This Bearded Dragon loves his iPad...
Here's a short video that's been immensely popular lately on Youtube - an Australian bearded dragon 'going for broke' trying to eat digital ants as they run down the screen of its owner's iPad in the...
View ArticleRogue human-killing sharks 'only in Hollywood'
Monster serial-killing sharks only belong in Hollywood, according to shark expert Christopher Neff, who says there is no scientific basis for the fear instilled in people by the famous Jaws...
View ArticleMystery surrounds discovery of 25 dead ponies
The discovery of 25 dead ponies in remote bushland has stumped police and veterinarians and horrified locals.The gruesome discovery, just off the New England Highway near Glen Innes, in the state's...
View ArticleTasmanian beach yields familiar fossil
When Hobart couple Bob and Penny Tyson went fossil-hunting on a Tasmanian beach, they weren't expecting to find a rare 250-million-year-old specimen embedded in the rocks.The remains were of a...
View ArticleMichael Sharland and the search for the Thylacine
In 1938, Michael Sharland led a Royal Zoological Society trip to the western Tasmania in search of the thylacine. They found evidence of existence of the thylacine, bringing back stories, photographs...
View ArticleMystery of 25 dead ponies solved
A man has been charged with animal cruelty after 25 dead ponies were found near a cliff in northern NSW last week.The bodies of the 25 ponies were discovered by police at a cliff near a truck parking...
View ArticleCroc cuts lawnmower's grass
Zookeeper Billy Collett was one of two men attacked by a five-metre croc named Elvis at a reptile park north of Sydney after they went into its enclosure about 8am today.The men - who used their...
View ArticleMore devils join mainland Ark project
Another 50 Tasmanian devils were released at the Devil Ark sanctuary in the Barrington Tops, in NSW last week in preparation for the breeding season.Ten of the devils were brought from Tasmania, and...
View ArticleAyers Rock (Uluru) dingoes under the microscope
One of Australia's most infamous deaths - the disappearance of baby Azaria Chamberlain at Ayers Rock (now known as Uluru) - saw an innocent woman sent to jail before the real culprit, a dingo, was put...
View ArticleDog breed teeters on brink of extinction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sealyham_terrier_230809.JPGNormally we only feature news about wild animals on the endangered and extinction lists.But a rare breed of domestic dog, once popular among...
View ArticleCrypto books to look out for in 2012
A peek at one of our bookshelves, courtesy of Tania Poole.The year ahead holds plenty of promise - including a growing list of interesting cryptozoology and naturalist books. We've pulled together a...
View ArticleThe Lake George Yowie
Over the years we've amassed quite a bit of interesting footage - mostly witness interviews but occasionally wildlife footage as well. We've also been given footage to share, and this latest offering...
View ArticleA Blue Mountains Yowie?
In today's post we continue to 'get our Yowie on' with another witness interview from the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, NSW, carried out only this week with thanks to local researcher Neil Frost.Our...
View ArticleSurprise, surprise - Vic big cat hunt falters
The Victorian Government has downgraded its promised investigation into the existence of puma-like big cats in Victoria after senior bureaucrats poo-poohed the idea.Shock! Horror! Not really a surprise...
View ArticleYowie encounters on the NSW South Coast
We've pulled up some more video from the archives about one of our favourite topics - the yowie!Two glowing red eyes, an ominous growl, flying stones, tortured screams...what could it have been?Listen...
View ArticleMystery goat killer - was it a big cat?
A quick visit to a mysterious pile of bones on Sydney's outskirts...a chilling discovery. Is it the killing ground of an Australian Big Cat?
View ArticleThylacine skull no cryptid, just a dog
A discovery of an animal skull in regional Tasmania caused much excitement today in Australia, but it turns out the animal remains are nothing more than a dog - not a Thylacine as first...
View ArticleThylacine hunting 'a waste of money'
People should stop wasting time and money looking for the Tasmanian tiger, according to new Australian research.Dr Diana Fisher and Dr Simon Blomberg from the University of Queensland's school of...
View ArticleA bunyip with bite
Is it something in the air?We're not sure, but The Bunyip Movie is the fourth Aussie cryptid film on the books in the past two years, albeit another horror much along the same lines as Gone Missing...
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