Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...
This is not a competition, whereby we sit back smugly and already know the answer. This has got us beat too. The image was posted on Usenet this morning with the only comment being that it was found behind a bathroom mirror in a North Somerset house.
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its a Bead insect made out of decorative beads, my daughter used to make them all the time.
Lovely little momentos.
It looks like the larva of something like a dragonfly or mayfly which has died halfway through moulting; probably not one of these exactly since they're aquatic, but certainly an insect which doesn't have a caterpillar or maggot-like larval state.
Whip scorpion shedding?
http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/whipscorp.htm
It is something halfway through ecdysis, the pigment is only on one half of the body which gives this away. It is an insect (3 pairs of limbs), and from the incomplete metamorphosis group. Being any more specific than this is hard!
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