Body of unknown animal found near Worthing baffles experts

MYSTERY surrounds the discovery of a skeleton found in a field near Worthing which has baffled experts.

Jodie Salmon, 23, of Collingwood Road, Goring, was walking her dog near Chanctonbury Ring on Thursday, when she made the grizzly discovery.

Upon showing it to friends, speculation grew it could be a big cat.

She said: “At first, I thought it was a snake, but when I looked closer, I thought it could be a big cat.

“I am not sure how big it was, but would guess between five or six feet long.

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RICHARD FREEMAN: Its a carnivore of some form. Look closely and you can carnassial (shearing ) teeth and a sagittal crest on the skull. The lower jaw looks slightly prognathus with the lower cainines protruding. My guess is a mastiff.

TODAY'S BIG CAT ROUND UP

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 are 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.

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Yesterday evening was the sort of one that I very seldom have these days. I sat down with 'Number of the Beast' by Robert Heinlein, listened to a succession of Roger Waters albums and drank far too much wine. Absolute bliss! Earlier in the day Mark Raines came over for a social visit, and then Richard and I watched the contentious first part of the bigfoot series featuring Prof. Bryan Sykes.

 

He and his team should be congratulated: there is certainly an unknown bear of some description in the region, and they have come a good deal closer to identifying it than anyone has before. However, just because two samples (out of four, if I remember right) turned out to be ursine, does not mean that there are no other mystery animals (including primates) in the region. Remember also that of the witnesses cited, Reinhold Messner (who looked remarkably like a Jethro Tull roadie) always believed that what he had seen was a bear. The French explorer believed that the carcass from which he took hair samples was a bear, and the badly stuffed Nazi "yeti" was definitely a bear, so the people who thought that they had encountered a bear actually did so! The only local 'witness' interviewed hadn't actually seen the creature for himself, and was just working off a theory of what might have killed his livestock. So, as I said, congratulations to Bryan and the team - a new, or partly new bear species or subspecies is no mean feat.

 

However, to extrapolate from this evidence that there is no such thing as a mystery ape in central Asia, especially when any cryptozoologist worth his salt will tell you that these creatures are hardly ever seen above the snowline (where there would be very little for them to eat) and are reported from the forested valleys in the foothills of these mountains across a vast swathe of Central Asia from the Caucasus mountains to Western China, involves a leap of faith and a paradigm shift that I, for one, simply cannot accept. The story of the yeti will continue yet awhile.
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
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Today's Track of the Day is by Michael Des Barres (in Spanish)
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Is Disney Hall Ready For an Evening of Uncensored Frank Zappa?
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‘I said: Of course, yes’: Even with few details, Pat Mastelotto didn’t hesitate in rejoining new King Crimson
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VANGELIS - Title from the TV series COSMOS
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Live review: Crosby, Stills & Nash, Royal Albert Hall, London
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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.

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DALE DRINNON: Loch Ness Monster, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs, Cedar and Willow

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/10/king-tuts-relatives-and-blue-eyed.html

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/10/materials-on-rines-flipper-photos-from.html

New at Cedar and Willow:

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/10/anti-zombie-assault-squad-part-6.html

New on Benny's blog fort Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/forrest-lake.html

New on Benny's Other Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/suicide-squad-tank-eater.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/marvel-mystery-87.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today
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On this day in 1938 the actor Christopher Lloyd was born. Lloyd is best known for playing Emmett 'Doc' Brown in the Back to the Future movies, Uncle Fester in the Adams Family movies and voicing Merlock in the Duck Tales movie.

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