Stimson’s Python or Children’s Python (Antaresia chlidreni) spotted whilst head torching tonight in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. | Mick Fullerton Wildlife

In August 1864, three children wandered into the harsh Australian Mallee scrub. Nine-year-old Isaac Cooper, his seven-year-old sister Jane, and four-year-old Frank Duff were lost when a thunderstorm washed away all traces of their passage. Officials soon abandoned the search, presuming they had perished. Local residents enlisted three Indigenous trackers from the Wotjobaluk people, Dick-a-Dick, Jerry, and Fred. The trackers soon picked up the trail and found the children on the ninth day, huddle