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News and photographs of new fish species are routinely published in Practical Fishkeeping. Above are photos of the new Mexican catfish discovered in 2005. This week, the magazine is noting three new eel-like catfish species. Belgian scientists have described three new species belonging to the African eel-like clariid genus Channallabes. Publishing their results in the […]

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Lake Kenosia’s Monster Caught. Danbury, Conn., – The strange monster which has frequently been seen in Lake Kenosia has been captured. It is a monster serpent of an unknown species and its immense size was not exaggerated by those who saw it at various times. Warren C. Baker, a charcoal burner who has a pit […]

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No, it’s not a new member of the Flight of the Conchords group, which already include performers with the pseudonyms of the Hiphopopotamus and the Rhymenoceros. No, the Kangahippomouse is the thing above. Mark Frauenfelder has blogged an entry entitled “Mystery creature photographed in Seattle — a kangahippomouse?” over at Boing Boing. A reader at […]

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Small coelacanth from Tanzania caught in February 2007; it is not the one discussed below. Photo courtesy dinofish. The known range of the coelacanth is expanded with this new discovery, and hope remains high that the “living fossil” fish may exist in some surprising locations around the world. Zanzibar, Tanzania – Fishermen have caught a […]

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Bigfoot researchers record thermal images MANISTIQUE — A group that searched for bigfoot in the U.P. woods this weekend plans to return in August. A four-day expedition in Marquette County by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, collecting evidence supporting the existence of “sasquatches” began with mixed results but concluded with “excitement,” according to BFRO organizer/ […]

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Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), thought extinct since 1961, appears to not be gone, after all. Researchers have found burrows, tracks, and nose pokes made by the long-beaked echidna, recently in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains. Also, locals had said they have seen the animals as recently as 2005. “The month-long expedition by scientists from the Zoological […]

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As I mentioned in the last update, Fox News journalist Griff Jenkins tagged along on the BFRO’s Michigan Bigfoot Expedition. The news from Griff will be reported on Fox and Friends at 8:35 AM ET Monday Morning. As he recounted in his blog from the expedition: Andy and I were in the lead group with […]

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History has repeated itself. Hominids have diminished others hominids, once again. Ota Benga and a chimpanzee, Bronx Zoo, 1906. “A hundred years ago, on September 8th, 1906, the Bronx Zoo in New York unveiled a new exhibit that would attract thousands of visitors to come and marvel. Inside a cage, in the monkey house, was […]

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Panthers spotted in region; MNR has yet to confirm reports Local News – Black panthers are roaming around Bonfield and Rutherglen, witnesses say. Several sightings have been reported to The Nugget and the Ministry of Natural Resources. John Wilson said he was driving his pickup truck down Trunk Road in Bonfield about a week ago […]

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Believers hear Bigfoot’s howl 50 who paid $300 each to prowl U.P. woods for the beast weren’t disappointed. MARQUETTE, Mich. — In the middle of the night, a group tried to lure an elusive beast from its lair deep in the woods. A man banged on a tree with a stick. Another beat his chest, […]

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Even a hard-working cryptozoologist needs to take a break for his birthday party, once a decade, right? Aren’t we all kids inside, sometimes? Snapshots from the July 12th celebration at the Portland Sea Dogs game: During the event, an unknown cryptid mascot showed up to pose with the specially made Bigfoot birthday cake and some […]

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Dr. Shelly Williams holds the Bili Ape cast for media photographs in 2003. Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp […]

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Don Getty, River Otters, Grand Tetons. Used with full permission of Mr. Getty. The photograph does not, however, appear in Ben’s and Joe’s book from last year. Would it have helped lessened the blow of this review against their flank? One would expect that the respected Journal of Folklore Reseach at Indiana University would come […]

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Bigfoot or big phony? Seekers pay high prices They marshal dozens of searchers, lug backpacks with elaborate gear and stomp through the most remote forests in search of the legendary, elusive beast. The manhunt moves to the woods of the Upper Peninsula today following a rash of purported sightings of Bigfoot, the camera-shy ape-man that […]

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M. K. Davis has informed me that he has passed the “rights” to all his files to the film footage taken at Bluff Creek, California, on October 20, 1967, to Mrs. Roger Patterson. He appears to be talking especially about enhancement footage (see below) made from Rick Noll’s enlarged frame by frame photos, which are […]

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