Bizarre white alligator

INTERESTING AFRICAN PAPILIO ABERRATION ON EBAY

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Papilio-zalmoxis-ABERRATION-SET-x-1-A1-Tropical-Butterfly-/260923915943?pt=UK_Collectables_AnimalCollectables_SM&hash=item3cc046fea7

Gorillas Pet Tourist In Uganda

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/22/gorillas-pet-tourist-in-u_n_1165365.html?1324572104&ncid=webmail2

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...":

• The Lone Star State Bigfoot — An article about the search for Bigfoot in Texas...
• The Terror Tower — A comms tower that seems to be a magnet for cryptids...
• Profiling Stan Gordon — A new piece about the author of Silent Invasion...

From CFZ Australia:

• Croc cuts lawnmower's grass — Elvis the crocodile attacks a lawnmower...
• More devils join mainland Ark project — Another 50 Tasmanian devils arrive at the sanctuary...
• Ayers Rock (Uluru) dingoes under the microscope — Another inquest on the death of Azaria Chamberlain...

From CFZ Canada:

• UPDATE — Dale Drinnon with more information about North American water monsters...

HAUNTED SKIES: Daily Telegraph 3.10.54

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/12/daily-telegraph-31054.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2004 Taipai 101, at the time the world’s tallest structure at 509m in height, was officially opened. It lost the record in 2010 when the Burj Khalifa tower was built in Dubai.

And now the news:

Anti-whaling ship stranded off the coast of Austra...
Deep-sea creatures at volcanic vent
Rested & Recovered, Globe-Trotting Turtle Returns ...
Monster from the deep... on the Norfolk coast: 40f...
Before Sounding an Alarm, Chimps Consider Informat...
New Theory Emerges for Where Some Fish Became Four...
Bark beetles, climate change and our future

It may not be the world’s tallest building anymore but it is one of the most impressive, especially when they launch fireworks from it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rUsZMHwC4I

DALE DRINNON: Flying Creature reports

The latest addition to the Frontiers of Zoology blog has just gone up, a guest posting referring to some followup Flying creature reports sebnt in from the Global Warming and Terraforming site:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/12/chilean-gargoyles-and-maryland.html

BTW, the FOZ blog has averaged a new posting every other day for the month of December, and this does not count any other posting on any of the other blogs.

Best Wishes, Dale D.

SEA SERPENT SONNET COURTESY OF ROBERT SCHNECK

This sonnet by John G. Brainard first appeared in the Connecticut Mirror on July 21, 1823. Read more about it at:
http://spenserianjon@eclipse.co.uks.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&textsid=37114,

but in the meantime, enjoy.

Welter upon the waters mighty one—
And stretch thee in the ocean's trough of brine;
Turn thy wet scales up to the wind and sun,
And toss the billow from thy flashing fin;
Heave thy deep breathings to the ocean's din,
And bound upon its ridges in thy pride,
Or dive down to its lowest depths, and in
The caverns where its unknown monsters hide,
Measure thy length beneath the gulf stream's tide,
Or rest thee on the naval of that sea
Where floating on the Maelstrom, abide
The krakens sheltering under Norway's lee;
But go not to Nahant, lest men should swear,
You are a great deal bigger than you are.

RETRIEVERMAN'S MYSTERY CAT (no, I don't know either)

http://retrieverman.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/identify-the-species-11/
The answer is positively shocking.
I'll reveal it in a day or two.

CFZ CANADA: Update on Canadian water monsters

Check it out...

KOREAN GIANT

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/29/north-korea-giant-man_n_1175175.html

Although as far as cryptozoology is concerned this story is almost completely off-topic, there is something ridiculously intriguing about it. Why would anyone spend ages scrutinising press photographs of Kim Jong Il's funeral? If, indeed the Huffington Post person is correct writing: "In the photo above, one man appears to be nearly twice as tall as the gentlemen on his left and right," then unless the rest of the crowd are midgets, this person is between 9-10ft tall!

This is all very odd.