CAT GIVES BIRTH TO DOG? Hmmmmmmmm

FLORIDA'S FRESHWATER TURTLE REGULATIONS (Via Herp Digest)

Links a page describing Florida's freshwater turtle regulations:

http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/managed/freshwater-turtles/. This is a link to all reptile oriented regulations: https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ChapterHome.asp?Chapter=68A-25

Sincerely,
Paul Zajicek
Biological Administrator

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Division of Aquaculture
Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services
1203 Governor's Square Blvd, Ste 501
Tallahassee, Florida 32301-2961
Telephone: 850-488-4033
Fax: 850-410-0893
Website: http://www.floridaaquaculture.com/

I GOT DEM OL' MOLLUSC BLUES AGAIN MAMA

Fact: blue slugs are better than other slugs. It's true! Not only are these Carpathian blue slugs (Bielzia coerulans) magnificently colored, but they're also super big, reaching lengths of 100-140 mm in length. That's large for slug standards. You can find these guys sliding their way across coniferous or deciduous forest leaf litter - typically under dead logs. Obviously, that's the best place for a slug to be.

Read on...

DO YOU LIKE SOFTSHELLS? DO YOU LIKE DARREN NAISH?

If the answer is yes. then you will love this piece by Darren Naish on softshell turtles

HAUNTED SKIES - nervous feet?

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/01/daily-telegraph-71157.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1661 Thomas Venner was hung, drawn and quartered. I bet you don’t know who he was, do you? Well, if not, this is one of those occasions when you’ll be glad that you read YNT today - what do you get if you mix the gunpowder plot with the Iranian Embassy siege and set it during the restoration? Exciting stuff that you didn’t get taught in school history lessons, that’s what!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Venner

And now the news:

Fruit Flies Watch the Sky to Stay On Course

Hedgehog survey seeks public help

Scientists capture first images of rare Burmese mo...

Whaler ignores call to leave Australian waters

Sea lions 'extinct in decades

'Rare tropical fish found washed up on Margate beac...

Another time Saint Paul's Cathedral found itself under siege:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx5hzqjem9s

BIGFOOT FORUMS BLOG: An Interview With Mike Rugg

Michael Rugg is co-founder of the Bigfoot Discovery Project (BDP) and Curator of The Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton CA. The BDP accepts the subject of the Patterson/Gimlin Film as the type specimen for the Pacific Coast Bigfoot or Sasquatch and seeks to create a dialogue about the implications of the impending "discovery of bigfoot" by conventional Western science.

http://bigfootforums.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-mike-rugg.html

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

The Wild Frontier is strangely quiet at the moment. When I came to do my usual Monday post yesterday, there was only one story (and not a particularly exciting one)... and after waiting another 24 hours there is still only one story!

From CFZ Australia:

• Thylacine skull no cryptid, just a dog — So technically it wasn't a thylacine skull at all...

DALE DRINNON: Serendipity at Cedar & Willow

I found some photos advertised on ebay and I made a fumetti. I hadn't intended to, but it sort of wrote itself.

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/01/chickie-meets-doc-savage.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

CFZ PEOPLE: Naomi West

Happy Birthday, my dear...