Many people vacationing in Maine may enjoy the Yarmouth Clam Festival (mascot is pictured above) this coming weekend. Others will be having fun elsewhere in Vacationland. After all, read this forecast for the next few days for coastal Maine: Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around 10 mph. Sunday: Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Sunday Night And Monday: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the upper 70s. Tuesday: Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy in the evening … then becoming partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Wednesday: [...]
How Big is the Cryptozoology Community?
My late friend, colleague, and mentor, Ivan T. Sanderson, shown above with a lemur in his private zoo, was one of the first in America to try to organize those interested in cryptozoology into a formal “society.” What does his legacy look like today? Matt Bille asked me a simple question: “How big is the cryptozoological community?” Specifically, Matt wanted to know if anyone has tried to estimate the size of the cryptozoological community – that is, the number of people in North America particularly, who actively follow cryptozoological news and publications? How many people, Matt wondered, actually spend time [...]
Three Eel-Like Catfish Discovered
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recent New Species in Pictures
Sometimes a “new species” to the media is one only new to the area and/or out-of-place… Squacco Heron. Humboldt Penguin. Infrequently, a new species is a surprising discovery, unique to zoology… Eleutherodactylus Frog. Atelopus Frog.
Mapinguary Madness
On July 9th, from NBC’s Today Show to worldwide news service rewrites of the Sunday New York Times article, this all is keeping this new Mapinguary mania alive. And we all thought the interest in this creature was dead a decade ago. Sadly, the articles being spread from the UPI are often headlined with this one, “Numerous Tribes See Brazillian ‘Bigfoot’,” but then open with comments on the locals “have spoken throughout the years of seeing a giant, fearsome, slothlike creature that roams the rainforest.” The articles are going with the Bigfoot/primate headlines, but talking only about the giant ground [...]
Tatzelwurm Sources and Notes
Tatzelwurm, Source Alp Johann Nepomuk Ritter von Alpenburg: Mythen und Sagen Tirols, Zürich, 1857 And Roy Chapman Andrews: Auf der Fährte des Urmenschen, Leipzig, 1927, pp. 93-94 BN Blätter für Naturkunde und Naturschutz, Wien, 21.Jhg. 1934, pp. 22-23, 40-41 Bre1 Prof.Dr.Otto zur Strassen (Editor): Brehms Tierleben, Vierte Auflage Band 5, Lurche und Kriechtiere – Band 2, Leipzig und Wien, 1913 Bre2 Dr.Theo Jahn (Editor): Brehms Neue Tierenzyklopädie, Band 9, Reptilien, Amphibien, Freiburg-Basel-Wien, 1976 Bre3 Dr. Vincenz Brehm: Der Tazzelwurm, in: Natur und Land, 1949/1950, pp. 174-75 Dal Prof.Dr.K.W.von Dalla Torre: Die Drachensage im Alpengebiet, in: Zeitschrift des Deutschen und Österreichischen [...]
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