Thursday, March 15, 2012

BIG CAT NEWS: Rutland weekend cat-o-vision

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column inches than any other cryptozoological subject.

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived in some way by us, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in.

It takes a long time to do, and is a fairly tedious task, so I am not promising that they will be done each day, but I will do them as regularly as I can. JD

Visit our big cat map!
Leighton Buzzard Today

Following a spate of sightings, we've created an interactive map where you can see exactly where these giant moggies have ben spotted. Cougar, panther or over-fed tabby, our readers are adamant these beasts have been spotted.

Another story about the interactive map showing cat sightings in Bedfordshire, followed by a sighting of a 'lynx' in my mother-in-law's home town of Oakham. By the way, ignore all the horrible prejudices one has against mothers-in-law: my one is delightful...

'Lynx' spotted in Brooke Road, Oakham
Rutland Times

A MAN and his daughter say they spotted a “big cat” in a garden on Monday. John Bangs, 51, who runs a cleaning and maintenance business, says he saw the large cat-like animal at 6.15pm in his back garden in Brooke Road. His daughter Hayley, 28, ...

DALE DRINNON: Freshwater monkeys, Giant Snakes and Atlantis


New at the Frontiers of Anthropology,
A Gravity map indicates an anomaly at the bottom of the North Atlantic:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/03/gravity-map-of-earth.html


New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
Another possible sighting of a FW Monkey in Kentucky:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/another-fw-monkey-from-kentucky.html

And a report on Giant Snakes in New Mexico:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/giant-snakes-in-new-mexico.html

And also an associated posting on Tyler Stone's blog concerning a possible fossil forerunner to the Freshwater Monkeys:
http://titanoceratops.blogspot.com/2012/03/paradolichopithecus.html