Oceania

The largest shark that ever lived went extinct 3.6 million years ago, unless the deep ocean is hiding something.

Officially extinct since 1936, the Tasmanian tiger is the subject of more credible survival sightings than almost any other lost species.

Australia's lurking water spirit, feared by indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

Australia's own Bigfoot has been reported for centuries, from Aboriginal Dreamtime stories to modern highway encounters.

A ghostly white humanoid shape rising from Antarctic waters, seen by Japanese fishermen.

A 12-foot flightless bird, officially extinct for 600 years, with enough backcountry sighting reports to keep the search alive.

Islanders in Papua New Guinea describe a glowing, long-tailed flying creature that matches no known bird or bat.

Sacred water guardians of Maori tradition that shape rivers, protect tribes, and sometimes drag the unwary to their doom.

A bipedal reptilian predator stomping through the Australian outback, leaving three-toed tracks in places nothing large should be.

Massive, fleshy, unidentifiable masses that wash ashore worldwide, defying easy explanation until the lab results come in.

A plesiosaur-shaped creature in the murky tidal waters north of Sydney, reported by fishermen for over a century.

A striped, cat-sized predator prowling the Australian bush, matching nothing in the known fossil record since the Pleistocene.

A colossal water creature in Australia's Murray River that punishes anyone who disturbs its territory with a wasting sickness.

A tiny red tree creature that swallows you whole, then spits you out slightly shorter.

A small, otter-like animal in New Zealand's South Island rivers, where no native mammal should exist.

A giant serpent of the Australian interior, thick as a tree trunk, still reported near remote waterholes.

A hairy, rock-throwing giant reported in New Zealand's Coromandel Range long before the Bigfoot craze.

A marine humanoid reported by fishermen in New Ireland, with a woman's upper body and a fish-like lower half.

An enormous, tapir-like beast reported by a colonial officer in the unexplored highlands of Papua New Guinea.

In the Australian outback, a malevolent spirit stalks those who practice sorcery and kills them in their sleep.