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Have you ever seen a Labradoodle? I met my first one in October last year and I don’t think I’ve seen a more skittish dog. When the owner told me it was a Labradoodle, I assumed she said Labra poodle. The shaggy black thing had that nervous haunted look around the eye that you [...]

Some urban legends, like some jokes,don’t survive long, nor do they deserve to. A story will survive, while not literally true but encompassing a higher truth, because it’s a bloody good yarn.
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Mihirung paringmal is an Aboriginal word from the Tjapwuring people of Western Victoria and it means ‘giant bird’.
Giant Demon Duck of Doom
Commonly known as Stirton’s Thunder Bird, this huge flightless bird lived in subtropical open woodlands in the late Miocene. (8 - 6 million years ago). This was the largest of a [...]