EUROA BEAST


Accounts of this bizarre event were published in the Melbourne Argus, on February 28, and again on the 1st of March, 1890. The story begins in Euroa, Australia, where a cadre of credible witnesses testified that their village was terrorized by what they described as a 30-foot long, unidentifiable monstrosity.

This animal, which some investigators have associated with the ancestral amphibian known as "Pederpes finneyae" - a short, squat crocodile-like creature, which scientists believe represents the missing link between fish and land animals - wrecked havoc throughout this small community until the executives at the Melbourne Zoological Gardens, although admittedly skeptical, felt that the accounts deserved further scrutiny.

With this in mind, the Garden officials sent an emissary to Euroa armed only with what they referred to as a "big net". Once this intrepid (and scientifically sanctioned) dragon slayer arrived in this terrified town, he wasted no time and organized a party of forty men with the intent of pursuing and capturing this beast.

The men hunted throughout the day and into the night, but the only thing they had to show for their efforts were the discovery of a set of gigantic tracks, which sadly terminated before the monster could be found. This case has often been mentioned in company with the MASTERTON MONSTER of New Zealand.

Wish you would have posted a link as to what the creature did, but this could be Megalania Prisca, a gigantic monitor lizard that may have attained a length of nearly 30 feet and has been reportedly seen by reliable witnessess in modern times, including herpetologist. Unlike dinos that went extinct over 60 million years ago, megalania was a contemporary of man, and seems to have become less and less common as mankind hunted to extinction all of the large macrofauna of Australia. There is no evidence of prehistoric man hunting this monster lizard, but man was intelligent enough to probably avoid it. They probably fed on the large, easy to catch giant marsupials and birds which man wiped out. Like komodo dragons which are a very similar animal, they probably ate their own young too, which doesn't help perpetuating the species. This is one very possible, large, land dwelling crypto waiting to be discovered in the remotest parts of Australia.

For Megalania, yes. It is on a lot of crypto websites. I am surprised no one has made a "bad" B monster movie about it yet.

Well, pretty close: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139414/