Family films 'strange' creature in Hawkesbury River - but can you tell what it really is?
  Thylacine; the Improbable Tiger
  Night parrot sighting in Western Australia shocks birdwatching world
  Tasmanian tiger 'sightings' spark scientific study on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula
  Arizona Man Releases ‘Chupacabras’ Pictures
  Does the Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) Still Exist? (2016)
  Beware of creepy creatures
  'Loveland Frogman' Spotted Again?
  Talking Point: Look a tiger in the eye
  The Myth Of 19th Century Pterodactyls
  Fox hunt: Tasmania's multi-million-dollar program likely based on hoax, leaked report finds
  Byron Bay fish captures global attention after diver finds it hitching ride in jellyfish
  Byron Bay fish captures global attention after diver finds it hitching ride in jellyfish
  Meet a newly discovered family of snail-chomping carnivorous Australian marsupials
 
  'Thames Monster' Video: Hoax or Mammal?
 
  It's literally raining fish in western Queensland
 
  Kangaroo photos 'fundamentally misinterpreted': wildlife expert
 
  Ancient crocodile discovered in the Sahara was almost the size of a bus
 
  Bark-eating koalas chewing on gumtrees near Canberra, wildlife researchers say
 
  Giant killer lizard fossil shines new light on early Australians
 
  Is the Beast of Dartmoor back in South Devon?  Update: Hoax
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Strange Animals
Queensland:
 
Banaraga Devils
Brisbane River Monsters
Buderim Beast
Burnett Bunyip
Cave Monster of Booie
Haunted Lagoon, Eurombah
Innisfail Sea Serpent
Logan Alligator
Lowood Bunyip
Teddington/Tiaro Lion
Yengarie Lion
Miscellaneous
 
South Australia:
 
Escaped Baboon
Hairy Nondescript of Crystal Brook
Tantanoola Tiger
Miscellaneous
 
 
Western Australia:
 
Northam Monster
Rottnest Monster
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
New South Wales:
 
Angourie Crocodile
Barwon Crocodile
Erskin Gap Monster
Jamberoo Tiger
Liverpool Monster
Murrumbidgee Bunyip
Myambat Monster
Narooma Monster
Strange Animal, Wuuluman
Tumut Bunyip
Miscellaneous
 
 
Victoria:
 
Briagolong Tiger
Kancoona Tiger
Moe Beast
Morwell Lion
Straits Tiger
Wonthaggi Beast
Yackandandah Gorilla
Miscellaneous
 
 
Tasmania:
 
Miscellaneous
 
 
International:
 
Essex Lion (UK)
 
Kumi (New Zealand)
 
Loch Ness Monster (Scotland)
 
Mboya Jagwa (Paraguay)
 
Sea Serpent Reports
Northern Territory:
 
Darwin Monkey
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Australian Capital Territory:
 
What Was It
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wonderful Wildlife 2018:
 
 
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The forgotten political feud that spawned the Jersey Devil: Opinion
 
by Brian Regal
August 18, 2013
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Rosa Praed's
"The Bunyip"
(1891)
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Expedition by Russian Geographic Society to look for lake beast
 
by Sharon Hill
March 6, 2014
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Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope
 
by Matt Simon
May 14, 2014
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  Is this the skeleton of legendary devil dog Black Shuck who terrorised 16th century East Anglia?
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  Flippered visitor gives north Queensland his seal of approval
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  Bowen lion theory has gone to the dogs
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  Sydney panther legend surfaces in Goulburn after couple photograph predator on property
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  Big black cat spotted on Austinmer bush track
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Denmark 'pours $428k' into researching fictional troll
 
