What’s in store for human group discussions involving the big hairy bipeds during 2008? Here are some announced gatherings: 20th Annual Bigfoot Conference / EXPO Don Keating’s 20th Annual Bigfoot Conference / EXPO will occur on Saturday, May 17, 2008, from 4 p.m. to about 10 p.m. The location is the Salt Fork State Park Lodge, just off of US Route 22, in Guernsey County, Ohio. The speakers are Igor Bourtsev, Jeff Meldrum, Eric Altman and MK Davis. East Coast Bigfoot Conference for 2008 Eric Altman’s Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society will hold its conference on September 27, 2008 from noon to [...]
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CFZ: London Lecture on CZ
Forthcoming Event: Date: 20/05/08 (or in America, May 20, 2008) Location: Darwin Building, University College London, Malet Place Postcode: WC1E 6BT Educate yourself with a Beginner’s Guide To Cryptozooology from the Grant Museum of Zoology The Grant Museum of Zoology is hosting a free talk that aims to introduce Beginners to Cryptozooology. How do you search for an animal that has never been seen? Are there mysterious beasts roaming our moors? How can you tell superstition from reality? Jonathan Downes and Richard Freeman, Director and Zoological Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology will discuss what cryptozoology is and how [...]
Do Right Wingers Hate Bigfoot?
Let’s try to follow the logic on this one. If you happen to produce a documentary about Jesus Christ that holds a thesis that right wingers don’t like, you can be almost labeled a near-nutcase because you have also produced the documentary “Bigfootville,” according to two conservative bloggers. Your ability to be a critical thinker is called into question if you produce documentaries on Bigfoot and Roswell, but if you raise questions about the story of Jesus Christ (demonstrating your critical thinking?) you are merely called “bogus” because of faults in your “background”? I am not here to defend or [...]
Mande Burung Breast Feeds Captive
Please click on the above cartoon for a larger image. Remember June 2007 when artist Peter Loh, making contact from Singapore, sent in the above illustration to go with the breaking news (here, here, here) coming hot out of the rainforests of South Asia of a strange new creature, the Mande Burung (= Wild Jungle People)? The hominoid is back in the news. “Meghalaya” literally means “The Abode of Clouds” and is the name of a small state in northeast India. Chad Arment makes reference to a news item about the Achik Tourism Society (ATS) studying the Mande Burung of [...]
Exclusive: New Parasitic Plant’s Scientific Name
On May 2nd, I ran the story here about George Yatskievych, the scientist with the Missouri Botanical Garden who has rediscovered and identified a rare parasitic plant (above). A single specimen of the plant was found in Mexico in 1985. The plant wasn’t seen again until St. Louis botanist George Yatskievych and a colleague found it in a pine oak forest in Mexico’s mountains. George Yatskievych studying the parasite in Mexico. Photo by J. L. Contreras J./ courtesy Missouri Botanical Garden. However, a riddle for me was why I could not find the new scientific (Latin) name attached to any [...]
Tim Cameron’s Seven Weird Mythical Creatures: Commentary
Comedian Tim Cameron at Cracked.com has set out to name the most outrageous “creatures,” which I guess we might assume could include a cryptid or two. His new list is entitled the “Weirdest Mythical Creatures in the World,” and I thought I’d share the essence of his gathering. Despite the profanity-injected narrative, which I found sometimes not-too-funny and distracting, the compilation was worthy of a look, as Cameron pointed to some overlooked alleged beasts. The creative list with a few of Cameron’s quoted but edited comments, without his “how to kill” them conclusions, is below. I truly did find the [...]
Neandertals Were Separate Species
A new, simplified family tree of humanity, published on Sunday, has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neandertals intermingled with our forebears. Neanderthals were a separate species to Homo sapiens, as anatomically modern humans are known, rather than offshoots of the same species, the new organigram published by the journal Nature declares. The method, invented by evolutionary analysts in Argentina, marks a break with the conventional technique by which anthropologists chart the twists and turns of the human odyssey. That technique typically divides the the genus Homo into various classifications according to the [...]
Thylacoleo carnifex: Super-Predator
Thylacoleo carnifex A sabre-toothed cat that sported the fearsome teeth of felines also had the body and gait of a bear, making it a “super-predator”. So says a team led by Stephen Wroe at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, which found that the ferocious marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) shared the same super-predator body plan as Smilodon fatalis, North America’s ice age sabre-tooth cat. Wroe and his team compared the skulls, teeth and body proportions of seven extinct mammalian predators with those of 22 living species, in a bid to better understand how the extinct animals behaved. They [...]
Cryptids at Maine Student Book Award Celebration
The Maine Student Book Award Celebration (MSBAC) takes on a decidedly cryptozoological flavor this year. As you read this, I’m in northern Maine, in a secret location filled with librarians and children, getting ready or presently talking about cryptozoology, cryptids, and leading workshops with the kids on casting footprints during a full-day gathering. Actually, other than kidding about the “secret location,” all the rest is true. The MSBAC is occurring on Monday, May 5, 2008, in Penobscot, and I’m there right now, as this is being remotely posted. I’m on site with their out-of-state guest of honor, Kelly Milner Halls, [...]
Pondering Bigfoot Sex in Kansas City
Okay, yes, it does take a lot to get people’s attention these days. Sometimes it can be the implied promises found in a blog headline. Other times it may be the surprises via an assumed backdoor. But how about thoughtful and reflective images, as well? It is more difficult to go there, right? Nevertheless, take a quiet moment, turn off the iPod, the iPhone, and the HD television, and look at this brief slide show of some artistic photographs by clicking here. Sit back and enjoy the images. Alice Thorson of The Kansas City Star takes a look at “Animal [...]
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