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.
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...
Some people are speculating that this new Owl-like crop formation that has appeared in the fields of England is a tribute to the Harry Potter stories. I like to think, however, that it's a tribute to the closest thing that Britain has to Mothman - namely, the glowing-eyed Owlman of Mawnan, Cornwall...It’s albino day on YNT, so why not sit back and read a metric shed-load of albino animal stories:
White albino swallow sets twitchers a-flutter
Cyprus zoo welcomes rare albino wallaby
Cute pics of Blondie the rare albino porcupine at London Zoo
Albino King snake found in Wrexham needs a name
Rare bird flourishes on the Chase
Will 'Walrus of Love' ignite shark's mojo?
Toe-biting 'lake monster' caught in Darwin
Woman finds snake in shopping bag
French town bans elephants from beach
Report: No change for state's moose hunt
Goldfish survives being flushed down lavatory and is rescued from sewage plant
Usually they just find brown trout….
Jonny,
Richard Muirhead is an old friend of the CFZ. I have been friends with him for 40 years now, since we were kids together in Hong Kong. He is undoubtedly one of the two best researchers I have ever met; he and Nigel Wright both have what Charlie Fort would have no doubt called a wild talent; a talent for going into a library, unearthing a stack of old newspapers, and coming back with some hitherto overlooked gem of arcane knowledge.
Dear folks,
Once again, another young person in the CFZ has been a grave disappointment to me. There was I thinking that Max, upon leaving school, would sign on the dole, and spend a profitable career hanging around on street corners and wearing a hoodie. But no. His A Level results came through this morning:
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
Cryptozoology news and bad pun coming right up:
Giant panda fans retrace steps of first Westerner to encounter the animals
Unique species of Galápagos Islands threatened by mosquitoes
Smaller birds tied to global warming
Study says global warming shrinks Australian birds
Butterfly swarms trigger quake scare
White tiger dies at Rajiv Gandhi zoological park
Snow leopards, meerkats part of new Binghamton Zoo exhibit
Brittany's battle against algae
This ‘algal-mesh’ is killing me… No sorry, that’s as far as I’m willing to go with that song, who do you think I am, Darius?
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