OLL LEWIS:Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

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On this day in 1974 NASA's Mariner 10 probe preformed the first fly-by of the planet Mercury.

And now the news:

• Five-legged Frog Found In Christmas Tree Jumps Into Todd Ray's Collection Of Weird Animals
• Camera Trap Snaps Curious Tiger Cub
• 101 Beetles Get Names from Phone Book
• Brain Size Didn't Drive Evolution, Research Suggests
• Risk to Endangered Whales from Ships in S. California Analyzed in New Study
• Nearly 900 seals shot legally in Scotland in 2 years
• 'Zombie microbes' may hold clues to origin of life
• Partner organizations assist in Chiricahua leopard frog conservation

Some footage of Mercury taken by a UK-funded operation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWf5BLUOhNM

CRYPTOLINK: THOMAS TASCHINGER: Evidence for Bigfoot remains as elusive as the creature

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.

You may have missed the big scientific news last week, but don't worry, I'll be happy to catch you up: According to the first issue of the DeNovo Scientific Journal, the existence of Bigfoot has been proved by DNA evidence. Supposedly, the big guy is a hybrid of human females and another unknown primate that mated about 13,000 years ago.

I know; you feel bad about overlooking something this momentous. But don't beat yourself up.

First of all, you've got a life to lead, and there's been a boatload of hot news lately, from the sequester to the new pope.

Secondly, it's not true.

There is no DNA "proof" of Bigfoot in this dubious claim, almost certainly because there is no Bigfoot.

Read on...

CRYPTOLINK: Sea Serpent at Devil’s Head

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March 21st, 2013 by Matthew Roach Posted in Articles, Digital Collections, For the Public, Random News from the Newspapers on Microfilm Collection, State Library Collections | No Comments »

 From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library:

Sea serpent stories are developing into a subgenre in this column. Although the creature described here resembles the “DungeNessie” serpent sighted in 1892 in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, this particular sighting took place very near to the 1899 episode of The Sea Serpent That Got Away.

 This article was found in the Dec. 7, 1855 issue of the Puget Sound Courier, published out of Steilacoom. The serpent was seen off of Devil’s Head, on the tip of the Key Peninsula. Then it took off and vanished between McNeil and Anderson islands. 

Read on...

ROBERT SCHNECK: The Bizarre History of Insect Head Transplants

Hi Jon,

A friend forwarded this article to me and I think bloggo readers will enjoy it. 

The Bizarre History of Insect Head Transplants

Head transplants sound the most crazy futuristic scenario imaginable. Right? But not to entomologists. They’ve been transplanting the head of one insect onto another for 90 years -- while keeping both insects alive. What can you learn from giving an insect a total head transplant?

http://io9.com/the-bizarre-history-of-insect-head-transplants-456738894

DALE DRINNON: Marozi, Medcroc, Benny's Blog, Cedar & Willow

New at Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/03/marozi.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/03/possible-medcroc-seen-in-spain.html

New at Cedar and Willow:

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/03/perona-formerly-known-as-alice-in.html

New at Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/03/gale-storm-and-zasu-pitts.html

Best Wishes, Dale D.

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (C...

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.

• Rare bird gets peg leg after losing limb in golf a...
•      Starving refuge of water will result in bird death...
•      Nature Versus Nurture: Better Looking Birds Have H...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS A HAPPY LITTLE FELLOW

Today's mailbag included two infectiously peculiar albums that are just about to be released on Gonzo: Sly Guitar by John Ellis (who has always been one of my favourite guitarists) and Gridlock by Mr Averill, which is in the same avant garde but both clever and entertaining territory as the more insane end of Tom Waits. I confidently predict that neither album will be off the office playlist for yonks. In other news the saga of the missing Danish passport is nearly sorted out, and on Saturday I will be taking my life in my hands in an unparalleled display of bravery: the house will be full of teenagers and cake.

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Judge Smith and David Jackson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/gonzo-track-of-day-judge-smith-david.html

Once again we repair to Austin for our daily audience with Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html

EXCLUSIVE: Graham Inglis interviews Alan Davey - part 2
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/exclusive-graham-inglis-interviews-alan_28.html

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Hawkwind when they were Young
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/cabinet-of-curiosities-hawkwind-when.html

Mimi Page goes ghost-hunting
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/true-bloods-brit-morgan-and.html

New music from Genre Peak
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-music-from-genre-peak.html

Steve Howe interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-move-yourself-with-yes-man-steve_27.html

Merrell Fankhauser at Area 51 (review)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/merrell-fankhauser-area-51-review.html

M D-B @ SXSW (I like being cryptic)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/michael-des-barres-at-sxsw.html

*  The Gonzo Daily is a two-way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at  jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work or even just say hello,  please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow....

*  The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who, together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't), puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with various fish and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus... did we mention the orange cats?

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today

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On this day in 1960 Chris Barrie was born. Barrie is best known for his roles as Lara Croft's butler in Tomb Raider and as Rimmer in Red Dwarf, his greatest and funniest role was that of the by-the-book leisure-centre manager Gordon Brittas in the Brittas Empire.

And now the news:

Massive Extinction Fueled Rise of Crocodiles

Newly created woodland scores an arachnid first fo...

Whale shark capture threatens Kenya’s image for re...

PETA in a Dogfight over its Euthanasia Practices

How Whales' Ancestors Left Land Behind

Strange “Troll” Creature Photographed in Rural Pen...

“Genuine” Bigfoot Hair Sample From Oregon Hits the...

How To Save America's Rarest Turtle: Lower Our Exp...

As if by magic the first episode of the Brittas Empire appeared.... Excellent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWgMF2qp-pU