Monday, February 27, 2012
POSSIBLY THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN
Many thanks to Corinna who knows the way to my heart better than anyone else.BIG CAT NEWS: Wiltshire and Cheshire
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column inches than any other cryptozoological subject.There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived in some way by us, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.
It takes a long time to do, and is a fairly tedious task, so I am not promising that they will be done each day, but I will do them as regularly as I can. JD
Big cat spotted in Chelworth
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
“It wasn't enormous but it was certainly bigger than a usual cat and it didn't walk like one either – it was quite a determined stride. Mrs Lawes added the beast didn't seem to be on the hunt. “We've all got pets, and my neighbours have got chickens ...
Two more sightings today, one in Wiltshire and one in Cheshire..
Have you spotted the Birchwood big cat?
This Is Cheshire
The pair said they were 'gobsmacked' when the cat, which was the size of a labrador, climbed up a tree before leaping down 15 minutes later. It is the second big cat sighting in the Gorse Covert mounds area. Bernadette said: “I'm going to pursue this ...
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":
- Owlman & Max Ernst — A surrealist painter with cryptozoological connections...
- Big cats stalking the bush? — Australian Big Cats gets a thumbs-up from Dr Naish...
- The weirdest weekend ever — The CFZ's 20th anniversary conference in August...
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
Top Houston Toad Experts Help Drive Bastrop Recove...
Zimbabwe Tortoises Eaten By Chinese Tourists via H...
Rainforest Science: Researcher Licks Frogs to Tell...
Stone Age pebble may be oldest engraving ever
Snapping Turtles in Canada facing triple threat (v...
Can a whale's nose lead it to food?
Killer bees kill mother of 8 in Guyana
Key to Growth Differences Between Species
Rat danger for rare bird filmed
Snakes use sponge action to drink. (via Herp Diges...
Bird Brains Follow the Beat
On this day in 1978 Fortean and Sci-Fi writer Eric Frank Russell died.
And now the news:
Zoo needs help with unique frog conservation effor...Top Houston Toad Experts Help Drive Bastrop Recove...
Zimbabwe Tortoises Eaten By Chinese Tourists via H...
Rainforest Science: Researcher Licks Frogs to Tell...
Stone Age pebble may be oldest engraving ever
Snapping Turtles in Canada facing triple threat (v...
Can a whale's nose lead it to food?
Killer bees kill mother of 8 in Guyana
Key to Growth Differences Between Species
Rat danger for rare bird filmed
Snakes use sponge action to drink. (via Herp Diges...
Bird Brains Follow the Beat
A reading of Eric Frank Russell's short story “Sole Solution”:
IS THIS BIGFOOT IN THE COLORADO SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS?
"Something I couldn't explain from my vacation in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. This ia all I could get on my camera. I thought it was a bear then a very large man
DALE DRINNON: Mound builders and moas
New on the Frontiers of Anthropology, a long and involved posting that took a lot out of me:http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/02/brazillian-moundbuilders.html
With some rather surprising results about skulls from Brazilian Shellmounds. Incidentally, the initial notices did say that the lowest levels showed evidence for a catastrophic sea wave, so I'm still also holding them to that statement. These mounds run for nearly the entire Atlantic seaboard of Brazil.
New on Frontiers of Zoology, a note about a peculiar situation in George Eberhart's Mysterious Creatures, our standard reference for Unknown Animals:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/02/3-kinds-of-moas.html
WW SPONSORS: Aren't Matthew and Emma doing well?
http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2012/02/sponsors-of-2012-weird-weekend.html
The list of sponsors who are donating things to the Weird Weekend raffle grows daily. Matthew and Emma are heroic in their effots. Well done, guys!
The list of sponsors who are donating things to the Weird Weekend raffle grows daily. Matthew and Emma are heroic in their effots. Well done, guys!
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
