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.
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is reporting that Maggie Cruikshank Qingalik, who is from Akulivik, Que., said her friend saw some kind of creature out in the wilderness. It was a REALLY BIG something.
I took this photo in Whitby Library towards the end of
September 2012. It was in their Asian ethnographical cabinet. The plaque
accompanying the drawing, in a Japanese natural history book,says,if you cannot
read it:” Book of Natural History from 
I've been quite busy since I moved out of CFZ HQ almost a
year ago, but this last week has been my busiest yet. It started with me
getting engaged, continued with me registering my new business with the revenue,
writing and planning out the route for my first event, a tour of the Strange
History of Plymouth, and will culminate in me presenting the first of my tours
at 4pm this Saturday ( 6th of October 2012).
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
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 by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012, Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.
New on the Frontiers of Zoology:
Well, another working week has come and gone. Richard arrived here yesterday evening, and the two of us will be giving a lecture at Appledore Library tomorrow evening at about 7:30. Please come along if you feel like it. We also send all our good wishes and healing thoughts to Annie Haslam of Renaissance who has just had to cancel some dates of the new tour because of a back injury. In the meantime I am reading Neil Young's autobiography which is a complete shambles but oddly rivetting, and am still massively amused by the latest trailcam pictures of a big cat (probably a jaguar) in Arizona:
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