The latest update on the Indiana Thunderbird blog is now up:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/07/thunderbirds-in-indiana.html
Naturally it also makes a couple of references to Ohio and Illinois as well.
I went ahead and put through the next blog, mostly to get done with it; coordinating the photos and the illustrations were a problem;
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/07/some-other-pristichampsus-sea-serpent.html
Y'know, Jon, increasingly when I put up a blog discussing a composite cryptid category or a category with a series of mistaken observations as well as some possibly valid ones, you describe my blogs as about "A" Cryptid, as if I was saying all Freshwater monsters or all Sea monsters were "Only one thing."
ReplyDeleteWhich is ridiculous.
Today's blog is a reprint of an earlier CFZ blog which integrally refers to TWO different sea monsters, one of which I take to be a mistake (A whale) and the other one I take to be the same as one of Heuvelmans' categories of Sea-serpents (the Marine Saurian) I use a variety of "Pristichampsus'" depictions to show how witnesses' impressions make some differences in the one category (the same as "Dr. Shuker's Leviathan) and then I use the opportunity to say why I think that Heuvelmans' and Champagne's Marine Saurians are two different things.
Which is actually three things, one of them a known species, but the larger category illustrated by five different depictions, with the goal of showing those five are all the same but different to the last two.
I should also mention that from the description Tim (Pristichampsus) gave of the last creature illustrated, he must also be a regular reader of the CFZ blog, among other things.
Best Wishes, Dale D.