In 1845 persistent stories and sightings began to emerge of a huge amphibious creature that dwelled in swamps and creeks and killed anyone who got too close to the water. But despite never being found ...

On many continents during the last ice age, typically from about 50,000 to 12,000 years ago, species of megafauna that had lived there for hundreds of thousands of years became extinct. Comparatively ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. According to Aboriginal stories, bunyips are terrifying creatures that live in rivers and waterholes ...

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Just when you thought filmmakers were running out of creatures to make movies about, comes a monster whose legend began long ago thanks to Aboriginal mythology. Yeah, it has a pretty goofy name, but ...

An unusual bone had been found on the shore of Lake Colongulac, near Camperdown. The creature it belonged to must have been gigantic; the fragment of leg suggested the animal’s knee joint had a ...