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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.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Monday, July 04, 2011

ODDS AND SODS FROM CHAD ARMENT

The loudest animal (for its size) recorded:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/sfeb-tla062811.php

Weevils have screw thread joints, rather than hinges or ball-and-sockets:
http://www.kit.edu/visit/pi_2011_7536.php

First documented attack on a live human by a cookiecutter shark:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/uof-nsd070111.php
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THE NATIONAL TRUST'S LARGE BLUE BLOG

http://ntlargeblue.wordpress.com/
I only discovered this yesterday, but it is well worth a read....
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HAUNTED SKIES: BUFORA Conference, 2011

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/07/bufora-conference-2nd-july-2011.html
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OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2009 the largest Anglo-Saxon gold hoard was discovered, it was found in Staffordshire and consisted of over 1500 separate items.
And now the news:

Pregnant Turtles Delay Air Traffic in New York (vi...
Herp Digest letter campaign
Ninja turtle (who may be a teenager) climbs fence
Baboon seen monkeying around NJ highway, house
Animals Getting High: New Book Explores Feeling Go...
'Hungry' escaped snake found under kitchen sink
Bird fossils reveal life's colourful chemistry

Completely unrelated, but what can I say, I like songs that tell a story and have an important message: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPGUIpv-JxI
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Sunday, July 03, 2011

DALE ON THE FOURTH OF JULY

A break for some timely editorial comments on the blog today:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-4th-editorial.html
and
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-4-editorial-not-greek-problem-but.html
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Earthwatch team looks to find more mammoths at Mammoth Site in Hot Springs

There are no sparks inside the Mammoth Site this Fourth of July weekend, but the people visiting are still in awe. "It's pretty much an insight to history. To see what happened at certain times in certain areas on this planet," said Andreas Gottzman, a Boy Scout Master visiting with Troops from Long Meadow, Massachusetts. Not only is this site unique because of the number of mammoths and how confined they are, but the active excavation that takes place each day in front of hundreds of people. A special Earthwatch excavation team is having its hand at the site as it tries to discover new mammoths.

Read on and see the video...
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CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: On The Track (Of Unknown Animals) Episode 47



The latest episode of our monthly webTV show from the CFZ and CFZtv, bringing you the latest cryptozoological, and monster hunting news from around the world.

This episode brings you:

CFZ in summer
Launching the Sumatra 2011 expedition
The orang pendek song,
White cloud mountain minnows
Breeding them
Breeding Rio Cauca caecilians
Breeding Aequidens sp Peru
The Indian deer DNA result
Mortimer the skeleton of Selma, Alabama
Oll at LAPIS
Corinna looks at out of place birds
New and Rediscovered: New mice
New and Rediscovered: New inflatable shark etc
New and Rediscovered: New Bee
New and Rediscovered: Rediscovered freshwater limpet
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