Thai villagers have caught a river terrapin turtle that was thought to be extinct in the country, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Thailand announced this week. The female turtle – known for its egg-shaped shell and upturned snout – was found January 3, 2007, in a mangrove canal in Phang Nga province on the country’s Andaman coast. It was the first time the turtle species has been found in Thailand in two decades. The mangrove terrapin (Batagur baska) found is pictured below:
New Jellyfish Discovered
Above is a box jellyfish, but not the new one. A new jellyfish, which is unique because it can survive the dry season, has been discovered off Australia. The bart jellyfish is found only at the Gove Peninsular "in the Top End." (The Top End is the second northernmost point on the continent of Australia, behind the Cape York Peninsula. It covers a rather vaguely-defined area of perhaps 400,000 square kilometres bounded by sea on three sides, the Indian Ocean on the west, the Arafura Sea to the north, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east, and by the [...]
Mystery Tusk: Definitely Mastodon Not Mammoth – Perhaps
This mastodon (Mammut americanum) is the life-sized bronze representation at the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, the home of the “Mastodons.” As you will recall, on the 8th, you first read here about the “Mystery Tusk.” Now comes a “confirmed” answer. Or is it? Therein lies the tale behind the splash on the television screen. The video is running on the local news this morning and WCSH-6 has run a backup item on their website by Peter Weyl. The mystery tusk was discovered by Tim Winchenbach of Cushing. He found it in a scallop net brought up from the Georges [...]
Cryptozoology Wednesday
A new site to check out: Anomaly TV: Cryptozoology Wednesday. What do you think about it? One place to find all the Bigfoot videos you have been looking for? Word on replays of Mothman documentaries? Updates on when A & E, National Geographic, Travel Channel, History Channel and other repeats or new programs are going to air. A place to see you favorite online uploads of Blobsquatches? YouTube selections, too?
Spanish Find Another Gollum
A new rather large insect, a new japygid (Order: Diplura; Family: Japygidae), has been discovered in Spain. The japygids are easily identified by the pincers at the end of the abdomen. They look like earwigs (order: Dermaptera) which also have pincers but japygids are eyeless whereas earwigs have large compound eyes. The following is a translated Spanish article, passed along by Scott Corrales, about this discovery. If we are speaking in terms of an animal of external origin that adapted to an underground medium, evolved until it gave rise to a new species and is also named Gollum, everything would [...]
Catfish Discovery: batmani
Cryptopal David Pescovitz posts today at Boing Boing about the new "Batman fish": The Otocinclus batmani is a newly-discovered species of catfish that’s named after comix hero Batman. Ichthyologist Pablo Lehmann, of the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, named the fish based on a bat symbol-like spot on its tail. The fish, around 4cm long, was discovered in Colombia and Peru. For more, see here.
New Species of Sucker-Footed Bat
Easily obtainable photographs of Myzopoda schliemanni are unavailable. This is the closely related species, Myzopoda aurita. Chicago’s Field Museum announced today that a “new sucker-footed bat [has been] discovered in Madagascar”: CHICAGO — Scientists have discovered a new species of bat that has large flat adhesive organs, or suckers, attached to its thumbs and hind feet. This is a remarkable find because the new bat belongs to a Family of bats endemic to Madagascar–and one that was previously considered to include only one rare species. The new species, Myzopoda schliemanni, occurs only in the dry western forests of Madagascar, while [...]
Shadows of Existence
I posted the cover on July 21, 2006, and gave the book an honorable mention on December 12, 2006. Let me share some more thoughts I have about Matthew Bille’s Shadows of Existence. Starting with the beautiful cover by William Rebsamen, there is a hint that this book contains material you don’t find in most of the run-of-the-mill cryptozoology books. I think that is the strength of Bille’s books. He takes somewhat obscure cryptids, and gives them a platform. His books are historically significant because he does an excellent job in overviewing discoveries. What bothers me about this book is [...]
Not Palm Civet But Flying Squirrel, Scientists Say
Perhaps I got it wrong? “New” Borneo Animal “Discovered” Back on December 5, 2005, I shared the news that apparently a new red-furred animal larger than a domestic cat had reportedly been discovered on Borneo, Indonesia. On December 5, 2005, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) announced that they had discovered the first new carnivore to be found in the region since the Tonkin otter-civet emerged in Vietnam in 1930. Also, the WWF said it would be the first new mammal to be specifically found on the island of Borneo since the Borneo ferret-badger in 1895. The new carnivore [...]
Bernard Heuvelmans Books
During 2007, two books, one about and one by Bernard Heuvelmans, will be published in French, appearing by late February from the publisher Les Editions de l’Oeil du Sphinx, Paris. The biography by Jean-Jacques Barloy is entitled Bernard Heuvelmans: Un Rebelle de la Science (Bernard Heuvelmans: A Science Rebel). Barloy is also involved as the annotator of Heuvelmans’ forthcoming books. Jean-Luc Rivera is the director of the publishing of the Heuvelmans collection of books, Bibliothèque Heuvelmansienne (Heuvelmansian Library). The collection’s first volume – which has never been published before – is Les Félins Encore Inconnus d’Afrique (The Felines Still Unknown [...]
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