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...
Please can anyone identify this
shark-like animal, washed ashore in New Zealand IN 1901? I have permission from
the Sir George Grey Special Collections,Central City Library,
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.
New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:
Last night I stayed up late watching Ian
Glasper's YouTube documentary about Anarchopunk. Like his book it is called 'The
Day the Country Died', and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was, and at
how high the production values were. If you are even slightly into this stuff I
sincerely recommend that you check it out. I also did interviews with Billy
James, and with Merrell Fankhauser yesterday, and will be interviewing Jack
Lancaster tonight. I am going to be getting the Gonzo magazine out early this
week, but it's gonna be a good'un.
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