- Was on camera when he was killed. The only copy of the video was given to his widow Terri Irwin. She claims to have destroyed the footage without ever viewing this.
- He told his camera crew to always be filming and that if he needed help, he would ask for help. Steve and Terri spent their honeymoon trapping crocodiles together.
- Over 360 million people tuned in to watch the Steve Irwin Memorial Service on Animal Planet on September 19, 2006.
- He was awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian government for his service to global conservation and to Australian tourism (2001).
- Stopped personally greeting zoo visitors when he witnessed a little girl getting knocked down and seriously injured by a fan rushing to meet him.
- Steve and Terri's daughter, Bindi Sue Irwin, is actually named for Steve's favorite crocodile, Bindi and his dog, Sui, who has, incidentally, appeared in numerous The Crocodile Hunter (1996) episodes with Steve and Terri.
- Had a species of turtle named after him - Elseya Irwini.
- Has had a road named in his honor: Steve Irwin Way in Beerwah, Queensland on Australia's Sunshine Coast.
- He was scared to death of parrots, especially the sulfar crested cockatoo. When he was four years old, he almost had his nose bitten off by his father's pet sulfar crest. The only bird he felt comfortable around was a black cockatoo, named Ularoo.
- Almost faced charges of child endangerment in early January 2004 for doing a crocodile demonstration while holding his one-month-old son, Bob, in one arm and feeding a 13-foot crocodile with the other. Steve and Terri claimed that their son was not in danger and that both their children were going to be "croc savvy".
- He was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6320 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 26, 2018, the first conservationist to be so honored.
- Owned a red and white motorbike which he rode around Australia Zoo. This was one of the main ways to determine whether he was at the Zoo or not.
- Posthumously inducted into the Queensland Leadership Hall of Fame, recognized for international relationship both in business and wildlife conservation, significantly contributing to Queensland and its international reputation (2015).
- Second child, Robert Clarence "Bob" Irwin born on Monday, December 1, 2003 at 8:00 AM. He weighed 7 pounds and 4 ounces, at birth.
- His dog, Sui, is a Staffordshire Bullterrier cross
- Second child, Robert Clarence Irwin, is named after Steve's father, Robert, and Terri's father, Clarence.
- The documentary movie Ocean's Deadliest (2007), and the animated movie Happy Feet (2006), were dedicated to his memory.
- Although it was widely reported that he had pulled out the stingray's barb after being stung. (additionally with reporters adding "He pulled out the 'plug', but it was like being stabbed with a dirty dagger"). His eyewitness/cameraman confirmed that those reports were actually wrong and that Irwin also could not be saved due to the stingray's deadly venom.
- Daughter, Bindi Irwin, was born on Friday, July 24, 1998, at 9:46 PM. She weighed 6 pounds and 3 ounces, at birth.
- Despite reports/belief, the stingray barb wound was not actually in his heart, according to the coroners, it was in the right side of his chest/abdomen. The coroners also stated that it was basically the stingray's venom that killed him, not as much the wound.
- On February 22, 2019, he was honored with a Google Doodle.
- His first grandchild, Grace Warrior Irwin Powell was born on March 25, 2021 via daughter Bindi Irwin and her husband Chandler Powell.
- Upon his tragic death, several close friends commented that he would be more vulnerable (to get fatally attacked by wildlife) in water than on land. Stating that "On land, he was agile, quick-thinking and quick-moving, but the ocean puts another element there that you have no control over".
- Like Timothy Treadwell who was killed in a Grizzly bear attack with his significant other Amie Huguenard in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve three years earlier, Irwin was in his forties at the time of his tragic death.
- Father-in-law of Chandler Powell.
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