Komodo dragons on display at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. During the last week, a released, escaped, or very out-of-place giant Komodo dragon has terrorized Papua New Guinea’s second largest city and caused a massive search by law enforcement officers and local officials around Lae city on the north-west coast. The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is one of cryptozoology’s “classic animals of discovery,” having only been verified less than a hundred years ago, after a specific search for this new species. Now, it is the source of some excitement far from its known home. “Some people [...]
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New Bird Species in Wales?
Is there a new species of oystercatchers being seen in Wales? Certainly startled birdwatchers have been giving very detailed reports of a brightly-colored new visitor. A new species in the UK? How exciting. The new birds, scores of them, appeared to be a yellow-breasted oystercatcher. The oystercatchers are a group of shore waders of the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. The known Haematopus from Wales is decidedly white-breasted, as shown below: However, it turns out that the yellow-breasts were only dye painted on over a hundred normally-colored oystercatchers for a tracking project off the Gower coast. The [...]
Philly’s Patty Bigfoot
This week Philadelphia-area resident and Cryptomundo reader Joe Hudak was at the Philly Car Show. He was passing a shop window located, he recorded, at 12th and Filbert in Center City, Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Primate Love. Being a good Cryptomundian, with his camera at the ready, Joe took the following picture of the object he saw through the window. Clearly this “thing” looks like “Patty,” even to the creation of a backdrop complete with foliage to make it appear to be in the midst of a peaceful Bluff Creek scene. But why does it look so very familiar? [...]
First Photo of Cyprus Spiny Mouse
This is a small version of the first photograph of Acomys nesiotes (TUR: Kıbrıs dikenlifaresi, ENG: Cyprus spiny mouse), by Mustafa Sozen. For information on obtaining the full-sized image, please refer to the Trek Nature link noted below. The Cyprus Spiny Mouse is endemic to Cyprus. It lives in rocky areas. We captured 4 individual on 22.10.2007 around Lefkoşa (Nicosia) area at an altitude of about 600 meters asl in Turkish Republic of Northern Cypruc. No considerable effort has been made since the 1980s to verify its presence and it may persist in small numbers. For this reason, the IUCN [...]
Mystery Bones
Okay, folks, your cryptozoological mystery bones fieldwork assignment is to identify the following. Examine the two separate specimens brought before you, and record your best guesses as to what they are. They have nothing to do with each other. 1) Mystery skull 2) Mystery “teeth” What do you think they are? You be the investigator.
Mokele-Mbembe: 2008 News
Mokele-mbembe being killed by Pygmies by Bill Rebsamen. Cryptozoologist William Gibbons has news about his forthcoming book On The Track of Mokele-Mbembe: Africa’s Living Dinosaur, to be published in 2008, by Coachwhip: I am continuing to work on the book, which is in three parts. The first part covers the entire historical perspective on alleged living dinosaurs in Africa, including some wonderful never before published eye-witness accounts. The second part of the book brings us up to date with modern expeditions and findings. The third part of the book will focus on a few key cryptids that allegedly inhabit the [...]
Galveston Mothman?
In her blog this week, Ha’ri writes in “Mothman – Sighting in Galveston?” of her wonderings and ponderings. She is interested to discover if any large bird-like somethings were seen before any hurricanes hit the coastal Texas city of Galveston. Ha’ri does some research, and rightfully comes to the conclusion there’s nothing to be easily found about a 1969 hurricane – or Mothman sightings there. In the movie The Mothman Prophecies, news articles about the “Houston Batman” were flashed on the screen as the character “Alexander Leek” (“Keel” backwards) talked of how Mothmen were seen before disasters like “the hurricane” [...]
Ah Meng, 48, Dies
It is with great sadness that I must report the death of the world’s oldest, if not oldest, Sumatran Orangutan. This great primate, named Ah Meng, was 48 years old and lived at the Singapore Zoological Gardens. We have many things to learn from these great apes of Asia, about how close they are to the badly named “Johor Bigfoot” or to the Orang Pendek. But too, they have much to still teach us about living with them and saving them. A younger Ah Meng (in the background) and one of her family (being hugged) pictured with another primate who [...]
Gigantopithecus Captured!
On December 1, 2007, before my “Introduction to Cryptozoology” talk, I toured the American Museum of Natural History’s exhibition on Mythic Creatures. In their moderately-sized exhibition hall, I felt one of the highlights was the corner they set aside for unknown hairy hominoids. The Gigantopithecus model was a wonder. It appeared as above, large and Yeti-like for all the world to ponder. The photographs below might give an insight into a different kind of feeling. Cryptomundo correspondent Trey Howell had just finished reading Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America and found himself at the American Museum of Natural [...]
Cryptozoology Futurology
Yes, I have turned up in this new book, What’s Next: The Experts’ Guide: Predictions from 50 of America’s Most Compelling People by Jane Buckingham. I am one of the fifty “most compelling people” in the country. I’m still trying to explain what that means to my sons. I do like the company I get to keep in the pages of this tome, which has just hit the bookstores. What’s Next takes cryptozoology seriously. It contains my next decade’s predictions about where I see the field going and what animals I feel will be discovered. I won’t spoil this author’s [...]
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