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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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Friday, April 13, 2012

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DALE DRINNON: Chupacabra, Eastern bigfoot



New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/04/tylers-chupacabra-scan.html


Tyler Stone has also come out with the Part 2 of his Neanderthal/Eastern Bigfoot Blog:
http://titanoceratops.blogspot.com/2012/04/neanderthals-eastern-bigfoot-and_13.html

TODAY ON THE GONZO BLOG

Saturday morning on the Gonzo blog, and though the weather is cloudy and rather cold here in North Devon, we have lots of shiny happy postings for you....

To celebrate the release of a new DVD documentary by Tony Palmer on the life of legendary violinist Ivry Gitlis, here is an equally legendary clip of yer man himself playing a peculiarly infectious ditty alongside John and Yoko, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience who went to school with Michael Des Barres:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/ivry-gitlis-john-and-yoko-clapton-and.html

And talking of Michael Des Barres, here is an exclusive picture of him handing over the album masters to Senor Cheesio-Grande himself. Add to that me whinging about growing old, and you have a perfect way to spend five minutes on a bracing spring lunchtime:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/michael-des-barres-delivers-album.html

We have a transcendentally good review of Martin Stephenson live in Liverpool:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/martin-stephenson-smashing-review.html

News on Rick Wakeman's charitable activities:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/rick-wakeman-to-open-age-uk-norfolk.html

And whilst on the subject of Rick, here is an exclusive excerpt from his forthcoming biography, which carries on from yesterday's posting and discusses Rick's role on David Bowie's 'Space Oddity':
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/rick-wakeman-vs-david-bowie.html

And an interview with Roy Webber of Wally and Jackson Webber lifted straight off Dutch Radio:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/wallyjackson-webber-roy-webber.html

Good 'ere innit?

HAUNTED SKIES: Updates



http://hauntedskies.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/haunted-skies-update-13th-april-2012.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/


On this day in 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, resulting in the deaths of most of its passengers and almost all of its crew.

And now the news:


Polar bear shot dead after Newfoundland home break...
Who’s in trouble, polar bears or people?
Attack of the Killer Fungi: Rising Threat Worries ...
Now here's a tail to tell the folks back home! Tou...
Cat breeder's special delivery of kittens via emer...
Juicy fruits just too tempting for chimpanzees
125-year-old sturgeon - via D R Shoop
Is the Natterjack toad about to croak?
Coyote sightings west of Toronto triple
Anglers Rewarded For 'Fish From Hell' Catch - via ...
Polar bears showing signs of disease that killed s...
Historic Highland castle set to feature on new fir...

This scene, from James Cameron's movie, based on a scene from the earlier film 'A Night to Remember' is perhaps the most poignant scene ever to feature in a Hollywood film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLcZ5Rk3Lg

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...":
From CFZ Australia: