Today, July 29, 2008, Russian scientists will attempt to reach the bottom of the world’s deepest freshwater abyss in a bid to find unknown life forms as well as claim a new record. In the realm of cryptozoology, the so-called “Lake Baikal Monster” is described by some as being a sturgeon-like cryptid, while others have likened it to a giant pinniped or large marine mammal. “We want to study, observe Lake Baikal” in order to “preserve it,” said expedition leader Artur Chilingarov, a pro-Kremlin member of parliament who led a team of scientists that planted a Russian flag at the [...]
Kids Donate $50 To Save The Museum
Qahatika child, 1907 ~ photographer Edward Curtis. Today’s mail brought a letter from educator Paula Vaughan’s summer exploration classroom of gifted homeschoolers. They were studying a unit entitled “Mythical Beasts and Wondrous Cryptids,” probing the “mysteries with critical, yet intuitive open-heartedness that is so unique and precious for children and people everywhere,” writes Ms. Vaughan. Paula Vaughan is the founder of OneWomansMind.net, embracing the extraordinary through story. Vaughan continues: Your word has been instrumental to our explorations and understandings of cryptids worldwide. For me personally, your webside, Cryptomundo.com, books and interviews have proven to be vital links to evidence and [...]
Monsters of Legend: Bigfoot
The History Channel, in conjunction with “MonsterQuest” via MSN, have been issuing videotaped interviews with myself and others. These vignettes are presented from the “files of The History Channel with cryptozoologist, author and lecturer Loren Coleman, anthropologist David Gilmore, biologist Richard Ellis and folklorist Adrienne Mayor” offering commentary on the legends of Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, mermaids and dragons. Video vignettes with short commercial introductions are online at MSN. Here is their “Bigfoot” video. Monsters of Legend: Bigfoot I was taped in the midst of my museum. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Support the museum today, and realize you may directly send a [...]
Saigas, Mammoths, and Pleistocene Parks
Travel with me today, from the concept of prehistoric trunked animals to the future establishment of Pleistocene Parks in Siberia and America. Regarding artist William Munns’ reconstruction theories about trunked dinosaurs, he observes, “In the matter of comparative anatomy with existent species, no existent skulls are identical, but two types do have nares at the top of the skull. One group are the cetaceans (porpoise and whales). The other are the Proboscidians (elephants).” As Munns points out, interestingly, “in mammals, the presumption of a trunk is freely given to any skull with high nares.” The macraucheniid litoptern is assumed to [...]
Cadborosaurus willsi Revisited
Due to the new sighting of Ogopogo, it was only a matter of time before someone would begin wondering what happened to Caddy, Cadborosaurus willsi, the Sea Serpent of Cadboro Bay, off British Columbia. Victoria’s Times Colonist ran an update today. According to Paul Leblond, a retired University of British Columbia oceanography professor and author a 1995 book on the Cadborosaurus, Caddy was last spotted several years ago off the shores of Galiano Island. “The search is still ongoing,” Leblond (pictured below) told a reporter. Leblond said Jason Walton, vice-president of the B.C. Scientific Cryptozoology Club, keeps a video camera [...]
Steller’s Sea Ape
Steller’s Sea Ape, as drawn by Harry Trumbore, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates (2006: 64-65). A good overview of the expedition leading to the remarkable sighting of what has become known as Steller’s Sea Ape can be found in the November 17, 2005, article in the California Literary Review. The essay is by Peter Bridges, former U.S. ambassador to Somalia, and is about the animal discoveries made by naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller. Bridges writes that: In January 1738, Steller set out from St. Petersburg on a five-thousand mile journey across European Russia and Siberia to [...]
Pondering the Aardvark
Why is the aardvark of some importance to cryptozoology, you might be wondering? In my revised slide show on the history of cryptozoology, I have one on the life of the “Father of Cryptozoology,” noting Bernard Heuvelmans, with the line: “Doctorate, aardvark’s teeth.” Bernard Heuvelmans’ 1939 thesis was dedicated to the classification of the hitherto unclassifiable teeth of the aardvark (Orycteropus afer), the African “anteater.” Of course, today we know the aardvark is not closely related to the South and Central American anteaters, at all, but it wasn’t always so. Aardvark is Afrikaans/Dutch for “earth pig.” Heuvelmans’ work helped to [...]
Stratton Thrush: A New Hybrid Bird?
Bicknell’s thrush, Catharus bicknelli. Drawing by Liza. Veery, Catharus fuscescens. Drawing by Whatbird. The Vermont Center Of Ecostudies (VCE) files a new report, which could have implications for other studies of hybrids in high-elevation bird populations: The recent discovery atop Stratton Mountain (Vermont) of an apparent hybrid of a Bicknell’s thrush and veery, two closely related species in the genus Catharus, has generated some buzz in birding circles. The bird was discovered by field biologists with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies (VCE) in the course of their long-term research on high-elevation bird populations. The first clue to this individual’s possible [...]
“Lions In Iowa” Exhibit Opens
WHAT: “Lions in Iowa” traveling exhibit grand opening and celebration. WHEN: 2 p.m. Saturday, July 26. WHERE: Swiss Valley Nature Center, 13606 Swiss Valley Road, Dubuque, Iowa. COST: The event is free and open to the public. Ron Andrews, Iowa’s foremost expert on mountain lions, will help celebrate the grand opening of the “Lions in Iowa” traveling exhibit on Saturday, July 26, at the Swiss Valley Nature Center. The exhibit, on display through Sept. 15, addresses myths about mountain lions, also known as cougars, and provides details about their natural history through interactive, hands-on experiences. Andrews, a furbearer biologist with [...]
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