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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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Wednesday, April 05, 2017

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.
  • NEWSLINK: Trap and cage Aarey leopards: Shiv Sena ...
  • NEWSLINK/VIDEO: Exotic ‘Savannah Cat’ Found Roamin...
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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




    LOUDONVILLE - Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Grassman are all names for the legendary, ape-like creature that reportedly inhabits North America, ...


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    NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)




    The 500-year-old mystery of the Loch Ness Monster could be solved by a Kiwi living in New Zealand's Edinburgh of the South. Otago University ...


    The appearance of the Loch Ness looking creature in the middle of the city can shake people out of their routine, she added. "Get a chance to take in ...

    Scientist Believes DNA Test Will Finally Solve The Loch Ness Monster Mystery
    A scientist from New Zealand has claimed that a simple DNA could finally solve the mystery of 'Nessie' the Loch Ness monster.Professor Neil Gemmell ...


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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

    ON THIS DAY IN - 1242 - Russian troops repelled an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
  • How cheetahs stay fit and healthy
  • New tools to spy on raiding baboons in suburbs of ...
  • Of Star Trek, Mark Twain and helmets: 15 new speci...
  • This timid little fish escapes predators by inject...


    • AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day.)
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    Monday, April 03, 2017

    CFZ NEWSLETTER #18

    Dear Friends,


    For those of you not in the know, at the beginning of each month we send out a newsletter to all members of the CFZ. The most recent (which went out a few minutes ago) included articles on a chupacabra which isn't, a mystery bird, a giant (and we mean giant) spider, and an alleged cyclops carcass, an alternative way of looking at Bigfoot, and a lost tiger, the return of OTT, Expedition Profiles for 2017, Notes and Queries etc.

    The infrastructure of the Centre for Fortean Zoology has changed rapidly over the last few years and truthfully doesn’t look like its going to stop changing anytime soon. The newsletter costs a quid a month (or the equivalent in your currency) and is delivered straight into your inbox by a plethora of tiny invisible elves, or email if your prefer it that way. You can sign up for it here: http://tinyurl.com/jtsq7ew



    If you want to view a sample issue click here: http://tinyurl.com/pw7rw9l

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    Thylacine news


    But is this Australian marsupial, which is also known as the thylacine, really emerging in the wild for the first time in about a century? If it is, that will put ...

    Bill's dad and a mate fashioned a thylacine shape out of cardboard, painted it up with the stripes roughly in the right places and armed with a box ...
    James Cook University scientists Professor Bill Laurance and Dr Sandra Abell will use more than 50 camera traps to survey sites where thylacines are ...
    The last thylacine is thought to have died in Hobart zoo in 1936, and it is widely believed to have become extinct on mainland Australia at least 2,000 ...

    Australia's thylacine has been considered extinct for over 80 years, but alleged sightings, snapshots and even blurry footage have attracted so much ...
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    NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

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    A New Zealand scientist is to DNA test the waters of Loch Ness in another bid to determine once and for all if Nessie exists. Professor Neil Gemmell ...

    Scientists to test water of Loch Ness for DNA to find out once and for all if Nessie is real
    Boffin from New Zealand has set out to discover if the myth of the Loch Ness Monster is true[/caption]. Prof Gemmell, from The University of Otago in ...
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