October 29, 2014
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Investigation of claims of late-surviving pterosaurs: the cases of the winged dragons of Belon, Aldrovandi, and Cardinal Barberini
 
by Phil Senter and Darius M. Klein
November, 2014
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  Polar bear DNA from footprints in Arctic snow reveal bloody killing of seal
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  The truth will be revealed: I have seen the Tassie tiger
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  Farmer says he's spotted black panther twice
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  Confrontational behaviour and bipedality in deer
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  Rare and terrifying frilled shark catch in Victorian waters
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  Meet the Multi-Headed Caterpillar
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  Even Elusive Animals Leave DNA, and Clues, Behind
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  Illawarra panther picture provokes photo frenzy
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  Of Bunyips and Boulia Lights
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  The Quest for the Tasmanian Tiger
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  Rare and bizarre Goblin shark to be exhibited at Australian Museum
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  Rainbow lorikeets eating meat leaves bird experts astonished
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  Eye on the tiger: trailing the elusive thylacine
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  Rare Omura's whale carcass find in Western Australia excites scientists
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  'Dinosaur fish' appears in Vietnam
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  Holy mackerel! Girl, 10, attacked off beach at Lennox Head

  Is there a big black cat on the Illawarra escarpment?

  Snake eats crocodile after epic fight in Queensland

  Western Australia shark cull is driven by irrational fear

  Scientists discover new species with fatal attraction on Queensland's Gold Coast hinterland

  Decapitated silver sea blob washes up in Aparri, Cagayan

  Were the Wild Things Aren't

  The Snake Lady

  Night Parrot

  True believer hopes hidden cameras will solve mystery of Tasmanian tiger
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My uncle, the Jersey Devil: One man's quest to set the record straight on a N.J. legend
 
by S.P. Sullivan
June 30, 2015
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  Macarthur Panther: Are we really seeing large feral cats?
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 2015:
 2014:
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  Tasmanian tiger sighting at Venus Bay on South Gippsland coast
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  New Zealand Family on Vacation Finds Black Fish with 'Legs'
 
  Australian birds keep deliberately starting bushfires
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  Australia's marsupial lions 'dropped from trees' to attack prey, study finds
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The truth about a strange blood-sucking monster
 
By Josh Gabbatiss
November 10, 2016
 
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  Group claims extinct Tassie tiger may have been captured on camera
  Alligator long way from home (2008)
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Indirect Tracking of Drop Bears Using GNSS Technology
 
by Volker Janssen
December 10, 2012
  Searching for the elusive taniwha
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 2016:
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Paradox on the Queensland Frontier: Platypus, lungfish and other vagaries of nineteenth-century science (2000)
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Australia:
 
Bunyip
Night Parrot
Wild-/Hairy Man
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Conversations with the bunyip (2006)
29.03.2017 The Ozenkadnook Tiger Photo Revealed as a Hoax
24.03.2017 Jack the Insider: The prank that took 53 years to debunk
 
2017: Man-Eating Teddy Bears of the Scrub: Exploring the Australian Drop Bear Urban Legend
01.04.2013 Drop bears target tourists, study says
20.10.2012 Indirect Tracking of Drop Bears Using GNSS Technology
 
  Houston resident calls animal control to remove 'alligator' that turns out to be lizard
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Coelacanth
 2017:
  Scientists highlight plight of endangered Australian 'genital breathing' turtle
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  Curious North Coast: How far south did crocodiles once live?
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  Tweed Panther Spotted?
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  Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886
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Big black cat 'five times the size of a feral' spotted west of Sydney
Wonderful Wildlife 2019:
 
 
  Chasing the tiger with stealth, smarts and science
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  Thylacine Dreams: The Vernacular Resurrection of an Extinct Marsupial
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Chasing Chupacabras: Why People Would Rather Believe in a Bloodsucking Red-eyed Monster from OuterSpace than in a Pack of Hungry Dogs (2003)
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Hunting Dinosaurs in Central Africa
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Night parrot research labelled 'fake news' by experts after release of damning report
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The Australian Bunyip Might Have Actually Existed
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Sugarloaf panther revives tales of strange animals of the Aussie bush