Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they’ll likely recount a close encounter with this carnivorous, fanged cousin of the koala. They might describe how a relative was gravely ...

Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they’ll likely recount a close encounter with this carnivorous, fanged cousin of the Australian koala.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2020 and has been updated. (CNN) - Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they'll likely recount a close encounter with this ...

The Drop Bears There is, however, one clear marker of when the mythical drop bears began to enter Australian pop culture. In 1981, bass player Chris Toms and his New Zealander friend Johnny ...

The rise of the drop bear. If the Drop Bears had been formed just 20 years later, they might not have had to explain their name so often. In the age of the internet, the myth of the drop bear has ...

They might describe how a relative was gravely injured during a drop bear attack, or claim that a friend narrowly escaped death at the hands of the vicious carnivore. And they’ll all be lying ...

But with the drop bear, there’s a twist. No Australian actually believes it exists – it’s just used to scare people, normally of the foreign variety.

By Ben Westcott (CNN) — Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they’ll likely recount a close encounter with this carnivorous, fanged cousin of the koala. They might describe how a ...

By Ben Westcott (CNN) — Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they’ll likely recount a close encounter with this carnivorous, fanged ...