Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman

Cryptomundo Praise

Flashback: Exactly a year ago, we began to get more and more national notice and praise. In the next few days, I’ll announce an honor we have recently been given, but for now…I want to revisit last year’s appreciation, because it was the kind of linking that evolved into where we are today. Thanks to everyone for stopping by here, to make Cryptomundo part of your daily routine. Cryptomundo was informed this week (January 24, 2006) that we have been chosen as a Yahoo Pick! We are so proud, here’s the entire posting from Yahoo: Cryptomundo Florida Skunk Apes, West [...]

Where’s Wallie?

“Residents report wallaby on the loose in eastern Pa. town”, according to the Centre Daily Times, published in Centre County, Pennsylvania. In Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, the locals are asking “Where’s the wallaby?” That’s what officials at the Berks County Humane Society are wondering after residents began seeing a foreign creature hopping around town. The accounts came in on Monday, January 22, 2007. The agency received its first report of a wallaby sighting on Monday from a man who had seen the animal in his backyard over the weekend. No one has come forward missing a pet and 20 miles away, at [...]

Sasquatch Relaxed

As mentioned, January 23 is the release date for Sasquatch Mountain, so there’s an ongoing contest for a signed script: click here. Click on image for full size version In celebration of the release, Cryptomundo has been given this exclusive photograph of the starring Sasquatch = “Behind the Scenes.”

Cryptomundo 2.0 Is Up

The new site is up. Anyone have any general feedback as well as any suggested specific enhancements that you would like to see in the near future? I don’t know if it is just my computer, but I cannot see the individual headers for my blog “CryptoZoo News” or Craig’s “Bigfoot Report” any longer. How does it look to you folks?

Coelacanth Quickies: Hofmeyr and Mount Karthala

Coelacanth tidbits have been surfacing and leaping up into my awareness over the last few days. I’ve fished them out of my short term catches and netted them anew here for you. 1) A highly debated bit of hominid fossil news these days is focussing on the Hofmeyr skull. The skull, found 55 years ago in a river bed near Hofmeyr in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, has resurfaced because of a new analysis of the contents of the inside of the skull. This new study has shown that the Hofmeyr skull is a lot older than people thought. [...]

What Is A New Species?

This is the latest new mammal discovered in Europe, Mus cypriacus or the Cypriot mouse, which was described last year in the journal Zootaxa. How does one determine that a new species has been discovered? How is it that one location has one species of salamander and thirty years later there are said to be many new species in that area? From where do all the new species come? The Naung Mung Scimitar-Babbler (Jabouilleia naungmungensis) was discovered in the pre-montane rainforests of northern Myanmar (Burma) in 2005. Their discovery, however, was not announced until 2006. It is a unique new [...]

Nature Will Find A Way

"The effort to eradicate pythons in the Everglades resulted in 170 being removed last year, up from 95 in 2005, national park spokeswoman Linda Friar said." – Naples Daily News Naples reporter Jeremy Cox, on Saturday, January 20, 2007, details (in part below) the real story about giant snakes being found in Florida: Deborah Jansen plopped the white plastic trash bag onto the grass and reached inside to reveal its contents: a Burmese python, flattened the night before along U.S. 41 East. Blood dripped from the snake’s mouth as Jansen, a wildlife biologist, uncoiled the snake to its full length [...]