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Monday, December 07, 2009

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

Now, did anything vaguely Fortean happen on this day in history? It certainly did! If I was to ask you what the most well-known cryptid in the world is I’d be willing to put good money on most of you saying the Loch Ness Monster. According to most of the books written on Nessie, the first person to see the beastie was St Columba, who was born on this day in the year 521AD. However, leaving aside points such as he saw his creature in the River Ness, not in the loch itself and that according to some interpretations the ‘monster’ was nothing more than a truculent local shaman; he wasn’t actually the first to see it as the account of his encounter with the monster starts with a group of Picts burying one of the monster's previous victims.

And now the part that everyone skips forward to without reading my intro: the latest Fortean zoology news headlines from the CFZ Daily News Blog:

Is West Virginia part of Bigfoot’s migration route?
No time for monkeying around – 350’s the limit
Mice holding back muscular dystrophy research
Poisonous Poisson
Rare chance to meet a kaka chick
Researchers create first transgenic prairie voles
Scent signals stop incest in lemurs
Ancient site reveals signs of mass cannibalism
Up in arms over kangaroo, emu "Coat of Arms" chips

The Australian Advertising Standards Bureau didn’t act when the ‘chips’ were down.

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