Archive for the “Extinct”
Posted by: Karl Shuker on June 8th, 2015
In 1980, a very popular television series screened in the UK was Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World, produced by Yorkshire TV, in which the renowned, eponymous science-fiction writer presented a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Four episodes in this series were devoted to cryptozoological subjects. One of these dealt with sea monsters, one with lake monsters, one with man-beasts, and one with a wide assortment of other mystery creatures – including giant snakes, the king cheetah, the New Guinea dragon, the mokele-mbembe, and the thylacine or Tasmanian wolf Thylacinus cycnocephalus.
Read: Marsupial Sabre-Tooths, Queensland Tigers, Blue Mountains Lions, and a Most Elusive Crypto-Cutting »
Categorized as: Alien Big Cats, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Extinct, Eyewitness Accounts, Mystery Cats, Pop Culture, ShukerNature, Television, Thylacine | Comments Off on Marsupial Sabre-Tooths, Queensland Tigers, Blue Mountains Lions, and a Most Elusive Crypto-Cutting
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 17th, 2015
On Sunday, March 15th, Cryptomundian Leticia Blause left the following comment:
See the truth about this dodo that appeared in Costa Rica in this new video
Read: The Truth: Living Dodo Captured on Video? »
Categorized as: Bigfoot Report, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Extinct, Hoaxes, Social Media, Videos, Viral Videos | 5 Comments »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 11th, 2015
Cryptomundian Larry offered the following information on this amazing video…
Read: Update: Living Dodo Captured on Video? »
Categorized as: Bigfoot Report, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Extinct, Social Media, Videos | 8 Comments »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on March 9th, 2015
“Imagine crossing the moors and hills of England and encountering what looks like nothing less than a living, breathing pterodactyl! Think it couldn’t happen? It already has.”
Read: Pterosaurs of the Ghostly Kind? »
Categorized as: Avian Mysteries, Cryptozoology, Extinct, Eyewitness Accounts, Lair of the Beasts, Winged Weirdies | 5 Comments »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 2nd, 2015
Video supposedly from Costa Rica…
Read: Living Dodo Captured on Video? »
Categorized as: Bigfoot Report, Breaking News, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Extinct, Social Media, Videos | 4 Comments »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on February 1st, 2015
European and Middle Eastern medieval mythology is populated not only by such famous examples of fabulous beasts as the dragon, griffin, basilisk, centaur, unicorn, and minotaur, but also by many lesser-known yet no less fascinating fauna, including a small furry mystery beast called the mimick dog. The reason for its name is that the mimick […]
Read: Monkeying Around With the Mimick Dog »
Categorized as: Cryptid Canids, Cryptozoology, Extinct, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, ShukerNature | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on December 28th, 2014
Dr Georg Wilhelm Steller was a German physician and naturalist participating during the early 1740s in the last of Danish explorer Vitus Bering’s Russian expeditions to the Arctic waters (now called the Bering Sea) separating Siberia’s Kamchatka Peninsula from Alaska. During this expedition, Steller documented many new species of animal, including four very contentious forms that continue to arouse cryptozoological curiosity even today.
Read: Steller’s Secret Fauna – Gargantuan Sea-Cows, Inaccessible Sea-Ravens, and Bewhiskered Sea-Monkeys »
Categorized as: Avian Mysteries, Classic Animals of Discovery, Cryptozoology, Expedition Reports, Extinct, Eyewitness Accounts, Megafauna, Merbeings, Sea Monsters, ShukerNature | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on December 10th, 2014
In spring 1987, amid the far northeastern Kamchatka peninsula region of what was then the Soviet Union but is now Russia, hunter Rodion Sivolobov obtained the skin of a giant white bear. To most eyes, it might simply look like the pelt of an over-sized polar bear, but according to Sivolobov, and the area’s local […]
Read: Caterpillar Bears, Bulldog Bears, and God Bears – Ursine Cryptids of Kamchatka »
Categorized as: Cryptozoology, Extinct, Fossil Finds, Megafauna, Out of Place, ShukerNature | Comments Off on Caterpillar Bears, Bulldog Bears, and God Bears – Ursine Cryptids of Kamchatka
Posted by: Karl Shuker on December 9th, 2014
…the publication of The Menagerie of Marvels, whose subtitle, A Third Compendium of Extraordinary Animals, reveals that it is volume #3 in my series dealing with extraordinary animals from both cryptozoology and mainstream zoology.
