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...
Jon... yesterday, July 3/10, I was at work when I opened a box that came to us from Mexico. And to my surprise I found a rather large and very beautiful beetle inside. It is about one and a half inches in length and quite dead. What is it...? Cheers
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Its not a Dynastid, the elongated front horn is not chephalic (ie, it does not grow from the head) is it would be in Dynastidae, but pronotal, like _Typhaeus typhoeus_, our native minotaur beetle.
It is a scarab (Scaraboidea) of some sort, the clubbed antennae give that away, but from which family I have no idea. It does look like it is from Geotrupidae like _Typhaeus_, but I'm not much help...
Call me an old fart, but shouldn't that be "Hey Hey We're the Monkees" rather than "Hey Hey, it's the Beetles?"
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