{"id":8502,"date":"2011-12-14T10:54:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2012-11-16T13:29:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T07:29:03","slug":"australian-monsters-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2011\/12\/australian-monsters-unleashed\/","title":{"rendered":"AUSTRALIAN MONSTERS UNLEASHED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/unclassified\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1691\" title=\"unclassified\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/unclassified.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/weirdaustralia.com\/2011\/12\/09\/bunyips-serpents-other-creatures-lurking-beneath-our-waters\/\" target=\"_\">Weird Australia<\/a> has published a fun article detailing all manner of down under cryptids!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Australia has long been known for it&#8217;s genuinely bizarre indigenous fauna. From Kangaroos to Koala bears to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/formerly-extinct\/\" target=\"_\">FORMERLY EXTINCT<\/a> Thylacine or TASMANIAN TIGER, strange critters seem to abound in the land that&#8217;s been dubbed &#8220;Oz.&#8221; Now Weird Australia has published an overview of some of their more famous &#8220;unknown&#8221; animals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bunyip2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-651\" title=\"bunyip\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/bunyip2.jpg?resize=271%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The first on the list is the notorious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/bunyip-australia\/\" target=\"_\">BUNYIP<\/a>. This carnivorous and exceedingly dangerous aquatic mammal is said to spend most of its time beneath the placid waters of Australia\u2019s lakes, riverbeds and watering holes. Next up is a \u201cNessie\u201d type creature that allegedly lurks in the depths of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/07\/hawkesbury-river-monster-rears-its-head\/\" target=\"_\">Hawkesbury River<\/a>, one of the major rivers of the coastal region of New South Wales, Australia. They also cover a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/sea-monsters\/\" target=\"_\">SEA MONSTER<\/a> sighting from the early portion of the 2oth Century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird Australia has published a fun article detailing all manner of down under cryptids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[737,398,1121,79,483],"class_list":{"0":"post-8502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia-monsters","9":"tag-bunyip","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sea-serpent","12":"tag-tasmanian-tiger"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bunyip421.jpg?fit=377%2C255&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10068,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/10068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}