked like a Simpsons python, which take down their prey by constricting it, not with venom. I swear, every single rock flipping video, I find something cool on the last rock. But dang, I mean, I don't really want to stress you out, bro. So, I guess I'll just leave you under your rock. Well, there was 100 rock flips in Australia for you. Honestly, I found so many cool and unique bugs that make this trip worth it. But I know Australia has so much more to offer in regards to crazy animals. So, I'm definitely coming back out here one day to make a part two. Subscribe so you can see that. Yo, I just saw another snake. It's the Terra Green snake plushy. Yep, I talk about the merch every video, but seriously, this helps support the channel. Also, if you want to check out the merch guys, it's on terry greenstore.com.