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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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Sunday, March 06, 2016

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

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Stop the badger cull in Devon


Stop the badger cull in: Devon
There has been no scientific evidence to show that killing badgers is an effective way to reduce TB in cattle. Culling badgers is a, cruel, expensive and ineffective policy which needs to be stopped.
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Sunday

ON THIS DAY IN 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovered Guam. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
  • Creation of an island: The extinction of animals o...
  • The castaway: New monitor lizard fills top-order p...
  • Fish of dinosaur era with unique 'hook-shaped sail...
  • Genomic evidence sheds new light on our understand...

  • Magnetoreception molecule found in the eyes of dog...
    • 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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    Friday, March 04, 2016

    RICHARD FREEMAN: 2016 Thylacine expedition

    Yesterday, March 3rd 2016 I embarked on my second trip to the wilds of Tasmania in search of the island’s most magnificent and mysterious animal, the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf.

    Often termed ‘the world’s healthiest extinct animal’ this dog like, striped marsupial carnivore is officially extinct. None the less there have been over 4000 sightings since the date of its alleged expiry in the 1930s. The animal has also had its continued survival predicted by computer programme.

    There are many iconic extinct animals like the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the great auk and the Bali tiger. No one reports any of these animals but people still report seeing thylacines. Together with expedition organizer Mike Williams I will be visiting a remote area in the north of the island following some startling new evidence of which I cannot yet speak. As with the CFZ orang-pendek project, the CFZ thylacine project will be an on-going investigation into the icon of cryptozoology, conservation and survival.
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    RAINES EXPLAINS: Repairing Jon's computer


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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.


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    Thursday, March 03, 2016

    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    The Crandell Campground Bigfoot Incident
    (Before It's News). In 1988 a group of people enjoying a long weekend around the campfire had an encounter with a bipedal creature at Crandell ...

    KING5.com
    This story was originally aired on KING's Evening Magazine in 1994. An interview with well known Washington State Bigfoot hunters Bill Laughery, ...
    Skeptic Checks Out Area In Florida With Several BFRO Reports
    The Legends Beware channel on youtube produces some great videos. In this one they head to Sumter County Florida, and do some nosing around ...

    WYSO
    Ohio is second only to California in the number of Big Foot investigators doing research in the state, and there's a whole community dedicated to ...

    Bigfoot was spotted lurking on the Great Lawn at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens over the weekend. Attendees at the Garden to Plate: Plant and ...

    Bigfoot Researcher's Journal: The Bottom Line
    In this episode of The Bigfoot Researcher's Journal, Mark Zaskey gives us the "bottom line" of the Bigfoot phenomenon. Mark is planning on making a ...
    Bigfoot Field Experiment 1: Is it possible to make 47 inch strides
    Bigfoot Field Experiment 1: Is it possible to make 47 inch strides posted by The Paranormal Review. Share on Facebook. Monday, February 29, 2016.
    Bigfoot Sightings of 2016
    Expedition Bigfoot: The Sasquatch Museum has recently opened in north Georgia. This museum claims to have the largest collection of Bigfoot ...

    New Breakdown Video Truckee California Bigfoot Sighting
    They claim the video was made in July of 2013, near Lake Tahoe in California. There are plenty of bigfoot sightings coming from that area, so this ...

    New Bigfoot sounds recorded by Bigfoot Researcher Christopher Noel
    Bigfoot researcher Christopher Noel has recently recorded what he believes are sounds made by Bigfoot. He has several hours of wood knocks and ...

    Some viewers have pointed out the being does not look large enough to qualify as a jungle version of the Yeti or Big Foot, said to grow up to 2.5metres ...
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