Steve spent his formative years helping to run the park, including feeding the animals, and eventually became its owner. “His field was herpetology, one who studies reptiles, and my mom was a wildlife rehabilitator.” When Irwin was still a child, his family moved to Beerwah, near Queensland, Australia, to open the Beerwah Reptile Park in 1970. “My dad was a wildlife expert,” Irwin told Larry King in 2004. Steve Irwin discovered his love of animals, and talent for handling them, at an early age. Here are 13 things you might not have known about The Crocodile Hunter.
Yet Irwin’s legacy has carried on, both through repeated viewings of his hit series and with the help of his family: wife Terri, daughter Bindi Sue, and son Bob. The Crocodile Hunteraired its final episode on September 4, 2007, one year after Irwin was killed when a stingray pierced his chest during the filming of a documentary, Ocean’s Deadliest.
In 1996, Australian wildlife expert Steve Irwin-who is the subject of today's Google Doodle-came from seemingly out of nowhere to become one of the world’s most famous television stars.
