An Australian hominid that stands up to 3.6m tall ... A reconstruction of the bunyip. The dropbear isn’t exactly a mythical creature, as much as it’s a giant hoax to fool naïve tourists, but they’re a ...

Australia has some thoroughly ... We also have some thoroughly cooked “mythical” (read: absolutely real) creatures. Like the bunyip. The bunyip has its origins in Indigenous Dreamtime stories ...

The Bunyip, a legendary Australian water monster ... Fossils found near water could have sparked tales of a lurking creature that preyed on the unwary. Amazonian folklore describes the Mapinguari ...

Imported mythical creatures including mermaids and giants were used to fill an “absence” in white settler storytelling through the creation of origin stories for Australian geographic and ...