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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.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Friday, June 12, 2009

MORE PERUVIAN "SNAKE" DATA

As promised, here is the second trenche of data sent us by Greg and Mike Warner. For those of you not aware of the ongoing saga, the story broke last sunday when a couple of Northern Irish newspapers carried the story of two explorers from Belfast and their self financed expedition to darkest Peru in search of a rumoured 120ft snake.

We were the only cryptopundits who picked up on the story, and over the next week we became involved in a dialogue with Greg and Mike. We must have done something right because, even though we disagreed with their conclusions extrapolated from the data that they sent us, they asked us to make their data available through the CFZ bloggo and allow the cryptozoological community at large to view their data and make their minds up.



We have the highest respect for Greg and Mike, we simply don't agree with them, that's all, and would love to be proved wrong.

So over the next few days we shall be publishing their data and asking your opinion on it...



For those of you who are latecomers to the saga, here are links to some of the earlier parts...

1. The original story printed by us
2. The plot thickens
3. South American newspapers which claim a titanic snake trashed a woman's house
4. Greg Warner asks Dr Chris Clark a question
5. Dale Drinnon comments
6. We finally release the pictures
7. We try to smooth over the rift with Andre Issi



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