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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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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Search for India’s lost Namdapha Flying Squirrel

SUPPORT THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN

This project is being organised by the IUCN SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group (SMSG), which we have been a long term supporter of. Durrell's Head of Conservation Knowledge, Dr Richard Young, is the co-chair of the group and for the last three years we have hosted the SMSG programme officer position.
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On The Track (of Unknown Animals) Ep. 99 (Thylacine, Giant tortoises, Loch Ness, wildmen, WWN etc)



Here we have the eighteenth episode of the relaunched webTV show by the Centre for Fortean Zoology, written and presented by Jon Downes and Charlotte Phillipson, their families and other animals. This episode contains: • A brief note of explanation • Jon sleeps while Charlotte tuts • A gorilla with a sack on its head • The new Butterfly house at Jersey Zoo • Galapagos giant tortoises • Hooray for evolution through natural selection • Charlotte's interesting facts • Humpback whale sexual shenanigans • A mystery whale • The Crypto's cryptids: Ron Murphy • Something peculiar at Loch Ness • A new "Thylacine" photograph • Richard Freeman disagrees • Dr Max (hey) in Moscow • Charlotte and Corinna make sexist generalisations • PRODUCT PLACEMENT - Weird Weekend North • Watcher of the skies...with comedy results • New and rediscovered: Graham gets assertive • Jon changes direction • New and rediscovered: New spider • New and rediscovered: Several new freshwater crabs • New and rediscovered: New shark • New and rediscovered: New forest snake • New and rediscovered: New Chinese frogs • New and rediscovered: New lizards in Tibet and Brazil • New and rediscovered: New leaf tailed gecko • New and rediscovered: Two new US crayfish • Fair use • Coming next month • The Patreon campaign • Congratulations to Col Blashford-Snell • The team says goodbye until next month
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CRYPTOLINK: Kirkdate fish monster

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. 


Mystery still surrounds a menacing sea creature found in the middle of Kirkdale as Echo readers can't decide what it is. The skeleton of a large fish or ...
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NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



New Book on the Loch Ness Monster
Not surprisingly, it is entitled "Photographs of the Loch Ness Monster" with the subtitle of ... The author can be contacted at lochnesskelpie@gmail.com.

Is there an unidentified creature living in Loch Ness?
Loch Ness Monster ... Mind you, there are a few eccentric folks who spend a lot of time at the loch side in the hope of a picture that would make them ...
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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.

  • Rare great black hawk rescued after suffering fros...
  • Haida Gwaii home to northern goshawks, rare geneti...
  • The Albatross-like bird that can sniff out fish up...


  • Wildlife lovers upset by bird ensnared in discarde...
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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF




    Sightings of a bigfoot alleged recently at Sutton Lake in central West Virginia may have a historic precedent. Old news clippings that refer to a wildman ...

    Another Bigfoot sighting reported near Provo, Utah
    The Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization has been following up on reports of another Bigfoot sighting in the Provo area. Some experts, however ...
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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Thursday

    ON THIS DAY IN -  1606 - Guy Fawkes was executed after being convicted for his role in the "Gunpowder Plot" against the English Parliament and King James I.
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
  • Snowed in: Wolves stay put when it's snowing
  • Desperately Horny Australian Cane Toads Ride Snake...
  • Protected Chilean sea lions are the 'enemy' of fis...
  • Indonesia tsunami raises fears for endangered Java...
  • Gray wolf arrives at New Mexico zoo for recovery p...

    • 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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