An Australian father was diagnosed with salmonella and died in December after eating gecko. (Photo: YULI SEPERI/Barcroft Media via Getty Images) An Australian man who allegedly ate a gecko on a dare ...

A man who ate a gecko at a party for a dare died after he "rotted from the inside out," his family say. David Dowell, who was 34 when he died in December last year, is thought to have eaten the gecko ...

They won’t eat each other, and the family of marsupials does not seem to mind that the lizard is using them for warmth. By Anthony Ham When Alex Hams, a land conservation manager at Bush Heritage ...

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Dad of three David Dowell was always known as a lovable hooligan and a man who would never back down from a dare, but one he took last year — when a friend dared him to eat a gecko at a Christmas ...