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Monday, July 15, 2013
NEW GUINEA THYLACINES
I posted this a while back, but apparently I screwed up the link, so here it is again.The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, once populated much of Tasmanian and mainland Australia—where it is also still searched for—but few know that the animal was present on New Guinea as well. Its prehistoric presence there first came to light in 1960 when archeologists discovered the lower jaw of a Tasmanian tiger.
"Further confirmed fossil remains, dating at over 2 million years old, have subsequently been found on New Guinea; and also in later years, unconfirmed sightings of thylacine-like beasts have been reported from both Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Irian Jaya (the western, Indonesian half of New Guinea)," Shuker told mongabay.com.
A specimen of the Tasmanian tiger in the Natural History Museum at Oslo, Norway. Photo by: L. Shyamal.
While Tasmanian tigers are believed to have died out in New Guinea at the end of the Pleistocene, Shuker believes there's a chance a population still survives on the mountainous island, which contains some of the world's least-explored terrestrial habitats.
"New Guinea, especially Irian Jaya, is far less well-explored than either Tasmania or mainland Australia, as confirmed for instance by recent expeditions to Irian Jaya's Foja Mountains, where several new and potentially new species were discovered, including a giant rat, a tiny wallaby, and a new honeyeater," Shuker says. "Consequently, there is a much greater chance of zoological novelties turning up here than elsewhere within the thylacine's former distribution range, and one such novelty may be the thylacine itself."
Read on...
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
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 took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.DALE DRINNON: Giant bat, another iceman, Benny's Blogs
New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
New on Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:
New on Benny's Other Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
Best Wishes, Dale D.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PLAYS CATCH UP
So we are back in Devon. Our friends Richie and
Naomi who run the CFZ USA are here for a few days, which is lovely. But I must
say that the house is very quiet without mother. Things will start getting back
to normal by the end of the week, bt please forgive me if I am somewhat elusive
for the next few days.
So... What's new on the Gonzo Daily?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com
Merrell Fankhauser Revisits Hendrix's 'Rainbow
Bridge' in New Documentary
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/merrell-fankhauser-revisits-hendrixs.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/merrell-fankhauser-revisits-hendrixs.html
One of my favourite songstrels (Helen
McCookerybook) in one of my favourite music magazines (Louder than War)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/helen-in-louder-than-war.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/helen-in-louder-than-war.html
Yes wows Phoenix in going for the three
(Photos)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/yes-wows-phoenix-in-going-for-three.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/yes-wows-phoenix-in-going-for-three.html
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World
Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html
Today's Track of the Day is from The Magick
Brothers
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-daevid-allenmagick.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-daevid-allenmagick.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 two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?
* 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 two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Oll is away, so for todayYesterday's News Today is done by Wally the Comedy Rhinoceros. He is a stand up comedian of some renown. Here is one of his rhino-related jokes.Knock Knock
Who's there
I'm not sure. I have a personality disorder
Ha Ha that was funny. Sidesplitting. Yes. Ha! Now for the news...
And now for a happy tune that you can whistle while you work: