Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 7th, 2009
The Arakan forest turtle, once though to be extinct, has been found in a remote forest in Myanmar. The local name for this species translates into the “turtle that eats rhinoceros feces.” Image.
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 29th, 2009
Breaking news out of the country of India gives some pause. Has a new population of coelacanth been discovered? Photo.
Read: Coelacanth In Ganges River? »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 11th, 2009
Muntiacus putaoensis, the world’s smallest deer species, was among the discoveries. These finds do mean there are still active hopes for the discovery of Yetis. Images.
Read: Yeti Hope: Leaf Muntjac Among 350 New Himalayan Species »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 27th, 2009
“Most people don’t realize this, but we are smack-dab in the middle of the age of discovery for mammals,” says the Smithsonian’s curator of mammals. Image/chart.
Read: Age of Mammalian Discovery »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 24th, 2009
Jerome F. Hamlin, founder of Dinofish, shares a question and area of some culturally-based confusion with Cryptomundo today. Images.
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 15th, 2009
Comoros, an archipelago between Africa’s southeastern coast and the island of Madagascar, is the source of the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth. Images.
Read: Comoros Crash: Update »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 25th, 2009
The new species only weighs five grams. Updated with images.
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 16th, 2009
What is shown in this image? Where was it taken? By whom? When? Of what? Images.
Read: Dead Bigfoot Photo? »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 7th, 2009
This is #41 and here’s the photograph too.
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 29th, 2009
Also this week, a 9-year-old chimpanzee at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago died Tuesday, March 24.
Read: Gorilla, 48, Dies At Brookfield »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 24th, 2009
Though they rarely attack humans – and had not previously killed an adult for more than 30 years – an eight-year-old boy died after being mauled in 2007 and attacks are said to be increasing as their habitat becomes restricted.
Read: Komodo Dragons Kill Man »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 22nd, 2009
One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is, “How can I become a cryptozoologist?”
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 12th, 2009
This contribution to cryptozoology is remarkable, as it concerns the prediction, from phytobiology and ecology (i.e. from circumstancial evidence only), of an unknown moth (at the level of the subspecies), the existence and the identification of which have been experimentally confirmed a posteriori.
Read: Darwin’s Predicted Moth »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 2nd, 2009
Why is there a mainstream blind spot for venturing into the cryptozoological realm? Many images.
Read: Where Are The Cryptids? »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 17th, 2009
The latest in weird animal attack news is noted, concerning a new giant lizard encounter and an update about a 2006 San Francisco zoo tiger incident.
Read: Komodo Dragon Bites Zookeeper »
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