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...
Regular readers will know that in recent years we have migrated the two specialist Study Groups – Mystery Cats (curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy) and Lake and Sea Monsters (curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead) – to their own standalone blogs, although when there are postings, notifications of them can be found on the main blog.
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject.
| This Week's Weird News Although the last thylacine in captivity perished nearly a century ago, the world was afforded a brief glimpse of the creature this past week when the ... |
| Thylacine cap-wearing track cutter Tom Moore is a lost legend of Tassie's Wild West TRACK cutter Tom Moore, with his long beard and steely gaze, cuts an imposing figure, especially wearing a thylacine-skin cap and with his hunting ... |
ON THIS DAY IN - 1620 - The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed at Plymouth Rock, MA.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)
The Gonzo Daily - Monday
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