A wolverine has been captured on camera by an Oregon State student. A wolverine has been spotted in the Sierra Nevada mountains for the first time since 1922. According to CBS5: A research project aimed at martens has turned up a bigger prize: a picture of a wolverine, an elusive animal scientists feared may have been driven out of the Sierra Nevada long ago by human activity. The discovery could affect land-use decisions if the wolverine is declared an endangered species, a step the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering, although the animals typically live at high elevations where [...]
Scott T. Norman’s Funeral & Memorials
Scott T. Norman, 43, a dedicated and famed cryptozoologist, who specifically was interested in cryptid dinosaurs, died suddenly during the early morning hours of Friday, February 29, 2008, in Fullerton, California. His family has informed me that Scott’s funeral will now occur at 11:00 am Pacific time, on Monday, March 10, 2008, at the Petra Bible Church, 115 Iris Drive, Salina, California (831-422-5683). See map below. Scott on the Urubamba River in Peru. Scott’s local church, the Eastside Christian Church, 2505 Yorba Linda Blvd, Fullerton, California (714-871-6844), will have a memorial service for Scott Norman on his birthday, March 15, [...]
One Day to 10,000 BC
When I was speaking in Belfast, and mentioned the opening tomorrow of 10,000 BC, the crowd actually burst out in yelps, smiles, and excited talking. There is great anticipation out there for this one. One day until the film. Remember, you can win prizes from Cryptomundo in conjunction with the new film opening on March 7th, 10,000 BC. Oops, that looks like the movie already opened in March of 10,000 BC. The move opens on Friday, of course! For the contest, click here, then go half way down that page, for the rules to obtain a giveaway. Best wishes and [...]
White Yeti & Mutant Ready
The Portland Phoenix’s Deirdre Fulton attended my talk today, and she just posted a flash review, here. It was a good crowd, and I appreciated the good introduction from local artist and library staff supervisor Michelle Souliere. Michelle Souliere views Swanson’s White Yeti (a/k/a “Killing Moon”), when it was at Bates College’s Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale. Fulton’s article reminded me of two things: 1) “All politics is local,” as longtime Speaker of the House in the U.S. Congress Tip O’Neill would said. He, of course, was talking about how the concerns and focusses of the rural areas, towns [...]
Scott Norman’s Pterosaur Sighting: Update
There is more data to be added to the initial Pterosaur sighting info you read about here. Chad Arment has posted the full information he has on Scott Norman’s sighting in his posting “The Scott Norman ‘Pterosaur’ Sighting: His Own Words.” Chad shares Scott’s description of what he sighted: The animal I saw had an 8-10 foot wing span, the wings were bat-like in shape, the inside had that wavy type of look. The body was about 5-6 feet in length, the neck about 1-2 feet in length, the head was about four feet in length, and the head was [...]
Hobbits Debate Heats Up
The Homo floresiensis debate has been reenergized again with the publication of a new paper in the journal Proc. R. Soc. B doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1488. The following is a clickable link to the full paper, the abstract of which is below the link. Are the small human-like fossils found on Flores human endemic cretins? by Peter J. Obendorf, Charles E. Oxnard and Ben J. Kefford. Fossils from Liang Bua ( LB) on Flores, Indonesia, including a nearly complete skeleton ( LB1) dated to 18 kyr BP, were assigned to a new species, Homo floresiensis. We hypothesize that these individuals are myxoedematous endemic [...]
Evolution of Yeti
Even the Los Angeles Times is getting in step with the significance of cryptozoology. They have deemed, of all the programs being broadcast tonight, the following as their “Wednesday Highlight”: YETI OR NOT? The Abominable Snowman is sought on the season premiere of “Destination Truth,” at 10 p.m. on Sci Fi. This seems like an appropriate time, therefore, to bring up the issue of the “Evolution of Yeti” within popular culture. I’ll leave for another time a more formal discussion of the biological evolution of Yeti, and their place in the biological scheme of things. But how about the reflection [...]
The Wolves of Shelburne
The Boston Globe Rare gray wolf, thought extinct in area, appears in western Mass. By Stephanie Reitz Associated Press Writer / March 4, 2008 SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—When more than a dozen lambs and sheep were slaughtered on a Shelburne farm last fall, wildlife officials suspected either a wolf that had escaped from captivity or a rogue mutt on a hungry rampage. But after the culprit animal was killed and examined, they found themselves with a bigger mystery: How did a wild eastern gray wolf, an endangered species absent from the state for more than a century, find its way to western [...]
New Giant Fossil Bat
Reconstruction of Witwatia schlosseri, a new species of very large bat from the Fayum district of Egypt. (Credit: Drawing by Bonnie Miljour) In a recent issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, scientists report on the discovery of six new bat species dating to around 35 million years ago, which sheds new light on the early evolution of bats. It took over 25 years of fieldwork to collect the 33 specimens that form the basis of the new study. “That translates to a little over one specimen per year – a lot of effort for a single fossil,” said Erik [...]
Scott Norman: Pterosaur Eyewitness
People are remembering Scott Norman in their own ways. Reopn researcher J. D. Whitcomb has sent along the following contribution to Cryptomundo: I too was shocked to learn of Scott’s passing. To those who knew nothing about Scott except for his apparent failure to find a living dinosaur, we can correct a misunderstanding: Scott did see, in the Southwest Pacific, at 2:00 a.m., July 19, 2007, from a distance of twenty feet, an apparent pterosaur. Whitcomb points to these two sources, here and here. The exact quotes from Scott are: “Scott described a flying organism with a wingspan of 8-10 [...]
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