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...
An artist turning hubcaps into animal sculptures; you've read that story a hundred times before. They're usually kind of cute and everyone can feel good about recycling. Bradford-based artist, Ptolemy Elrington, however, is doing something rather spectacular. Look at the sinewy lines of his shark, and the Gothic tracery of the owl with BMW eyes. Read more, and see pictures of a dragon, an armadillo, and a hubcap German Shepherd,at: http://www.odditycentral.com
/pics/british-artist-turns-lost-hub-caps-into-amazing-animal-sculptures.htmlYesterday’s News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 2011 the space shuttle Discovery landed for the last time.
And now the news:
Using a Gun in Bear Encounters Doesn't Make You Sa...Bud-a-bow-bow… the fiiiinnnnaalll touchdown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVlPH3ZiVnU
Since the departure of Helios 7 with Oll last October, the songbird population of the garden seem to be a little more relaxed. There are a pair of thrushes nesting in the yew tree outside my study window, and the first pair of blackbirds (there were three pairs last year) have started doing what comes naturally.
Here, a diligent female blackbird collects moss from the lawn for nesting materials. I think my grandmother (who first laid the lawn) must be rolling in her grave at the thought that there is moss on the lawn, but it is hardly avoidable with the siggy summer s we have had for the past five years.
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