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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.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

JON'S JOURNAL: Dandelion king

I really am appalingly behind with my online nature diary. This is not, as one might have supposed, because I have given up on my New Year's resolution to take more excercise, and whilst out and about to make notes on what I see and do and then to write about it. It is not even because I have been too busy to take the excercise. I have still been out and about whenever I can, and whilst it is not every day, it is still several times a week, but I have been too busy to write about it.

I have been continuing my Natural History explorations, and am now (in a convenient break from interviewing Ant-Bee for Gonzo's website, and working on Moke Hallowell's autobiography) going to sit down and try and write a couple of these observations down.

For example here is Graham with a mandrake. No, of course it's not. It is actually a dandelion. But look at the size of it! I promise you that this is not forced perspective or anything. The plant really was this size. And the amazing thing is that it grew this big from seed in less than nine days. I know this because it appeared in a potted plant that we bought and then didn't plant out for just over a week.

I really had no idea that they could grow this fast..

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