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The Minnesota Iceman. Copyright Loren Coleman 1969. French cryptozoologist Michel Raynal has passed along an interesting, but perhaps challenging to cryptozoologists, paper that has been published in Zootaxa 1409: 1–22 (2007), entitled: “Does nomenclatural availability of nomina of new species or subspecies require the deposition of vouchers in collections?” The following is the paper’s “Abstract”: […]

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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 […]

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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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Remember the Shunka Warak’in? In 1995, Lance Foster, an Ioway (Hotcâgara) told me: We had a strange animal called shunka warak’in that snuck into camps at night and stole dogs. It was said to look something like a hyena and cried like a person when they killed it. Its skin is said to be kept […]

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I will soon begin to make appearances on various television and radio programs to discuss my 2007 edition of Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures, with its official release date of April 24th. Here are some forthcoming radio dates: April 21 – “Dover Demon” 30th Anniversary […]

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The Real Bigfoot and Genuine Bigfoot Tracks Part 10: What Scientists Can Do, The Real Bigfoot, and Notes by Mark A. Hall What Scientists Can Do When scientists take up the study of Bigfoot reports, they might first rescue the neglected and misplaced bones already in museum collections. The field studies, so often considered to […]

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Remember the news of the very large, appropriately named Colossal Squid just captured? Here’s an update, via news services, which are reporting, in part: Scientists at New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, have taken possession of the beast that took fishermen two hours to land after it was netted by chance in Antarctic waters […]

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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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American Bird Conservancy is reporting the first live sighting a few weeks ago of what is “considered a holy grail of South American ornithology,” Xenoglaux loweryi. Commonly called the long-whiskered owlet – alone in its own genus Xenoglaux, meaning “strange owl” – it was first discovered in 1976. Researchers have caught a few specimens in […]

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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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Hill Cane, Iowa State University photo We tend to think that we … know our own biodiversity, and that there isn’t much left to discover in a place like the United States. I think this demonstrates that that’s not true.Lynn Clark, professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology, Iowa State University Surprise, surprise! Two known […]

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A male South Hills crossbill using its crossed mandibles to bite between lodgepole pine cone scales to access seeds. The decurved mandibles enable crossbills to exert strong biting forces at the tip of their bill. Credit: (photograph by Craig Benkman) One does not expect to discover a bird species new to science while wandering around […]

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Of course, the media has gone wild and over-reached a bit in highlighting the “new species” discovery of the Borneo/Sumatra clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) as such a remarkable find in many news articles. Indeed, the cat was there all the time, and has been “in the books” for 184 years. Of course, as has been […]

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There’s been another new marine species discovered in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This marine snail, Tylodina fungina, was collected in a dredge sample with its host sponge. This species feeds exclusively on a single species of sponge that exactly matches its bright yellow color. Despite being featured in field guides, very little is known about […]

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Lutjanus alexandrei is a new species discovered among the reefs of the Abrolhos region of the South Atlantic Ocean. (Credit: CI-Brasil/Rodrigo Moura) For more info see: New Species Of Snapper Discovered In Brazil

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