MAX IN THE NEWS (BETTER LATE THAN NEVER)

I missed this when it first came out, but the first line is so dubious-sounding that this news item from 2009 deserves a posting....


Instead of being out with the lads on the weekend, Somerset sixth-former Max Blake can be found tramping the countryside, photographing mutilated carcases of sheep and deer, and searching the ground for tell-tale paw prints.

At 18, Max is surely Britain's youngest mystery big cat hunter – at present, his investigations are centred on Stoke St Michael, near Shepton Mallet, where a black leopard-like creature has been seen and there have been numerous livestock kills in recent months.


http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/Big-cats-max/article-678481-detail/article.html

DAVE B-P UPDATE

David has been in quite severe pain today and was re-admitted to hospital earlier for pain relief. He is apparantly very woozy, but we know nothing else. We will update you as we learn more...

UPDATE: He will be having a scan tomorrow morning. I am certain he will be OK, but it is horribly painful for the poor lad.

RAMS REDUX

As readers with long memories will remember, about a year ago we attended a cichlid auction in the Midlands, where we bought several undescribed cichlid species, which are doing fine, and several pairs of Ramerizi dwarf cichlids, which nearly all died almost immediately. We were left with one plump and healthy female, and so (with fingers firmly crossed) we have found a mate for her. Two days on, he seems to be happy and healthy, although as his bride is considerably larger than he is, he looks at her with considerable trepidation whenever she swims near him....

CAN YOU HELP TONY LUCAS?

Jon,


I'm working on an extensive article about the possibility advanced some time ago by a New Zealand palaeontologist that there could still be a population of smaller variety mosasaurs off the coast of New Zealand, breeding. I hope to go into this more deeply; biogeographical possibility, prey sustainability, isolation, etc. The area that I mostly need help in is sighting reports of mosasaur-like creatures around Australia (preferably the eastern coast) and New Zealand waters.

I would be grateful if you could put the word out and also get a nudge to any other researchers out there. I have quite a few of accounts of these creatures but having more will only bolster my argument. When complete I should be quite happy to hand it over to you for publication in the yearbook if you think it deems such.

Kindest of regards to you and the crew, and I certainly hope you and your dear wife have both recovered from your overseas trip.

Tony Lucas

PUERTO RICO 1998 FOOTAGE REDISCOVERED

Yesterday I discovered something very special: about an hour and a half of footage from mine and Graham's trip to Mexico and Puerto Rico back in 1998. It is grainy and some of the soundtrack is missing but it was good to see the thinner, healthier me - twelve years younger - doing stuff that I had almost forgotten. Roll on the next OTT

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1860 the oldest audible recording of the human voice was made by Leon Scott (no relation to Barry Scott). The sound was actually recorded on a glass plate and at the time there was no way to play it back but in 2008 scientists used a computer to recreate the sound. You can here the sounds on this website, scroll down to where it says ‘Au Clair de la Lune’ (a word of warning though, it sounds like EVP so if you are of a nervous disposition don’t do it just before bed):
http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php

And now, the news:

Researchers from the University of Zurich discover new type of hominid
AN ALIEN GREY (sorry, I couldn't resist that)
New Weasel at Wildwood
Horse bites off woman's finger

She asked the doctor if he’d been able to save her finger. He said “Neigh.”