Archive for the “Extinct”
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 12th, 2007
One of the first photographs taken in the wild of the elusive kouprey. Kouprey (Bos sauveli), a wild forest-dwelling ox, was discovered in 1937. (Indeed, the kouprey is discussed as an animal of discovery in cryptozoology, on page 128, here.) Cryptomundo has discussed the ongoing debate about the reality of the kouprey here before. This […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 7th, 2007
An ape possibly larger than any other from the Miocene but Gigantopithecus? The announcement of a new big ape, a breaking fossil find out of Turkey, is turning heads. Perhaps the day is growing closer for more finds of Gigantopithecus too? The new fossil great ape discovery appears to be a species of Ouranopithecus, and […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 6th, 2007
Editorial Commentary Is cryptozoology the newest big time marketable niche to be discovered or exploited? It appears to be so. There’s the Shipton Yeti footprints photographs auction that I’m discussing at Cryptomundo also today, and now this business of someone selling new photographs of moa tracks and the pictures of the animals themselves. I think […]
Read: New Moa Photos For Sale »
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 4th, 2007
I receive good questions emailed to me via my lorencoleman.com website’s contact form. For example, a Japanese reader asked today about an interesting subject, which I will label as the Red Elephants of New Guinea: Hello, I enjoyed reading your website. Thank you. I have read a Japanese book about cryptozoology by Mr. Tatsuo Saneyoshi. […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 31st, 2007
We shall be conducting our 7th European symposium at Engreux (in Ardennes, south of Belgium) between Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th November 2007. The theme is “Unknown Animals, New Discoveries and Biodiversity.” Pr. Franco Tassi (Center of Appennins Studies, ex-director of Abruzzo National Park – Italy), Dr. Enrico Migliaccio (BRAMEA – Museo di Scienze Naturali […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 29th, 2007
Sadly, the world lost the Crocodile Hunter almost a year ago. The anniversary is approaching quickly. Feelings are still stirred by how Steve Irwin (February 22, 1962 – September 4, 2006) died and that he left the Earth too quickly. Intriguingly, here we are again talking about Steve and one of his quests that overlapped […]
Read: Steve Irwin’s Thylacine Hunt »
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 29th, 2007
An extensive survey in 2006 failed to find any sign of the baiji The critically endangered Yangtze River dolphin, or baiji, has been sighted in eastern China, Chinese media report. Scientists had recently declared that the baiji was probably extinct. An international team of researchers spent six weeks looking for the creature last year without […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 23rd, 2007
To many, the reconstructions of Lucy (above) and other Australopithecus species appear to look rather apelike. However, until recently, fossil finds for the ancestors of the great apes have been lacking. That all seems to be changing. The nine fossil teeth (below) from Ethiopia are being announced in Nature, as gorilla-like and said to be […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 31st, 2007
The following images are more photographs being shared from the inside of “The Department of Cryptozoology B. Heuvelmans, Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland.” This location is the sanctuary for Bernard Heuvelmans’ collection of books, paintings, and raw materials, detailing his years of cryptozoology research and gathering of cryptid data. Today, you can more clearly seen […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on July 29th, 2007
More news coverage of the Big Bird sightings in Texas. Click on the link here to watch the video. Sightings of mysterious giant bird continue in San Antonio Loch Ness has its monster. Does San Antonio have one, too? Strange sightings of a huge flying creature have been reported as recently as six months ago. […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on July 23rd, 2007
This is an interesting news piece that does not ridicule the subject of cryptozoology. Click on the link below to watch the video, including the interview of our favorite resident skeptic, Ben Radford. Big-bird encounter one for the books LAS CRUCES, N.M. (July 19, 2007) – Myths and legends about creatures from the Chupacabra to […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 16th, 2007
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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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 16th, 2007
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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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 10th, 2007
Fifty years ago, Bernard Heuvelmans collected and published reports of modern sightings of supposedly extinct mammoths seen alive today, in the boreal forests of Siberia. Thoughts that mammoths had survived probably stemmed from finds of extremely fresh specimens thawing out of the tundra’s permafrost. Two questions, one cryptozoological and the other Fortean, nevertheless, are raised […]
Read: Flash Frozen? Siberian Baby Raises Old Questions »
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 6th, 2007
During the next few days, I will be passing along the complete contributions of Austrian cryptozoologist Luis Schönherr on the cryptid Tatzelwurm. The beginnings of this, through incomplete portions first published in Pursuit, will now be fully shared by the author with the cryptozoology community. My sincere thanks to the efforts of French cryptozoologist Michel […]
Read: Tazelwurm – Part Ic »
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