Read: My Menagerie of Marvels is Here! »
Categorized as: Avian Mysteries, Books, Classic Animals of Discovery, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Extinct, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Forteana, Fossil Finds, Hoaxes, Lake Monsters, Merbeings, Photos, Sea Monsters, Sea Serpents, ShukerNature, Swamp Monsters, Weird Animal News | Comments Off on My Menagerie of Marvels is Here!
Posted by: Karl Shuker on September 6th, 2014
With an area of more than 340,000 square miles, New Guinea is second only to Greenland as the largest island in the world (Australia is bigger than both but is officially deemed an island continent, rather than a mere island). Throughout its length and breadth, however, are dense and often little-explored rainforests where various surprising […]
Read: Dung-Heaps, Devil-Pigs, and Monckton’s Gazeka »
Categorized as: Cryptozoology, Evidence, Expedition Reports, Extinct, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Footprint Evidence, Living Fossils, Megafauna, Out of Place, ShukerNature | Comments Off on Dung-Heaps, Devil-Pigs, and Monckton’s Gazeka
Posted by: Karl Shuker on July 14th, 2014
A very considerable number of unicorn varieties have been differentiated in legends and folklore from around the world – everything from shape-shifting were-unicorns, carnivorous rabbit unicorns, polar bear unicorns with glowing horns, web-footed unicorns, swivel-horned unicorns, and man-eating unicorns with musical horns, to unicorn birds, unicorn snakes, unicorn snails, unicorn pigs, artificially-induced unicorns, and even two-horned unicorns (surely a contradiction in terms!).
Read: Giant Black Unicorns, a Chinese Quasi-Rhino Figurine, and the Enigma of Elasmotherium »
Categorized as: Artifacts, Cryptozoology, Extinct, Folklore, Megafauna, ShukerNature | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on July 3rd, 2014
Introduction:
Despite several decades of research, mystery still surrounds the species identity of so-called anomalous primates such as the yeti in the Himalaya, almasty in central Asia and sasquatch/bigfoot in North America. On the one hand, numerous reports including eye-witness and footprint evidence, point to the existence of large unidentified primates in many regions of the world. On the other hand, no bodies or recent fossils of such creatures have ever been authenticated. There is no shortage of theories about what these animals may be, ranging from surviving populations of collateral hominids such as Homo neanderthalensis, Homo floresiensis or Denisovans, extinct apes such as Gigantopithecus or even unlikely hybrids between Homo sapiens and other mammals.
Read: Download Sykes’ Yeti DNA Study Paper Here »
Categorized as: Almas, Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Extinct, Forensic Science, Men in Cryptozoology, Sasquatch, Yeti | 4 Comments »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on July 2nd, 2014
Last night at 7 PM Eastern, Dr. Bryan Sykes’ Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti/Almasty Hair DNA paper was released from embargo.
It immediately starting receiving mainstream media coverage…
Sykes’ book, The Yeti Enigma: A DNA Dectective Story, is available for pre-order on Amazon.com.
Read: Sykes’ Yeti DNA Study Paper Released »
Categorized as: Almas, Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Books, Breaking News, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Extinct, Forensic Science, Men in Cryptozoology, Sasquatch, Yeti | 8 Comments »
Posted by: Nick Redfern on June 17th, 2014
“When the Wiltshire-based host asked me to comment on the theory that the Nessies are plesiosaurs, I replied it was complete nonsense. For a second or so, there was a noticeable silence…”
Read: Nessie Is Not A Plessie »
Categorized as: Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Extinct, Eyewitness Accounts, Giant Cryptid Reptiles, Lair of the Beasts, Lake Monsters, Living Dinosaurs, Living Fossils, Loch Ness Monster | 9 Comments »
