News and photographs of new fish species are routinely published in Practical Fishkeeping. Above are photos of the new Mexican catfish discovered in 2005. This week, the magazine is noting three new eel-like catfish species. Belgian scientists have described three new species belonging to the African eel-like clariid genus Channallabes. Publishing their results in the latest issue of the journal Belgian Journal of Zoology, Stijn Devaere, Dominique Adriaens and Walter Verraes of Ghent University describe Channallabes ogooensis and C. teugelsi in one study and C. sanghaensis in another. The eel-like clariids of Africa are also rediagnosed in the first study, [...]
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Lake Kenosia Giant Snake Caught
Lake Kenosia’s Monster Caught. Danbury, Conn., – The strange monster which has frequently been seen in Lake Kenosia has been captured. It is a monster serpent of an unknown species and its immense size was not exaggerated by those who saw it at various times. Warren C. Baker, a charcoal burner who has a pit near the lake, was driving along the shore last evening, when he found the serpent, lying dormant and nearly frozen on the sand. Its immense size frightened him, and he drove to the hotel for aid. The serpent was securely bound with ropes and brought [...]
Kangahippomouse?
No, it’s not a new member of the Flight of the Conchords group, which already include performers with the pseudonyms of the Hiphopopotamus and the Rhymenoceros. No, the Kangahippomouse is the thing above. Mark Frauenfelder has blogged an entry entitled “Mystery creature photographed in Seattle — a kangahippomouse?” over at Boing Boing. A reader at BB recently sent in a photograph (above) of this whatever: “Just outside of Seattle, WA my roommate Ed recently took a photo of this . . . thing.” Mark is looking for help in identifying it. My first thoughts ran to that of the naked [...]
First Zanzibar Coelacanth Caught
Small coelacanth from Tanzania caught in February 2007; it is not the one discussed below. Photo courtesy dinofish. The known range of the coelacanth is expanded with this new discovery, and hope remains high that the “living fossil” fish may exist in some surprising locations around the world. Zanzibar, Tanzania – Fishermen have caught a rare and endangered fish, the coelacanth, off the coast of the Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar, a researcher said on Monday [July 16, 2007]. The find makes Zanzibar the third place in Tanzania where fishermen have caught the coelacanth, a heavy-bodied, many-finned fish with a [...]
Extinct Echidna Rediscovered
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), thought extinct since 1961, appears to not be gone, after all. Researchers have found burrows, tracks, and nose pokes made by the long-beaked echidna, recently in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains. Also, locals had said they have seen the animals as recently as 2005. “The month-long expedition by scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) involved travelling to parts of the mountain range, covered by thick jungle, which had remained unexplored for more than 45 years,” reported the BBC News. This echidna was named after TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The species is only known to [...]
Pygmies Belittled: “Exhibited” At Zoo
History has repeated itself. Hominids have diminished others hominids, once again. Ota Benga and a chimpanzee, Bronx Zoo, 1906. “A hundred years ago, on September 8th, 1906, the Bronx Zoo in New York unveiled a new exhibit that would attract thousands of visitors to come and marvel. Inside a cage, in the monkey house, was a man. His name was Ota Benga. He was 22 years old, a member of the Batwa people, pygmies who lived in what was then, the Belgian Congo,” noted National Public Radio (NPR) last year. Protests occurred, and the Bronx Zoo closed the exhibit. A [...]
A CryptoZoo Birthday
Even a hard-working cryptozoologist needs to take a break for his birthday party, once a decade, right? Aren’t we all kids inside, sometimes? Snapshots from the July 12th celebration at the Portland Sea Dogs game: During the event, an unknown cryptid mascot showed up to pose with the specially made Bigfoot birthday cake and some guy in a red shirt. Actually, this creature is the Yarmouth Clam Festival mascot clam. Strange but very cheerful. In the two above photos, you can see how different camera angles and light bouncing off Bigfoot created the illusion that the brown primate may sometimes [...]
Discovering The Bili Ape
Dr. Shelly Williams holds the Bili Ape cast for media photographs in 2003. Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla. Their location at the centre of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the planet, the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has meant that the mystery apes have been little studied by western scientists. Reaching the region means negotiating the [...]
One Way or the Otter, Radford/Nickell X-Files-Labeled
Don Getty, River Otters, Grand Tetons. Used with full permission of Mr. Getty. The photograph does not, however, appear in Ben’s and Joe’s book from last year. Would it have helped lessened the blow of this review against their flank? One would expect that the respected Journal of Folklore Reseach at Indiana University would come down on the side of Benjamin Radford’s and Joe Nickell’s recent skeptical book, Lake Monster Mysteries: Investigating the World’s Most Elusive Creatures. It turns out it didn’t work out that way, and the journal, instead, found the book had shortcomings. Did Ben and Joe receive [...]
M. K. Transfers Bigfoot Analysis Files to Patterson Widow
M. K. Davis has informed me that he has passed the “rights” to all his files to the film footage taken at Bluff Creek, California, on October 20, 1967, to Mrs. Roger Patterson. He appears to be talking especially about enhancement footage (see below) made from Rick Noll’s enlarged frame by frame photos, which are all over YouTube and in various documentaries produced in the recent past. How are such rights transfered after the permissions have been given? Needless to say, Rick Noll and others have raised questions about permissions being granted by Mrs. Patterson for analyses, which were assumed [...]
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