EurkeAlert is reporting two new species, a new mouse and a new parrot, have been discovered on a small island in the Philippines. ———————————————————————— Striking, color illustration of new parrot and mouse. Both these animals are endemic (found only there) to Camiguin Island in the Philippines. ———————————————————————— This island, Camiguin, is the smallest Philippine island, of which there are 7,000, known to support a bird or mammal species that is endemic (lives nowhere else). The scientists’ research, which is embargoed, is described in the April 5 issue of Fieldiana: Zoology, a peer-reviewed, scientific journal about biodiversity research published by The [...]
Yeti Mania Begins
In a kingdom built on make-believe, it is a big deal when the masters of fun and fantasy decide to place a focus of cryptozoology into the midst of their own real-life zoo. This covert positioning was not lost on reporter Buck Wolf. Wolf talked to me a couple of weeks ago because he knows of my extensive Yeti research, and he understood I had assisted the Disney people, behind the scenes. I supplied information, a photograph and background data on the Tom Slick (see below) Yeti cast for their exhibition, and pointed them to others who owned the rights [...]
Monstrous and Marvelous
From April 3rd through April 8th, an exhibition of some interest to cryptozoology will be showing at Worth Ryder Gallery in Kroeber Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, California. Various art students at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California College of the Arts have collaborated in the one-week exhibition entitled "American Mythology: The Monstrous and Marvelous," containing Bigfoot and some imagined monsters of the United States. Information on the exhibition quotes those who designed it as saying: "I would like it to seem sort of alien and yet familiar," said Josephine Zarkovich, the UC Berkeley art student who [...]
The Evolution of Cryptozoology Drawings
How do eyewitness drawings evolve into what we often see in the media? Take a look at the development of the sketches and illustrations of Momo (the Missouri Monster, a 1972 Bigfoot-like cryptid) from the time of the initial eyewitnesses’ attempts to capture what they saw, through the artwork created by later illustrators, some with their own agendas. I have discussed this issue in talks at the Texas Bigfoot Research Group’s 2005 conference and at the Bates College’s cryptozoology symposium, last October. In essence, the pure experience of the eyewitness – one that is often diffuse and elementary, filled with [...]
Wanted: Witness Drawings for CryptoExhibit
It is preparation crunchtime here for the forthcoming “Cryptozoology: Out of Time Space Scale” exhibition, at Bates College’s Museum of Art, showing from June 24 to October 7, 2006. The exhibition travels to the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, from late October to December 2006. For insights into how this exhibition’s symposium somewhat symbolized the “kick off” to the last six month’s incredible interest in cryptozoology and cryptids, see David Pescovitz’s Boing Boing posting on October 3, 2005, and Wired News reporter Mark Baard’s oft-quoted “America Goes Cryptozoology Crazy” of November 1, 2005. At Bates, I [...]
April Fool’s Quiz
Who created one of the first April Fool’s “pranks” in the field of Bigfoot/Sasquatch events, in 1955? Watch for the answer here tomorrow, if no one gets it tonight or overnight (in the comments below). UPDATE The answer to this quiz is in the middle of the posting that is found here; look for mention of a Sasquatch fake story for April 1, 1955.
FBI: Cryptozoology Is Number One Domestic Terrorism Threat
All Press Releases for March 31, 2006 Animal-Rights Movement is the Number One Domestic Terrorism Threat According to FBI Reliable sources within the animal rights (AR) community report that some extremist elements within their organizations are involved in a conspiracy to report false sightings of large cats such as lions, tigers, and leopards. (PRWEB) March 31, 2006 — In May 2005, John Lewis, FBI deputy assistant director and top official in charge of domestic terrorism, stated, "The number one domestic terrorism threat is the eco-terrorism, animal-rights movement. These groups have a history of disregarding personal and civil rights of citizens [...]
Nessie and Hunt the Gowk
The story of Nessie revolves around key events that happen in April. A pattern emerges that tells us the monsters in Loch Ness may be especially visible as the northern spring weather has more people motoring and cycling around lochside. Or is it about increasingly active cryptids in the water? The first good sighting occurred on April 14, 1933, when Mr. and Mrs. MacKay, traveling from Inverness to Drumnadrochit, saw two large humps in the middle of the loch, swimming parallel with Aldourie Pier (on the opposite side from where they were). The single best piece of moving photographic evidence [...]
MA HB Ends
It is Friday, March 31 (a day I predicted on Wednesday we would hear about earthquakes). This day will see the hardcover and paperback editions of Mysterious America from Paraview go out of print. No more hardback copies of Mysterious America again. Famed natural history artist Alexis Rockman painted the cover depicting a real encounter he and his associates had with a giant catfish. Your last day to buy either paperbound or hardbound copies of Mysterious America online is today.
New Little Skulls
A new species of monkey discovered in South America, larger than contemporary monkeys? A new hominid species found, perhaps as a link between erectus and sapiens? Two recent new fossil skull finds may have much to tell cryptozoology, as they become more deeply understood. A team of Argentinean and United States scholars have identified a new species of monkey that once roamed the rainforests of Patagonia, South America. The discovery of the monkey species, Killikaike blakei, was announced by Brooklyn College Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Alfred L. Rosenberger. The discovery, dated to 16.4 million years ago, was of [...]
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