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A male South Hills crossbill using its crossed mandibles to bite between lodgepole pine cone scales to access seeds. The decurved mandibles enable crossbills to exert strong biting forces at the tip of their bill. Credit: (photograph by Craig Benkman) One does not expect to discover a bird species new to science while wandering around […]

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Remember the rumors about Erik Beckjord having cancer, and then some strange messages that he’s recovered? Was it all a plot to see how his critics would react? Surprise. None of us acted like he has regarding the misfortunes of others. So, still alive, on March 19, 2007, tonight, Erik Beckjord is appearing on Steve […]

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In 2002, this was labeled as a frame of film showing Elna Wallace reportedly inside this Bigfoot suit, or did a photo editor mixed up the old Ray Wallace footage with the old Ivan Marx fake Bigfoot footage to talk about the Patterson-Gimlin film? Of course, this was not the first time that newspapers confused […]

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During the next ten days, I will be sharing Mark A. Hall comprehensive contribution, “The Real Bigfoot and Genuine Bigfoot Tracks,” which completes the triad of his treatments detailing his examination of North American unknown hairy hominoid footprints in the context of the Ray Wallace hoaxes. The Real Bigfoot and Genuine Bigfoot Tracks Part 1: […]

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Of course, the media has gone wild and over-reached a bit in highlighting the “new species” discovery of the Borneo/Sumatra clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) as such a remarkable find in many news articles. Indeed, the cat was there all the time, and has been “in the books” for 184 years. Of course, as has been […]

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A copyright-free image of the cougar from Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911. Do eastern pumas exist? Are they an endangered species? Should these “ghost cats” be removed from the endangered species list? Are the eastern subspecies actually different from the western subspecies? These are a few of the questions that the […]

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Jim Jung, 54, an Illinois panther researcher and Fortean author passed away on March 15, 2007. He had for years gathered the disputed information that convinced him that black panthers and eastern cougars lived in his home state. As long as his website remains active, his cougar data on the web can be found here […]

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Double-entendre: A word or phrase having a double meaning; the use of such a word or phrase. Here’s my double-entendre for the month: trailers. Below is the video trailer to the forthcoming documentary by writer/director Sean Whitley, Southern Fried Bigfoot. As a trailer, you will note it does not have CG identifications of the people […]

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You knew it was going to happen. The debate about the ivory-billed woodpecker’s re-discovery has boiled over to the frame by frame analyses, con and pro, of the 2004 Arkansas video on a level comparable to that we’ve seen with the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage. In the journal BMC Biology on March 13, 2007, the latest […]

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This is the reconstruction of Orthrozanclus reburrus, a previously unknown new species, as drawn by Marianne Collins. The precise arrangement of the anteriormost region remains somewhat conjectural. (Credit: Copyright AAAS-Science, 2007 / published in Science article co-authored by Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron, ROM Associate Curator, Invertebrate Palaeontology, Department of Natural History.) For more, see: Newly Identified […]

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There’s been another new marine species discovered in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This marine snail, Tylodina fungina, was collected in a dredge sample with its host sponge. This species feeds exclusively on a single species of sponge that exactly matches its bright yellow color. Despite being featured in field guides, very little is known about […]

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Everyone deserves their own view of Bigfoot, even if we might not agree with their Sasquatch expert’s conclusion. Turn your sound on. Enjoy.

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What was drinking from that creek bed in the neighborhood? This artist’s representation shows Yanoconodon allini, a 125-million-year-old mammal fossil found in China. The five inch long mammal is important for its significance in the origins of the inner ear. (Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation) For more, see: Paleontologists Discover New Mammal From […]

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Lutjanus alexandrei is a new species discovered among the reefs of the Abrolhos region of the South Atlantic Ocean. (Credit: CI-Brasil/Rodrigo Moura) For more info see: New Species Of Snapper Discovered In Brazil

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Video available online at National Geographic News website linked below. A new theory is discussed concerning bonobos and their frequent bipedal gait. Video: New Bonobo Ape Population Discovered A new population of bonobos, one of humankind’s closest genetic relatives, has been discovered deep in a forest in Africa’s Democratic Republic of the Congo. Perhaps the […]

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