HAUNTED SKIES: Times (The) 13.8.66.

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/04/times-13866.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1969 the first RFC document was published marking the symbolic date of birth of the internet.

And now the news:

Hyenas Give Up Scavenging For Lent
Birds die after being shot with crossbow
Drought conditions playing havoc with bluebell sea...
Rhino wars - South Africa to make rhino horn trade...
Half of Giant Panda Habitat May Vanish in 70 Years...
Reproductive Seasonality Observed in Male Giant Pa...
Woolly mammoth carcass may have been cut into by h...
'Shaggy' Tyrannosaur Now World's Biggest Feathered...
Meet Harry the crustacean, a colourful crab with a...
Devastating fire uncovers rare native orchid
Source found for 1 chemical in dead cat; others a ...

How the internet works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE

CRIPTOZOOLOGIA EN ESPAÑA: The Kraken Awards

Our friend Javier Resines, editor of, Criptozoologia En España writes to tell us:

CFZ has been the winner of the Kraken Awards in International category !!

All information in :

http://criptozoologos.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/ganadores-de-los-ii-premios-kraken.html

We are very honoured, thank you very much.

DALE DRINNON: Sturgeon/Feathered dinosaurs/ Lane sisters

New Links for Good Friday:
New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/04/massachussets-bay-sturgeon-1819-and-mr.html

On Tyler Stone's Blog
A posting about a feathered Tyrannosaur recently also featured by Darren Naish:
http://titanoceratops.blogspot.com/2012/04/tyrannosaurs-had-soft-side-all-hail.html


And on Benny's Blog, the connection between the Real and Fictional Lane Sisters:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/04/lola-lane-and-lois-lane.html

KARL SHUKER: Hope you like his new direction

I have long planned to write a novel, especially one infused with elements of fantasy and featuring traditional but little-known mythological entities, but other projects have so far taken up all of my available time. However, I am currently experimenting during whatever spare time I can find by writing short stories in this specific vein, interspersed with factual commentary. Here is one of my stories.

Today, tales of vampires are largely confined to novels, television series, and films, especially in the Western world. In the Philippines, conversely, the fear of what are widely considered there to be real, and very dangerous, supernatural bloodsuckers, lives on – as do, at least allegedly, these entities themselves. Nor is there just one type of Filipino vampire either. On the contrary, a bewildering, somewhat interchangeable array of forms and sexes have been reported, named, and classified. Among the best-known are the berbalangs of Mapun Island, which resemble monstrous humanoid bats but whose astral essence departs their physical bodies at nights to infiltrate those of sleeping humans, whereupon these fiendish horrors feed upon their victims’ entrails. The predominant category of Filipino vampires, however, comprises the aswangs.

Read on...

OVER ON THE GONZO BLOG

The Gonzo blog today is another rather groovy one (but when isn't it?)

We revisit Michael Des Barres's forthcoming album, and wonder at the acausive synchronicity of the whole 'Best of British' thing:http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/michael-de-barres-true-brit.html

We have an exclusive video interview with Gonzo head honcho Rob Ayling. He talks about the Gonzo ethos, the lost broadcasts, and forthcoming releases by Frank Zappa, Stephen Stills and Captain Beefheart:http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/exclusive-video-chat-with-gonzo-md-rob.html

Whilst on the subject of Captain Beefheart and the forthcoming Gonzo dvd, here are some interesting snippets including a blogpost about his birthplace, and a cartoon depiction of his life by the ever wonderful John Allison:http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/where-captain-beefheart-was-born.html

The world is a poorer place because, 'the father of loud', Jim Marshall has died:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/father-of-loud-jim-marshall-dies-aged.html

In my day job I am a cryptozoologist, and over the past thirteen years I have studied the grotesque vampiric chupacabras, and even written two books about it. Now proggers Phideaux (who I suspect got their name from the 1975 Goodies annual) get in on the act:http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/chupacabras.html

I am a born-again Wally fan, and it seems that I am not the only one:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/link-wally-review.html

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From Nick Redfern's "There's Something in the Woods...":

• The Creature of Bala Lake — A Welsh lake monster...
• The Cross Timbers Creature Conference — Nick will be in Oklahoma on April 14...
• Shadows in the Sky - Buy, Buy, Buy! — New book by Neil Arnold...

From CFZ Australia:

• Dingoes and Devils the answer for Australia? — Predators to control invasive species?
• On the Track of Unknown Animals Episode 56 — Latest video news from the CFZ...
• Happy Easter CFZers! — An Easter bunny (or is that a Jackalope?)...