Photo of Barbourula kalimantanensis. Researchers have confirmed the first case of complete lunglessness in a frog, according to a report in the April 8, 2008, issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. The aquatic frog Barbourula kalimantanensis apparently gets all the oxygen it needs through its skin. The closely related Barbourula busuangensis or Philippine Flat-headed Frog. Previously known from only two specimens, two new populations of the aquatic frog Barbourula kalimantanensis were found by the team during a recent expedition to Indonesian Borneo. “We knew that we would have to be very lucky just to find the frog,” [...]
“Die, Researchers, Die!”
Perhaps it is a coincidence but on March 22, 2008, a renegade alignment of “thinkers” calling themselves the RRRgroup (although known by some critics as the “KKKgroup”) wrote a blog (together?) entitled “Death(s) will clean the UFO palate.” They begin by stating, “When ufology’s old-guard passes on – Dick Hall, Stan Friedman, Kevin Randall, John Schuessler, and even the 60ish Jerry Clark to name a few – taking hangers-on and sycophants with them (and you know who they are), the UFO palate will be cleansed.” The RRRGroup then mention others who “include Paul Kimball, Nick Redfern, Greg Bishop, and Mac [...]
Charlton Heston Has Died
“Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape.” – Taylor (Charlton Heston) in Planet of the Apes (1968) Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid, Taylor, and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, has died. He was 84. Heston spokesman Bill Powers says the actor died Saturday night, April 5, 2008, at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia was at his side. Heston revealed in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s disease, saying, “I must reconcile [...]
Breaking: Campeche Chupacabras
Chupacabras reappears in Champotón, Campeche, Mexico; it kills 9 birds. Chupacabras reappeared in the municipality of Champotón, where it left dead eight hens and a turkey and without blood, but also a live rooster, in the house of Aurelio Tamay. The birds were inside the hen house, where the entity or unknown arrived and sucked the blood from them and later escapes without leaving sign. Tamay narrated that the dawn of the past Sunday [March 30, 2008] he listened to a great uproar and something like roars in the patio of his house. He went to investigate and in the [...]
New Mystery Fish
A strange new mystery fish find has turned up from Pioneer Park Pond in Brigham City, Utah. It allegedly has biologists stumped. A fish with fangs was discovered; now officials are trying to figure out what exactly it is. CNN News Video. What do you think? One thing it is not: a squashed otter. The following is a snakehead: Below is an unidentified fish caught in the Amazon River: Following, a wolf fish:
What Does A Female Bigfoot Look Like?
The above drawing of the William Roe encounter’s Sasquatch was used to illustrate Ivan T. Sanderson’s men’s magazine article detailing Roe’s sighting. From the initials of the artist in the right hand corner, they do not appear to match Morton Kunstler’s. The closeup of the Roe drawing done by Kunstler in Sanderson’s 1961 ABSM book seems to have been based on the above sketching (but they are different). The image on the left is usually noted as Roger Patterson’s drawing of the “Old Woman” of the 1924 Albert Ostman encounter. But most drawings in Patterson’s book are reproductions from others’ [...]
New Brazilian Species Discovered
A team of researchers and experts of Brazil’s Tocantins Sierra Environmental Station has catalogued 440 animal species in the Tocantins Sierra Wildlife Reserve (TSWR), among them 14 new species. Their work lasted 30 days. Below are photos of five of the species of interest to the researchers: Corythomantis greeningi Bachia sp. Stenocercus quinarius Proceratophrys sp. Phyllomedusa sp. The two lizards (Bachia and Stenocercus) are said to be “recently described,” as well as the Phyllomedusa frog. The Proceratophrys toad “has yet to be described,” and the Corythomantis amphibian, though already described, is said to be “rarely encountered” in the area under [...]
Compton Yowie Photos
Paul Compton writes: I’m the researcher that has these pictures. [They] aren’t a stump. We don’t go tramping in Australia; it’s called back packing. The Paul Compton Yowie photographs have been sent in, shared, and pointed to by many people. The following are some of the better versions of those submissions. Click on image for full size version Blowup of detail above Click on image for full size version Blowup of detail above For the best summary on Yowie sightings and history, see Tony Healy’s and Paul Cropper’s The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot:
“Feathered” Dinosaur Was Bald
A close-up view of the head and neck of a 120-million-year-old Sinosauropteryx fossil (top) shows imprints around the body that have long been believed to be early versions of feathers. Recent analysis – (this news is a year old but what has become of this?) – of another fossil of this turkey-size dino species (model at bottom) concludes that the features are actually the remains of collagen fibers and that the dinosaur was bald. The work casts a shadow on the popular theory that Sinosauropteryx and other members of the dinosaur group known as therapods are the ancestors of modern [...]
Yeren Steals Beer
Cryptomundo correspondent Adam Campbell sends along this sighting of a Yeren: I saw a Yeren between Guilin and Kunming in China, in October 1995. I was on a train travelling at night at about 20 mph when the Yeren put it’s hand through the window and grabbed a bottle of beer off the table next to the window. We heard the bottle smash about 10 seconds later. Four of us saw it of which one [of the eyewitnesses] was Chinese; he kept shouting “Yeren! Yeren!” The Yeren had very long thin fingers covered in gingery auburn hair. We assume that [...]
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