SAD NEWS: Hilary Evans (1929-2011)

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/evans-obit/

SAD NEWS: Rodney Legg dies

Mark North wrote to me yesterday:

Hi Jon,

Thought I would let you know that Local Author Rodney Legg passed away last friday.

http://darkdorset.blogspot.com/2011/07/news-clipping-dorset-campaigner-and.html

He appared only recently on the Channel Four show "Four Rooms' http://darkdorset.blogspot.com/2011/06/news-clipping-channel-4-show-four-rooms.html

Mark

Rodney Legg is quoted at length in my book The Rising of the Moon and The Owlman and Others. He will be sadly missed

FASCINATING LOOK AT SEA URCHIN BEHAVIOUR

How Dentures, UV Radiation, Covering Behavior and "Collector" Urchins ALL intersect this week!!!!

http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-dentures-uv-radiation-covering.html

RICHARD F SENT THIS: Bulldog/Orang Utan interaction

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: ODD AQUATIC CREATURE IN LOCH ASSYNT,SCOTLAND, 1837-1839

The following article appeared in the Blackburn Standard of December 30th 1840 page 1:

STRANGE ANIMAL a recent meeting of the Zoological Society, the secretary read a communication made to Lord Francis Egerton, by one of the agents on the Duke of Sutherland`s estate, respecting an animal said to have been repeatedly seen in Loch Assynt. In the autumn of 1837, it was observed by two young men, Kenneth M`Leod and Donald M`Kay, who were fishing in the loch. It appeared close to the end of their fishing rods, and is described by them as having large eyes, and it opened its mouth so wide that “ they could see down its mouth so wide that “they could see down to its very heart”. The colour was grey, the hair like bristles, the tusks large, the ears hanging down like those of a sheep, the shape of the head altogether was like a bull dog, but broader. It was seen again soon afterwards on a small island, in the loch, and is described as about the size of a stirk (*) , but broader in the back, about three feet high, with four legs, like those of a pig, but stouter. The description given by other persons of it corresponded generally with the above. It was seen five times in three years – the last time in 1839.

* Stirk-heifer or bullock

HAUNTED SKIES: SOURCE MATERIAL - Hampshire 1995 (Part Five)

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/07/source-material-hampshire-1995-part_27.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1948 Harold Arthur Monstermunch unleashed his new invention, which he named after himself, upon a war weary British nation. Because of post war rationing and the rather cumbersome name it didn't really take off at the time. However, in the 1960s with a stroke of marketing genius he replaced the words “Harold Arthur”with “roast beef” and it took the world by storm.
And now the news:

Mountain lion killed in Conn. traced to S. Dakota
First photograph of mysterious African purse-web s...
Discovered by chance, the secret Mexican crystal c...
Rogue kangaroo attacks 94-year-old Phyllis Johnson...
Giant worm does not warrant federal protection
Deadly Fungus Could Eat Up All The Bananas Before ...
Strange Animal Found in Juneau County
'Vegetarian piranha' hooked in Hudson

Now this is a SERIOUS fish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfd5p1JqUsw