WELCOME TO THE CFZ BLOG NETWORK: COME AND JOIN THE FUN

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...

Search This Blog

WATCH OUR WEEKLY WEBtv SHOW

SUPPORT OTT ON PATREON

SUPPORT OTT ON PATREON
Click on this logo to find out more about helping CFZtv and getting some smashing rewards...

SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

Check it out here


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...




Sunday, February 21, 2010

MYSTERIOUS CARCASS WASHED UP IN NEWFOUNDLAND

Neither local residents Warrick Lovell, Rich Park, Basil Park, or anyone else it seems, knows what the big creature found dead on a beach here this week might be.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Corner Brook intends to check out the Lower Cove site today, hoping to find some answers for the question of many curious onlookers who went there to see for themselves what Lovell found during a Wednesday afternoon walk on the beach.

“It would be nice to see if anyone knows what it is,” says Lovell. “First I thought it was a seal washed up (on the high tide earlier in the day), but when I went down to check on my boat that evening, I walked over to see and then I knew it wasn’t a seal.

Read On

Thank you to Lindsay Selby for her sleuth-like ability at hunting out stories that I would otherwise have missed....
Posted by at
Labels: ,

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like a hunk of hide of some sort. I imagine it is ONLY the skin off of something or 'nother. Could take DNA testing to figure out what it was once.

1:00 PM
Richard Freeman said...

Sleeper shark by the look of it.

1:08 PM
Rich said...

I will be looking forward to the followup from this. I wouldn't be expecting any groundbreaking discovery, but it can't fail to be interesting.

At least it looks cold there. Should slow decomposition to a degree.

I am also looking forward to hearing about your analysis of the "blue dogs of Texas"

7:56 PM
Oll Lewis said...

The shape of it, and where it was found, says giant squid to me. The top of the mantle is pointing towards the camera and that long protrusion is one of the tentacles.

8:12 PM
Markus said...

We all know that "hair" within a description of a carcass must not truly be hair. But if so it could only be a mammal as a friend of mine pointed out. I'am looking forward to the analysis.

6:57 AM

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)