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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, December 13, 2017

CRYPTOLINK: We think its a turtle.

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 

 


The Daily Star says:

Mystery giant 'HUMAN-LIKE creature' spotted poking head out of river

FOOTAGE has emerged of an unknown human-like creature floating in a river popular among fishermen.
We say:

It's a Turtle

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/666484/Mystery-sea-creature-human-like-animal-spotted-in-Australian-river-video
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THYLACINES IN THE NEWS



In other words, the last ice age may have doomed the Tasmanian tiger long before "European settlers deemed the thylacine a threat to the Tasmanian sheep industry and the government aggressively targeted it for eradication by offering a £1.00 bounty for each animal killed," the Nature study notes.
Dr Mark Eldridge, a marsupial expert with the Australian Museum Research Institute who was not involved in the study, suggests that when Tasmanian tigers evolved, there was no apex predator in Australia. The tiger essentially evolved to fill a gap in the market. "What the thylacine has done is fill that ...

An international team of researchers led by associate professor Andrew Pask from the University of Melbourne used DNA from the 106-year-old preserved remains of a juvenile thylacine or Tasmanian tiger to sequence the animal's genome, making it one of the most complete genetic blueprints for an ...
The Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, was unique. It was the largest marsupial predator that survived into recent times. Sadly it was hunted to extinction in the wild, and the last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in 1936. In a paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution today, my ...
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BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




An intriguing new documentary is coming to Netflix UK in the middle of December: Discovering Bigfoot, which chronicles a three-day expedition into the heart of Sasquatch Country. The film uses scientific and systematic methods in a bid to confirm the existence of the American folklore icon, Bigfoot.
Mattsquatch Presents: Bigfoot Scat
Mattsquatch Presents writes "Lets talk about Bigfoot Scat and identification. Surprisingly, I've gotten a lot of requests to cover this subject. So here's a.
Bigfoot encounter on Christmas
A family is spending Christmas together when they notice a large creature stalking the edge of the property by the tree line. Here is Bigfoot Tony's Breakdown.


But instead of a deer, a Bigfoot walked across no more than 50 feet in front of me. He was every bit of 7 feet tall, if not a little more, so he had a long enough stride to go from shoulder to shoulder in three or four steps at the most, with a distinct arm swing that almost looked exaggerated. He was intent on ...
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NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



Years of the Inverness Courier and the Loch Ness Monster - Loch Ness Mystery
THE ANOMALIST Glasgow Boy takes us back to the earliest mention of our favorite cryptid in this newspaper, from 1833, which shows that the story predates by a century the better-known reports that began today's Nessie fever. Turning to other folklore, Dr. Beach stretches a point to tell us of The Rise of ...
The star of the show is undoubtably the Loch Ness Monster and fiction or not, she's big business for the Scottish tourist board. The very thrill of ... At the nasty end of the scale there's a creature that devours lovable, furry otters in huge quantities then gallops effortlessly across the surface of Scottish lochs.
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1577 - Five ships under the command of Sir Francis Drake left Plymouth, England, to embark on Drake's circumnavigation of the globe. The journey took almost three years. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
  • A horse is a horse, of course, of course -- except...
  • There's a deeper fish in the sea
  • Why predators have such crazy faces
  • Invasive frogs give invasive birds a boost in Hawa...


    • 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, December 11, 2017

    FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


    What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 

    Well, everything, actually! 

    In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.

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    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.


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