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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
CryptoGadget News: Nessie Expedition Planned
The man behind May 2007′s video is returning to Loch Ness. Gordon Holmes is going to experiment with new technology to try to capture Nessie, at least with a camera. Holmes has emailed me with the breaking news he is going back to Loch Ness this year with “NET –> NESSIE 2008.” He writes it will be the… …’smallest’ ever attempt to obtain proof of any large unknown Creature swimming in Loch Ness. Basically, it is a radio-controlled boat with sonar and a wireless-linked CCTV camera monitoring the sonar screen. The idea is, I stand on the shore obtaining video [...]
New Uakari Photo
If you’ve been reading of the finding of a new primate in the last few days, you aren’t going crazy if you thought it sounded awfully familiar. On January 16, 2008, you learned here of the discovery of a new monkey in the Amazon, with the Latin name Cacajao ayresii. This week various media releases, stimulated by the National Geographic News, have caused a new round of articles. But when I wrote about this new uakari monkey from the Amazon rainforest, there were no photographs available last month. Now I have located photographs of the discoverer (top and below) and [...]
Cryptid Witnesses’ Catch 22
Click on the cartoon to see the other panels. There are some old tried and supposedly true axioms. One is that if you acknowledge you are crazy, you probably aren’t. Another is that by the time that you realize you are in the Illuminati, it’s too late. But how about the one about cryptid sightings? In a blog called “Why hasn’t anyone seen Bigfoot?”, the blogger Thudfactor writes: Not that there aren’t any witnesses. It’s just none of them are credible. In his Darklore essay, Loren Coleman makes the point that part of the reason these witnesses aren’t credible is [...]
Bigfoot Boogie
Which of these three do you think is the most popular online video in America today? A. B. C.
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