OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1912 RMS Carpathia brought 705 of the survivors from the Titanic to New York city.

And now the news:

RSPB Media Release: USE WATER WISELY FOR WILDLIFE'...
First ever photographic evidence of tigers in Namd...
Rare bird makes full recovery
Clueless Texter Bumps Into a Bear
Marathon-style bird watching race ends on high not...
World Rarest Tortoises Arrive in the US – via Herp...
Orangutan caught in snare as ‘sustainable’ palm oi...
Fossils Show Surprising Life of Ancient Swimming M...
Why Letting Salmon Escape Could Benefit Bears and ...
Fairy penguin stolen from Sea World, released into...
Alabama Ends Commercial Harvest of Wild Freshwater...
Despite Deadly Fungus, Frog Imports Continue – via...
Tackle Fungal Forces to Save Crops, Forests and En...
Feral Pigs Can Carry Nasty Bacteria That Can Be Tr...
Two-headed Bearded Dragon: One Head Eats, The Othe...

It's surprising they got away with this joke in Ghostbusters 2, but then it treats the disaster with more reverence than having a dog rapping about it being “Party Time” just before the ship sinks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93kYkIdQdFk

LINK: Darren Naish on 'The Cadborosaurus Wars'

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2012/04/16/the-cadborosaurus-wars/

Two renditions of 'Cadborosaurus' (upper one by C. M. Kosemen; one at lower right by Naish) with a pipefish. Not to scale!

Over the last few months, I and two of my colleagues have been involved in an interesting dialogue in the literature. It concerns the entity dubbed ‘Cadborosaurus’ – a marine, horse-headed ‘mega-serpent’, supposedly reported by witnesses from the waters off British Columbia and elsewhere in the North Pacific. People who read my stuff (both here and in print) will know that I have more than a passing interest in cryptozoology, and especially in ‘sea monsters’; indeed, I’ve written about ‘Cadborosaurus’ quite a few times. As I always say, this interest in cryptozoology might be a dumb thing to admit, given the negative stigma attached to the field. And I’m sure that it’s based in part on adherence to the naïve and childish hope that sea monsters, relicts hominoids and such might actually be real.

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LARS THOMAS ON THYLACINES

We would like to welcome our old pal Lars Thomas and his blog - The CryptoDane - to the CFZ Bloggo network. To start here is an interesting post about thylacines...

http://cryptodane.blogspot.co.uk/

It seems to me that Danish cryptozoology (i.e. me!) is besieged by letters at the moments. During a recent clean-up, I came across a bundle of letters that used to belong to my mother. She died almost 17 years ago, so I had completely forgotten their existence. Never mind - I was just about to throw them away, when a single word caught my attention; "pungulv" - that's danish for "thylacine". The letters turned out to be from a friend of my mothers. She had emigrated to Australia shortly after the Second World War with her family, the Temmings, but she and my mother kept contact for many years until what was left of the family returned to Denmark in the early 70's.

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BIG CAT FILMED AT GLOUCESTERSHIRE UNIVERSITY

LINK: Is this the first Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2012?

Has Nessie come out of hibernation at last? From Gary Campbell:

A local man travelling south on the A82 road at 5.15pm on Wednesday 4th April reported seeing a circular whirlpool like disturbance on the otherwise flat calm loch. The disturbance was near the middle of the loch just south of Urquhart Castle. He said it was similar to the disturbance that is caused at sea by bait fish being forced to the surface by larger predators. There was no boat traffic in the area at all.

Just in time for Monster Hunting Season! I await further information on this particular event.

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DALE DRINNON: Monster fish of Great Bear Lake/Benny's Blog

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/04/great-bear-lake-home-of-monster-fish-of.html

And Benny's Blog has an article about some publicity from Hal Roach studios:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/04/some-roach-publicity.html

I have received a tenative deal concerning publication of some of the material on Cedar and Willow. I have been asked to stop putting new entries on that blog while the matter is under considertion. For that reason (which has been in the air all last week), the Cedar and Willow blog is going on hiatus.

Best Wishes, Dale D.

TODAY AT THE GONZO BLOG:

The Gonzo Blog rises afresh to greet another day.

We have lotsa goodies for you, starting with Michael Des Barres in Japan with the reformed Silverhead:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/blog-post.html

The story of how Rick Wakeman turned down the chance to tinkle the ivories for David Bowie:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/rick-wakeman-vs-david-bowie-story.html

A press cutting about Martin Stephenson:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/martin-stephenson-in-tolbooth-magazine.html

Two links to Wally stories on the web:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/link-wally-review_16.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/link-another-wally-review.html

And last, but by no means least, a link to a jolly good Merrell Fankhauser review:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/04/link-merrell-fankhauser-review_16.html