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...
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On this day in 1875 Hans Christian Anderson died. Anderson was the author of many popular fairy tales that have traumatised young children for generations and usually involve the title characters dying in fruitless gestures, like The Little Mermaid, The Little Matchgirl and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Well I guess it's best that the little kiddy-winks learn the lesson that no deed of kindness goes unpunished early.
And now the news:
The 99%:
Nessie hunter George Edwards took the amazing picture while taking tourists out on his boat Nessie Hunter IV.
Bigfoot Evidence now posts selected messages at Frontiers of Zoology. Here is the first one:
Even though celebrated American naturalist-artist John James Audubon (1785-1851) produced some of the most spectacular paintings of North American wildlife ever created, he has also stirred up a degree of controversy among ornithologists, because his artwork includes depictions of certain birds that cannot be identified with any species known to present-day science. Most of these feathered mysteries are small, relatively nondescript perching birds, but there is one big (indeed, very big) exception – Washington’s eagle. Read on...
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