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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.

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

GLEN VAUDREY: I'd go the whole wide world - Part One: Antarctica

Antarctica

I have often wondered whether every country in the world has its own mystery animal and if they have, whether it would be possible to travel around the world by following reports of cryptids. The more I thought about it the more feasible it seemed. In the next few weeks I will attempt to do this whilst trying to keep the types of animals as mixed as possible. Where better to begin than at the bottom, so I shall start in Antarctica, or rather in the seas in the region.

Not that long ago, back in 1980, Russian researchers A. Berzin and V. L. Vladimirov were at Prydz Bay when they had a sighting of an unknown Antarctica killer whale. They would later name their mystery killer whale Orcinus glacialis. Since then there have been questions raised as to whether this is really a subspecies of the killer whale Orcinus orca; I suppose until one is examined we won’t know for sure.

So where next? Well, how about a short swim across to South America and a continent full of mystery animals? Next stop: Argentina.

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