Almost mystical in nature, white animals garner human attention, as this new story demonstrates. There is nothing truly cryptozoological about albino or nearly albino animals, any more than there is about melanistic ones. Neither are hidden, certainly, as their very appearance and finding them makes the news. Actually, their appeal has everything to do with them being very beautiful and visible. In the world of weird animal news, white animals tend to get more than the usual attention from humans, and thus the media. Ghostly, phantomlike, mythical, and legendary are words often associated with albinos and near-albinos (leucistic) specimens of [...]
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Never Mind: Komodo Dragon Hunt Called Off
Hoax? Failed hunt? Mistaken identity? An update from PNG appears to have a different point of view that the last report published. Papua New Guinean authorities have called off a four-day “Komodo hunt”, believing reports of an escaped Komodo Dragon could be a hoax. The lizard was reported on the loose in PNG’s second largest city, Lae, on PNG’s west coast, and was said to be terrorising locals after it escaped captivity last week. But after extensive investigations authorities believe it could be a similar looking Salvadori Monitor, common to the Papuan region and not the endangered Indonesian reptile. Police, [...]
Bigfoot Biker Flick
Old movie posters of Bigfoot movies are rare but do exist. But how often do you see one in this language? I’ve mentioned this film before. In the USA, it was released as Bigfoot (1970), directed by Robert E. Slatzer. Nevertheless, this poster is new to me.
Breaking: Romanian Bigfoot Photos
Fake? Photoshopped? Real man in a suit? Pozele sunt facute in Romania, in Muntii Vrancei, acum 4 zile, pe 8 februarie, sau cel putin asa spune autorul. Photos taken friday, February 8th 2008, in Romania, Vrancea Mountains. A tall strange humanoid crossing the road, that’s what I saw.vasiliumihnea Click image for full size version Click image for full size version Click image for full size version
Red-Faced Laughing Cryptid Monkeys
Are the reports of a strange new monkey related to Macaca fascicularis, pictured above? Or are they more clearly aligned with Japanese macaques? Are they a new species, as yet undiscovered? Or have exotic pet traders released some rare snow monkeys from Japan in the Philippines? A group of red-faced monkeys that can mimic human laughter has been sighted in the mountain ranges of Sal-dab, a sacred mountain in Northern Mindanao, The STAR learned recently. The monkey that mimics human voice is known to natives as Uma-ay and is believed to bring a curse on whoever sees it. According to [...]
Mini-Fossils: Flying Reptile & Island Dino
Perhaps they all owned iPods Nanos? Small cute fossil finds pointing to pygmy versions of extinct forms appear to be in the news lately. Being tiny goes back a long way. A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan of less than a foot across (30cm) has been discovered in China. The nearly complete skeleton was unearthed in fossil beds from northeastern China. One of the smallest pterosaurs ever discovered, the new species has been named Nemicolopterus crypticus, which means “hidden flying forest dweller.” Read more here. Meanwhile, the discovery of a small dinosaur off the coast of [...]
Why Mokele-Mbembe Is Not A Rhino
The Emela-ntouka has been an unknown animal of some confusion in Africa. A few chroniclers have felt it was merely another named cryptid representing the sightings of the Mokele-mbembe. But as revealed by an image seen here exclusively at Cryptomundo in the past, it appears to be a beast unlike the saurapod-like Mokele-mbembe. Click on image for larger size Copyright: Michel Ballot – Mokélé – Mbembé CAMEROUN 2004 On page 219 of one of my field guides, coauthored with Patrick Huyghe, we noted, among several different kinds of alleged “dinosaurs” in Africa, “one animal is called by locals the emela [...]
Robert Rines: “Are They All Liars?”
It reads like an obituary. And after a fashion, it is a pre-obit, a reflection on how it must feel as the end is in sight. The Boston Globe looks at the final and waning days of the Loch Ness Monster hunter Robert Rines. The article carried in today’s New England newspaper is detailed, joyous, and, I must admit, a little sad to read. In 1999, along with my sons (one of whom has a very Scottish name and it’s his birthday today), I came upon Rines and one of his sons in a teahouse on the shores of the [...]
Black Squirrel Research Funded
There is news of a considered and thoughtful educational effort to do “black squirrel” research. Due to a growing population on Long Island, New York, a new “Black Squirrel Headquarters” has sprung up in the Lake Grove neighborhood. Noting the black squirrels have also “colonized suburban Washington D.C.; Reedsburg, Wis., and Princeton, N.J.,” Bill Roe’s organization gave out a research award. They just announced a “$3,000 grant to Michele Miller and April Mindlin, fifth-grade teachers at the Eugene Auer Memorial Elementary School in Lake Grove, whose students are combining scientific methods and high-tech gadgets to study the area’s black squirrel [...]
“You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat”
Roy Scheider, 75, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie Jaws, died on February 10, 2008. The movie brought to the fore the notion that cryptid Megalodons (Carcharodon megalodon) might still be waiting out there in the oceans of the world, ready to be found anew. Megalodon, the 70 foot, 40 ton prehistoric cousin of the great white shark, were seen as even more scary after Jaws set up all large sharks as tooth-laden swimming demons. (Opinions about sharks have shifted back to conservation, but 1975 is the watershed year in increasing [...]
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