THE 2011 ORANG PENDEK EXPEDITION

CFZ PEOPLE: Greg Braund-Phillips

Happy Birthday to my dear Godson, pictured here some years ago. He is thirteen today. Golly I feel old...

JON INTERVIEWED BY MARTIN HESP IN THE WESTERN MORNING NEWS

DIDN'T WE DO WELL?

This is the
7000th
posting on the main CFZ bloggo...

HAUNTED SKIES: UFO reports from Haunted Skies.

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/09/ufo-reports-from-haunted-skies.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

Happy independence day to all our readers in Tajikistan! (yeah, it's a bit of a slow day for Fortean events today).
And now the news:

Marine protection bids unveiled
Willow tit and lesser spotted woodpecker on at-ris...
Plant has evolved a specialist bird perch
Underground chick-killers filmed
King crabs on Antarctic march
South Africa to deploy US military radar in fight ...
Baby red squirrels being cared for by Scottish cha...
Two kakapo found dead
Fiddler crabs keep cool with giant claws

Epic fiddle battling with Devils Americans and chickens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9tEdbwXxXw

DALE DRINNON: Reptoids and Dinosauroids/"Two Times Atlantis"

New at Frontiers of Zoology, continuing the discussion on Reptoids and Dinosauroids:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/09/followup-on-reptoids-and-dinosauroids.html

And New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/09/karl-hepke-and-two-times-atlantis.html

(In which it becomes apparent why I was including those postings on Gunter Bischoff and Jurgen Spanuth: I was building up to explain this 'Two Times Atlantis' theory.)

Best Wishes, Dale D.

RICHARD FREEMAN IN THE GUARDIAN

The Indonesian island of Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world. Sadly it has lost half its rainforest in the past 35 years, erased by the chainsaw to make way for palm oil and coffee plantations. Despite this, in the west of the island there are still vast tracts of forest standing, among them Kerinci Seblat National Park which covers 13,791 square kilometres – about the size of Montenegro.

It is from these forests that reports of a species of ape that walks upright and is unknown to science have been emerging for almost 100 years.

Read on...