ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":

• Puerto Rican Vampirism? — A bizarre experience while searching for the Chupacabra...
• A Hexham Heads Appeal — Paul Screeton is looking for information in connection with this strange saga...

From CFZ Australia:

• From the archives: Bob the Railway Dog (1895) — The story of a widely travelled canine...
• The Thylacines of Irian Jaya — More Thylacine sightings, this time in Indonesia....
• Reward to find shooter who maimed Fleet the koala — though happily the victim looks likely to survive...
• Narrabeen's mysterious elephant man — A strange upright-walking humanoid elephant creature...

A MYSTERY MOTH IN DORSET

http://www.dorsetmothgroup.org.uk/Sub%20pages/mystery_moth.htm

http://www.dorsetmothgroup.org.uk/images/2009/False_Mocha_051.jpg

ROBERT SCHNECK COMES TO THE RESCUE

Hi Jon,

I think that nondescript beetle which turned up in Wisconsin is a darkling beetle. A quick look at the Wikipedia article, however, says there are 20,000 species of them (inordinate fondness, etc.), so that's as far as I'm willing to go.

Sincerely,

Robert

FEED THE BIRDS DAY

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DALE DRINNON: This is why Out-of-Place Animals of KNOWN Species CANNOT be assumed to be Cryptids.

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-is-why-out-of-place-animals-of.html

HAUNTED SKIES: Three editorials from 'Syntonic'

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/10/three-editorials-from-syntonic.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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

On this day in 1844 followers of the American preacher William Miller believed the world would end. He was wrong about that as it turned out.
And now the news:

Leaf Litter Ants Advance Case for Rainforest Conse...
Bolivia's Jaguars Set a Record
Salmon Run Up Dead Glacier
Durrell sharing white-footed tamarin knowledge wit...
Rare antlions discovered in Norfolk nature reserve...
Cyprus Bird death toll reaches one million
141% more tuna is traded than is allowed to be cau...

Every time someone predicts the end of the world they get it wrong, presumably they keep trying on the off chance they’ll get it right and look dead clever for all of 5 minutes. Harold Camping for example predicted the end of the world last May and got it wrong, he then claimed that the world would end on the 21st of October this year instead, as in YESTERDAY… Hmm, well that went well didn’t it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KnHUXa8oY&NR=1

WHO'S A PRETTY MYSTERIOUS POLLY, THEN?

What is it with paintings of dodos and red parrots? In a previous ShukerNature post, I investigated the still-unidentified red mystery macaw depicted in a famous painting of the dodo by Flemish artist Roelandt Savery in 1626. Now, I've just discovered a contentious painting popularly assumed (but not confirmed) to be by English painter William Hodges (1744-1797) portraying a dodo, and what do I find also depicted in that painting? You've guessed it – another unidentified red mystery parrot!

Read on...

DALE DRINNON: Rock apes, Bunyips and Plesiosaurs

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/10/korean-rock-art-bunyips-plesiosaurs.html