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.
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A similar creature to the Merbeing is the Selkie, which is supposedly a seal that can doff its sealskin to reveal a human beneath. A theory regarding the origin of selkie belief (in Scotland particularly) is that the odd Lapp has drifted south from Norway in his kayak, clad in a sealskin coat.
Some quite credible reports of Merfolk describe animals who look remarkably like the traditional type. In the Orkney Islands they believe in Finfolk - the men have legs, but the women look like mermaids. See Wikipedia article.
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