July 14th, 2008 at 16:00 by Shawn Lindseth =

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The Bunyip is an Australian legend that started with the Aborigines, and
was subsequently spread among the white settlers. It=92s been physically
described as looking a thousand different ways - having everything from
horse parts to tentacles.

At one point a skull of the creature was thought to be found, and when
science at the time could not definitively identify it - it looked like
the
legends were all too true.

Here is a definition of the Bunyip as found in the Encyclopedia Mythica: