ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":
The PA UFO-Bigfoot Conference

From CFZ Australia:
Monster crocodilian caught in NT
Meet the Cryptozoologist: Richard Freeman
Feral leopard trapped in Australia
Australian carnivorous 'Spinosaur' under spotlight

From CFZ Canada:
Flying bear kills two Canadians in freak accident

CHAD ARMENT SENT THIS IN ABOUT A MONTH AGO AND I LOST IT (whooops)

Nick Sucik recently put together a multimedia news investigation story after hearing about a strange animal attacking livestock on the Navajo Nation (AZ):

http://northernarizonanews.com/blog/2011/04/05/the-hunt-2/

MATTHEW WILLIAMS: Save the saddest dolphins

The pod was swimming peacefully in the Solomon Islands when nets closed in from behind -- trapping 25 wild dolphins for a luxury resort's latest exhibit. They are now locked in tiny pens, starved of food -- but we can free them.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/saddest_dolphins/?copy

HAUNTED SKIES: A Tyneside UFO from 1967

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/05/tyneside-ufo-1967.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1945 Lord Haw-Haw was charged with treason.
And now the news:

Rare Chinese reptile discovered in bin
Is this what they mean by the ugly tree? (Via Dawn...
Grand Rapids audience shows support for wolf delis...
Minnesota research project focuses on saving tiny ...
Are More Mountain Lions Roaming Greenwich Or Are R...
Oh, No! "Most Convincing Evidence of Bigfoot" News...

Nothing to do with Bigfoot but this is a great video that I just had to share:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEBLt6Kd9EY

DISAPPOINTING NEWS

I received an e-mail late last night from Lars Thomas.

Hi Guys,Finally we have the results of the DNA analysis of the antler samples from India. It has taken an awful lot of time, but we do need to check and recheck and check again - and earn a living every now and then :-).

Unfortunately there was no new species in there after all...

The antlers turned out to be from a Sambhur (Sambar) deer -(Rusa unicolor) presumably a juvenile - because although the antlers of an adult resemble those of a fallow deer, the antlers of the juvenile surprised me greatly by looking like those of a muntjac.

It is mildly disappointing but our job is to find out the truth, and not purely to look for cryptids, and we have found the truth.

Richard Freeman and I would like to thank Tom Gilbert and his team for all their painstaking work. And as I often do, I am going to take refuge in the words of Rudyard Kipling:

As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled --
Once, twice and again!
And a doe leaped up, and a doe leaped up
From the pond in the wood where the wild deer sup.
This I, scouting alone, beheld,
Once, twice, and again!