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...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y87IJ4-Rw-cThey have three American presenters and a whole bevy of directors, producers and technicians.
And guess who they asked to be special guest? So that is why I (Graham) am doing the blogs today.
Meoooooowwwwwwwwww!
The case of the ivorybilled woodpecker is still one of the more contentious ones in modern zoology. Is it extinct? Has it been extinct since the 1950s? Was it rediscovered in Arkansas in 2005? Or was it all a colossal con by environmentalists wanting to find a sure-fire way to protect an area of swamp bottom that was otherwise likely to be raped by logging companies? Don't get us wrong: if it was the latter, more power to their elbow, because in many cases the end certainly does justify the means.
A Polar Bear Attack on a human in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. These are pictures of an actual polar bear attack in Churchill. These pictures were taken while people watched and could do nothing to stop the attack! Reports from the local newspaper say that the victim will make a full recovery....
Glen Venezio writes:
ds and sorcery.
Why?
Well, simply because Frazet
ta’s women are no mo
re sex objects than his barbarians are bodybuilders. Frazetta’s people are beings in a primeval world, where both sex and death are part of the battle for survival. Frazetta’s men are prehistoric warriors, bound with sinews developed not in a gymnasium, but on the blood-spattered decks of pirate ships, corpse-strewn battlefields, and in deadly confrontations with both flesh-and-blood and supernatural monsters.
Frazetta’s women have a purity to their sexuality. Their frequent nakedness portrays them as beautiful animals, full of primal energy and fire. Yes, they’re sexy but in the context of Frazetta’s interpretation of primitive life force, as seen through the human figure, even the most provocative of Frazetta’s women appear as almost innocent. Well, almost….
So thank you, Frank, for helping my childhood to be full of magic and monsters, wonder and weirdness. You’ll be sadly missed.
Interesting formation to get to as its smack bang on the edge of Salisbury Danger Area and it lies inside a Military Air Traffic Zone for Boscombe Down airfield.
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