Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 10th, 2007
I remember seeing this commercial several years back and it cracked me up. Nothing like a pop culture reference to a cryptid to make my day…
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 7th, 2007
KNM-ER 1470 = Homo rudolfensis = ancient ape? The skull above was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo in 1972, at Koobi Fora in Kenya. It has an estimated age of 1.9 million years. Originally, KNM-ER 1470 was claimed to be a Homo habilis skull. The braincase was found to be surprisingly modern in many respects, much […]
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 6th, 2007
Earlier in the week, I posted here on Cryptomundo about the recent primate fossil finds here in Texas at New Texas Primate Species Found! Last year, at the Bigfoot in Texas? exhibit, which was a joint collaboration of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (now Conservancy) and the University of Texas San Antonio Institute of Texan […]
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 4th, 2007
Eocene Texas coastal habitat. Art by Abby Salazar. New primate species found in 42 million-year-old Laredo fossils Something old is now something new, thanks to Lamar University researcher Jim Westgate and colleagues. The scientists’ research has led to the discovery of a new genus and species of primate, one long vanished from the earth but […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 27th, 2007
The Real Bigfoot and Genuine Bigfoot Tracks Part 9: Primate Survivors & Fossils Found by Mark A. Hall Primate Survivors Recognized at Last The Neo-Giants of the Pacific Northwest are one type of primate among several distinctly different primates that remain as elusive. To varying degrees they spread to different parts of the globe as […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 25th, 2007
It is a strange world when I see things like “My Comic Life” end up on Wikipedia and Boing Boing, frozen in cyberspace. Therefore, here is my update with hints of the upcoming adventures of Crypto-Man and a character based on me. Since it is Sunday in Singapore, the time is right for another irregular […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 25th, 2007
Dr. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho will be appearing on June 30, 2007, to give a Bigfoot talk and to sell and sign his Sasquatch books in California. The official press release will be out in a month, but here’s an early heads-up, as the seating is limited to a mere 120 people in the historic […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 24th, 2007
Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America Here’s a new quiz that goes to the depths of your knowledge on Sasquatch and Bigfoot research. I’m joking, of course, for it is only ten questions long, but it is a good survey of some high points of your awareness of the field. It is more […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 23rd, 2007
Can you identify this mystery fish found on an old postcard? (Click on this image shared by Phyllis Mancz to see full size version.) I know, I know. The above photo is still a mystery, but how about some easier questions? What’s your Cryptozoology IQ? Okay, a couple questions are about aliens, but, overall, this […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 22nd, 2007
The London Telegraph reports on an amazing fossil find out of China. Gliding lizard fossil (Xianglong zhaoi ). The skeleton was found in northeastern China, with its most striking feature the elongated ribs that helped to spread a wing-like membrane for gliding Ancient lizard used ribs to fly Most animals with the ability to glide, […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 16th, 2007
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 […]
Read: New Debate Over Luneau Footage »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 16th, 2007
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 […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 16th, 2007
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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Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 8th, 2007
The world’s smallest variety of wolf, the Japanese wolf, also called the Honshu Wolf (Canis lupus hodophilax), supposedly became extinct in 1905 in Nara prefecture. But did some survive beyond that date? And was there physical proof of this, in 1910 in Fukui prefecture? Sightings of the Japanese wolf persist to the present. A new […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 7th, 2007
This old public domain painting is of Acrocephalus palustris, a species related to Acrocephalus orinus just rediscovered. A bird presumed to have been extinct for well over 100 years has been rediscovered in a pristine coastal wetland in Petchaburi, on the Gulf of Thailand. The large-billed reed warbler (Acrocephalus orinus) had not been seen since […]
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