Bipolar beasts.
The Census of Marine Life has just released a study of the ocean creatures living in the Arctic and the Antarctic with a startling revelation: 235 identical species thrive in the waters around the North and South Poles, despite the distance 11,000 kilometers between them.
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/2009/02/unsolved-mystery-identical-sea-critters.html
The `Beast of Banbury`
Danny Hastie, a greenkeeper at Cherwell Edge Golf Course near Chacombe, said: "I was out on the course and it just bundled out of a tree about three feet away. "I was there with another greenkeeper and we just stood still; we were quite shocked"
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/2009/02/big-cat-sightings-reported-on-golf.html
Water Voles saved from Sewage
Water voles living close to a sewage treatment plant in east London will be rehoused while the plant undergoes extensions, Thames Water has said. Wildlife experts are using carrots and apples to lure nearly 30 voles discovered at Crossness Marshes beside Crossness Sewage Treatment Works.
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/2009/02/water-voles-rescued-from-sewage.html
However these are just three of over thirty stories posted in the last few days. For more stories, all courtesy of Gavin Lloyd Wilson check out the CFZ Daily News service at:
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
GUEST BLOGGER FLEUR FULCHER: Battletoads - beleaguered batrachians and ambushed anurans
Over, once again to the divine Ms F. Charming as usual, she is taking up cudgels on behalf of the poor downtrodden amphibians of the planet. They are in crisis - but there is good news as well...Worldwide things are looking dire on the amphibian front, the Chytrid disease has been spreading fast and there is as yet no treatment, one billion frogs also end up as food for humans each year, or used in traditional medicines and rituals.
Yet there are still pieces of good news from the amphibian world, an expedition by Frontiers has discovered 15 new species in Tanzania’s remote mountain forests. Some of these are bizarre looking, brightly coloured and covered in lumps, bumps and growths. But the most unusual characteristic displayed by the newly found Nectophrynoides toads is that they give birth to live offspring rather than laying eggs.
As well as these toads there is a new type of very cute looking burrowing toad belonging to the genus Probreviceps, unfortunately, this little toad is already in danger from habitat loss, the ecologically important forests in which it lives are rapidly being felled.
The success of this expedition shows the need for more exploration into the more remote forests, valleys and mountains to record and protect the animal inhabitants of these places before their homes vanish forever.
If these adorable lumpy bumpy and burrowing toads are not enough to catch your attention to the plight facing our planet’s amphibians then perhaps the ever photogenic tree frog will do the trick, the new one found in Tanzania is from the genus Leptopelis, and I cannot imagine looking into its huge browny gold eyes and telling it I don’t care about frogs and their kin.
It is unfortunate that there are many types of amphibian that are heading towards the same fate as the famous golden toad, but this does not have to happen, if a cure can be found for the disease, important habitats protected and responsible collecting methods for the food and pet trades enforced then who knows how many new species we will find in the future. If those things are not done then it is almost inevitable that many species of amphibian will disappear before science, (and the rest of us) has even had a chance to see them.
Friday, January 16, 2009
You Have to Check this Out.....
Cryptozoology Online: The CFZ Illinois Project
In 2004, CFZ Director Jon Downes went to Illinois in the heartland of America's midwest. He became fascinated with the cryptozoology of the state, and vowed to start a dedicated CFZ project on the subject. Five years later, Derek Grebner, one of the frighteningly enthusiastic young turks of the CFZ has taken the project over with impressive results...
CHECK HIM OUT...HE IS WELL WORTH IT
In 2004, CFZ Director Jon Downes went to Illinois in the heartland of America's midwest. He became fascinated with the cryptozoology of the state, and vowed to start a dedicated CFZ project on the subject. Five years later, Derek Grebner, one of the frighteningly enthusiastic young turks of the CFZ has taken the project over with impressive results...
CHECK HIM OUT...HE IS WELL WORTH IT
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