A creature only recently discovered by science, the bunyip is an aquatic ampush predator that lies in wait in shallow or muddy water before latching onto prey with its sharp claws and drowning it in muck. It seems to colonize areas of extremely variable and ephemeral water supply, those unsuitable for crocodiles, and appears to be able to lay in wait for decades if not centuries in search of prey. When rare rains come, ephemeral rivers run and salt lakes fill, the bunyip will reportedly gorge itself enough that it can lie fallow for an equal period. Beyond that, though, the Collegium has been unable to assemble a coherent image or drawing of the beast, and those remains that have been collected have been so dessicated that dissection is impractical.

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