Archive for the “Classic Animals of Discovery”

Rhino Feces-Eating Turtle Rediscovered

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.

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Coelacanth In Ganges River?

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.

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Yeti Hope: Leaf Muntjac Among 350 New Himalayan Species

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.

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Age of Mammalian Discovery

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.

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Was Coelacanth Really “Discovered” in 1938?

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.

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Comoros Crash: Update

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.

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Coelacanth Island Has New Tiny Bat {+ Photo}

Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 25th, 2009

The new species only weighs five grams. Updated with images.

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Dead Bigfoot Photo?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 16th, 2009

What is shown in this image? Where was it taken? By whom? When? Of what? Images.

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First Ever Luzon Megamouth Caught

Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 7th, 2009

This is #41 and here’s the photograph too.

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Gorilla, 48, Dies At Brookfield

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.

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Komodo Dragons Kill Man

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.

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So You Want To Be A Cryptozoologist?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 22nd, 2009

One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is, “How can I become a cryptozoologist?”

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Darwin’s Predicted Moth

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.

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Where Are The Cryptids?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 2nd, 2009

Why is there a mainstream blind spot for venturing into the cryptozoological realm? Many images.

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Komodo Dragon Bites Zookeeper

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.

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