Australia

Did Professor of Anatomy Hermann Klaatch discover a tribe of yowies in 1907?

Mr Johnson, who grew up fishing in the area, said despite having frequent croc encounters he had never seen anything quite like it.

“I’d never seen one that close eat something,” he said.

For the first time ever, scientists have been able to record information about the migration of Australia’s short-finned eels.

Fossil discovery shows some Australian ‘thunder birds’ had painful bone infection before species went extinct

Key points:
What caused the demise of the thunder bird isn’t entirely settled
Analysis of fossils found in South Australia has revealed some of the birds had a bone disease
Scientists found the dating of the fossil site coincided with severe drought
This mihirung paringmal (giant bird), sometimes called a “thunder bird” (Genyoris newtoni), weighed five to six times that of an emu, was 2 metres tall, and had a huge beak.

Forrest Galante On Tasmanian wolves In Papua New Guinea

Extinct Burrowing Bat Discovered, and It Was Giant.

Australian wildlife authorities share incredible photo of camouflaged crocodile as public safety warning

Truffle-eating marsupial on ‘brink of extinction’

MAREEBA father-of-two Marco Tiraboschi is still struggling to come to terms with what happened when he was attacked by a crocodile while fishing along the banks of a Far Northern river.

Yowie encounter