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🗓️ 27 January 2020
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0:00.0 | Five scary Australian creatures that actually exist. |
0:08.6 | They say Australia is the one place where everything tries to kill you. While funny there might be some truth to this |
0:16.7 | especially when it comes to some of the more mysterious creatures from the continent. The cases on this |
0:22.1 | list feature animals too unusual to believe and yet they |
0:26.1 | did exist. These are five scary Australian creatures that actually exist. Number five, drop bear. |
0:39.0 | Kowalas are known for being adorable creatures. |
0:42.0 | They hang out on trees all day, have cute babies, and eat |
0:46.0 | eucalyptus. Nothing about them speaks ruthless or evil. But according to some people, |
0:51.6 | there are actually vicious versions of the koala known as the drop bear |
0:56.6 | Unlike their herbivore counterparts drop bears are larger brutal and carnivorous |
1:03.0 | According to the stories, they usually hide up in the trees waiting for their prey. |
1:08.0 | Once they see them, they drop in on them unexpectedly, biting the head using their teeth in vicious claws. |
1:14.3 | But is the drop bear real? |
1:16.7 | While there's no proof actual koala's can turn vicious and carnivorous, |
1:22.1 | there might be a real life counterpart to the drop-bear |
1:24.9 | lore. The Thylacolio is an ancient mammal that roamed the land during the last ice age. |
1:32.0 | Dubbed as a marsupial lion, it actually has a skull similar to that |
1:36.3 | of a wombat or koala with large cleaver-shaped shearing teeth so it can easily tear and |
1:42.2 | shred prey. The fact that it's a large marsupial |
1:45.9 | makes it a candidate to become the real-life drop bear. True to lore, another |
1:50.9 | fascinating thing about the thylacolio, is it seems to have been capable of climbing |
1:56.0 | trees and grappling large prey. |
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