Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 22nd, 2008
The official student newspaper at East Tennessee State University shares more about the upcoming program, from reporter Patrick Hawkins. Yes, the headline here has a double-meaning. Images.
Read: MQ: Short-Faced Bear Spoiler »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 21st, 2008
The hairy-nosed otter has been confirmed for the first time in Vietnam. Images.
Read: Vietnamese Otter Rediscovered »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 17th, 2008
A complete description of the immense beast which had been killed by the natives fully identified the animal with the mastodon.
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 29th, 2008
Also found were giant ground sloths, glyptodons, horses, llamas, crocodiles, ducks, herons, and the rhino-like Mixotoxodon. Many images.
“The asphalt-preserved animals could rival those of Rancho La Brea,” said Christopher Shaw, collections manager at Los Angeles’s George C. Page Museum, which handles the La Brea collection.
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 10th, 2008
For years the New Zealand media has reported claims that Canadian moose may still roam the remote rain forests in the extreme southwest tip of the country. In 1910, ten moose were brought over from Saskatchewan in the hopes of establishing a population of game for sportsman in New Zealand, a country without indigenous land […]
Read: Kiwi Moose 2008 »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 8th, 2008
Grey River [New Zealand] Argus, February 17, 1888 A LIVE MASTODON. THE LATEST WONDER OF THE ALASKA FAUNA. The Juneau (Alaska) Free Press says that the Stick Indians, near the headwaters of the White river, positively assert that within the last five years an animal has been seen by them which, according to description, must […]
Read: 1888: Mastodon Sightings »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 6th, 2008
All the donations to the museum are not fiscal. Here is a sampling of some recent acquisitions contributed to the International Cryptozoology Museum. Jeff H. Johnson-painted new Thylacine model. The Teslin, Yukon, “Sasquatch” hair samples from Dr. David Coltman, University of Alberta. Coltman published the scientific paper discussing how the sample turned out to be […]
Read: New At The Museum »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 31st, 2008
I enjoy leading workshops with children, of course, because future cryptozoologists are out there. Recently, in Alberta, some kids got to attend a “dragons day camp.” While there, I spoke to them about cryptozoology on a Monday. Here I am, looking as if a wood bison is about ready to charge me. What’s so incredible […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 30th, 2008
You remember the scene from the end of the first Indiana Jones movie? Recall the endless rows of boxes in storage in that secret warehouse? Of course, the reality is that most large museums around the world actually do have such storage areas. The “outfront” exhibits at most museums are impressive. But, for example, I […]
Read: Secrets of Room N008 »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 28th, 2008
Travel with me today, from the concept of prehistoric trunked animals to the future establishment of Pleistocene Parks in Siberia and America. Regarding artist William Munns’ reconstruction theories about trunked dinosaurs, he observes, “In the matter of comparative anatomy with existent species, no existent skulls are identical, but two types do have nares at the […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 24th, 2008
The extinct Atlas bear (Ursus crowtheri), above, continues to live on in dispute, even here on the pages of Cryptomundo. Today, round two in the battle between a German commentator and a French respondent. Michel Raynal is one of the foremost cryptozoologists in Europe, the webmaster of Virtual Institute of Cryptozoology, the first French site […]
Read: Atlas Bear Claims »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 15th, 2008
In my never-ending quest to give both sides of various intellectually stimulating issues, here is part two of Monday’s discussion on whether or not Mokele-Mbembe, if discovered, might be found to have a trunk. University of Portsmouth vertebrate palaeontologist and science writer Darren Naish (above) has a contrary opinion to that of the one highlighted […]
Read: No Trunks, Says Palaeontologist »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 14th, 2008
William Munns and his reconstruction of Gigantopithecus. The famed recreator of Gigantopithecus, artist Bill Munns has opened a new window into his world and what we find inside is filled with wonders to behold. Bigfoot. Mokele-Mbembe. Saber-toothed Cats. A cryptozoo, indeed. Munns has shared with me his news that he has uploaded and opened his […]
Read: Does Mokele-Mbembe Have A Trunk? »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 12th, 2008
Chris Robinson at the Royal Alberta Museum passes this along to be shared: Monster experts tell all Dragon-inspired lecture series features handful of big names Gilbert A. Bouchard, Special to The Edmonton Journal Lecture Series: Here be Dragons … and Other Creatures Where: Royal Alberta Museum When: 2 p.m., July 6 through Sunday, Sept. 7, […]
Read: Monster Experts Tell All »
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 11th, 2008
Could a bunch of large, hairy, near-human ape-men, or hirsute giants, be living unfound in America? A parallel story from just fifty years ago, suggests that this is a very real possibility. The largest land animal in Canada, the wood bison [shown above], had been disappearing from all over North America for centuries when the […]
Read: The Wood Bison Discovery Story »
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