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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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Tuesday, March 06, 2012

CARL PORTMAN: I should have been there

A house is surrounded by spiderwebs next to flood waters in Wagga Wagga March 6, 2012. Floods across eastern Australia forced more than 13,000 people to evacuate their homes on Tuesday after record-high summer rains drenched three states over the past week, swelling rivers and forcing dams to overflow.
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HAUNTED SKIES: Times (The) 5.10.65


OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

On this day in 2009 the Kepler Space observatory, designed to search for Earth-like planets (that could, in theory, support life) was launched.

And now the news:

Up to 900 tropical bird species could 'go extinct'...
Forest corridors must be created to protect Probos...
Patterns of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in...
Deer culling
IUCN proposes new tactics to prevent overfishing.
Distressed dolphin put to sleep
Farmer guilty of damaging one of Derbyshire’s fine...
Unexpected Crustacean Diversity Discovered in Nort...
Genetics of Endangered African Monkey Suggest Trou...
Gopher tortoises delay some SunRail work (via Herp...
Wolverine caught on photo trap in Montana
Dogs help track down Everglade’s giant pythons
PUMA NEWS


Life on other planets?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--IqqusnNQ&ob=av2n

HELP WANTED

The other day I posted an appeal for people to help with transcribing interviews that we recorded during our sojourn in Texas two years ago. A jolly nice chap called Damian Stansbury replied, and is currently wading his way through the first interview which is about an hor long. There are several more, so if there are any people out there who feel like trabscribing, and helping with our blue dog project, please can you email me on jon@eclipse.co.uk

KARL SHUKER: Modern day nagas, or photoshopped frauds?

Karl Shuker gets interested in photoshop.

"According to Hindu and Buddhist mythology, nagas are ancient serpent deities that can take human or semi-human form, and in Buddhist mythology a naga can have several heads. They are most often represented as huge cobras with expanded hoods."

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DALE DRINNON: Kentucky bigfoot, MoMo, Solutran crossing of the Atlantic


New on the Frontiers of Zoology, important information on the Kentucky Bigfoot:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/local-bigfoots.html
And on MoMo, the Missouri Monster:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/momo-frogfoot.html

New on the Frontiers of Anthropology, New Evidence for the Solutrean Crossing of the Atlantic into America:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age-hunters.html

REDFERN'S CRITTER COLLECTION

One of the reasons I enjoy living where I do, is the massive presence of a wide and varied body of strange and over-sized critters of a type that I just never found back in England. From blue-eyed toads to fat cats, and from mean-looking spiders to winged whatsits, it's all good! Well, aside for my wife, Dana, who recoils in horror every time I bring to her attention that latest beast on which I have stumbled!

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