During the first couple weeks of March, several new species have been revealed as new discoveries. Here is a survey of their published images and links to more details about the findings. The green tree skink (Prasinohaema virens) is one of five described species of green-blooded lizards from New Guinea. Credit: Chris Austin, Louisiana State University. A new species of frog of the genus Hylophorbus from New Guinea. Credit: Chris Austin, Louisiana State University. Source: “New Species Found in Mysteriously Diverse Jungle: Louisiana State University’s Chris Austin describes his work studying the diversity of life on the island of New [...]
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New Mouse-Deer
In the West, we know the above pictured species as a chevrotain or musk-deer. In the East, they are sometimes called mouse-deer. One of Sri Lanka’s least known mammals, the mouse-deer found in the highlands of Sri Lanka has been photographed in the wild. This may well be the only occasion in which it has been photographed to a ‘publishable standard’ under truly wild conditions. For many years it was believed that Sri Lanka had one species of Mouse-deer, which was shared with Southern India. Colin Groves a British Taxonomist in June 2005 published a paper in a special supplement [...]
C2C’s Cryptid Canid
I’m playing catch-up from material published during the days I was out along the wilds of the St. Johns River. One item that has surfaced is a new mystery photograph of a strange-looking but familiar animal. Over at Coast to Coast, a image of an unusual canid (dog, coyote or wolf related mammal) was photographed along the Milwaukee River and then recently posted. The picture has raised several questions about what the animal might be. Is it a coyote with mange? Does the underlying musculature look too bulky for a coyote with this illness? Is it a well-fed coyote? A [...]
Outing the Ozark Howler
Ten years later, the “Ozark Howler” still haunts the world of cryptozoology, and everyone from adventurous artists to Wikipedia writers continue to get it wrong. Here we go again. A new example has popped up in the modern blogsphere. Artist Robyn Fabsits of Kansas City, Missouri, shares her vision of what two “cryptids” supposedly look like in her new blog entry entitled “Cryptozoology.” She describes her two items this way: The blue guy is Momo or the Missouri monster and the orange guy is the “Ozark Howler.” I’ll tell you more about their stories later. The artist does not tell [...]
Cryptozoology on Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World
The late Arthur C. Clarke’s‘s Mysterious World broadcast many segments on cryptids. Here are some examples: Cryptozoology 1 of 3 Cryptozoology 2 of 3 Cryptozoology 3 of 3 Sea Monster 1 of 3 Sea Monsters 2 of 3 Sea Monsters 3 of 3 Bigfoot Yeti 1 of 3 Bigfoot Yeti 2 of 3 Bigfoot Yeti 3 of 3
Arthur C. Clarke Dies
An Associated Press News Alert confirms that science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Rohan De Silva says Clarke died early Wednesday, March 19, 2008 (local time) after suffering from breathing problems. Clarke was born Arthur Charles Clarke on 16 December 1917. He was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Tributes and mainstream obituaries will not be difficult to find about Clarke in the coming hours [...]
Sasquatch Milk
“Food and Milk” Richard Herring tries out Sasquatch milk.
No No Gnome
I earlier posted about the “creepy Argentinan gnome video” making the rounds, along with one of the versions of the footage. As the comments there indicate, multiple uploaded videos demonstrate that several takes of the “incident” were made, the images look like a puppet, and other things point to a hoax. Nevertheless, interest is still running high about the visuals. I was interviewed by reporter Alex Davies of Wireless News Flash service yesterday, for the following story they sent out today to their 800 radio stations and other news outlets: ARGENTINIAN GNOME A RED-HATTED HOAXPORTLAND, Maine (Wireless Flash) — Strange [...]
Seven-Colored Snake
In the world of weird animal news, because exact species details are still lacking, comes word of a “strange seven-colored snake found in Nepal,” from Xinhuan news service of China. Thousands of people have been thronging Chapaghar area of Tanahu district in western Nepal to see a strange seven-colored snake found in a well there, the National News Agency RSS reported on Saturday, [March 15, 2008]….The snake was first seen by a local people. Since then thousands of people have seen the snake. A local Kum Bahadur Thapa said 1,000 people visit the area daily to see the snake. Another [...]
General Guemes Gnome
A little gnome with a pointed cap has been captured on a cellphone digital video camera. With a pointed cap? Where have we all seen gnomes like this before? Two years ago, the 30th anniversary edition of the coffee-table book Gnomes hit the bookstores. It reflects how successful the popular cultural icons of the gnomes pictured on the cover and within that book have become. We are surrounded by gnomes. Gnomes was the product of Rien Poortvliet (1932-1995) and Wil Huygen (1925- ), who supposedly made alleged observations of the local gnome population in Holland. The cryptofictionalization of these beings [...]
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