Wednesday, December 22, 2010

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1938 the first modern Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) was discovered in South Africa. The Coelacanth is probably the best known example of a Lazarus taxon, other examples from cryptozoology include the ivory billed woodpecker (if indeed the 1999 and 2004 sightings were not a misidentification as some killjoys insist) and Caspian ponies.
And now, the news:

The Magnificent Seven (rat free Fijian islands)
African elephant is two species, researchers say
Sniffer dogs catch ivory smugglers in Nairobi
David Attenborough and the mystery of the elephant...
Man-eating giants discovered in Nevada
Eel trade ban extended until end of 2011

Elements of the past, elements of the future, combining to make something not as good as either; eels:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AckvdGbk4w

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