A fan s artwork showing late conservationist Steve Irwin meeting his granddaughter Grace Warrior for the first time is going viral on TikTok.
Steve, known to millions around the world as the Crocodile Hunter, died in 2006 at the age of 44 and never got to see his daughter Bindi become a parent herself.
But a drawing by talented 23-year-old Michaela Hill shows the original Wildlife Warrior, clad in his Australia Zoo uniform, holding newborn Grace in his arms - offering a glimpse of what might have been if Steve hadn t died 15 years ago.
Bindi and her husband Chandler Powell welcomed Grace on March 25, and they have both said Steve s absence has been deeply felt as they settle into family life.
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And earlier this week, she broke down in tears over her heartache that her father would never get to meet her daughter, in a preview for the family s new show Crikey! It s A Baby! on Animal Planet.
In the footage, Bindi - alongside her husband Chandler Powell, brother Robert and mother Terri - took baby Grace to visit Australia Zoo s Crocoseum , where Steve would love to feed the crocodiles and spend time as a family .
Heartache: Bindi (pictured with her husband Chandler Powell) recently broke down in tears over her heartache that her father would never get to meet her baby Grace