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: Craig Woolheater on March 26th, 2007
In my post Apologies for Sasquatch Skull post, Cryptomundo reader joppa said the following: No need to apologize; fun story! I want to know where I can get a cool fake bigfoot skull! Well, ask and ye shall receive. File: 00005922 Common Name: bigfoot /sasquatch skull Scientific Name: Gigantalopithecus canadensis Details: Behold, the skull of […]
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 25th, 2007
I apologize for the furor created by my post here on Cryptomundo Sasquatch Skull Baffles Scientists! I saw it posted on the internet, and while it was obvious to me that it was a hoax of some type, and obviously an April Fool’s Day hoax at that, it wasn’t obvious to me that it was […]
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: Craig Woolheater on March 24th, 2007
On the heels of all of the talk here on Cryptomundo, and elsewhere, regarding the Bigfoot video shot in the forests of Tofino on Vancouver Island, comes the following amazing news: Sasquatch Skull baffles Scientists! The Tofino Botanical Gardens (TBG) Institute of Parallel Paleontology has made a major discovery at an undisclosed site within the […]
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
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 January 25th, 2007
Composite (left) and reconstructed (right) skeletons of Dryomomys szalayi, the oldest known ancestor of primates. (Credit: Bloch, et al./ PNAS) In the way of new fossil news, comes a press release from Yale, via Science Daily, discussing the origins of primates in Wyoming during the age of the dinosaurs. Well, that’s not exactly what it […]
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on November 11th, 2005
History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of men Godzilla! OK, you got me there. This has nothing to do with Blue Oyster Cult. This is about a newly described prehistoric crocodile that sported flippers. The skull of this croc was discovered in 1996 in the Patagonia region, but was just […]
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