Posted by: Karl Shuker on June 13th, 2014
The Arctic wastelands of the Yukon Territory, on the borders of Canada and Alaska, are surely the last place anyone might expect to meet a dinosaur – which is why the following case merits a prominent place among the dubitanda of cryptozoology. The extraordinary tale of the beast from Partridge Creek debuted on 15 April […]
Read: The Partridge Creek Monster – A Living Dinosaur in the Yukon? »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on June 8th, 2014
Closely related to America’s familiar jack rabbits, hares are among the most delightful and enigmatic of British mammals, and down through the ages they have been many things to many people – symbols of fertility, the moon, and Easter, to name but a few. They have also been described in many ways – magical, mystical, […]
Read: King Hares and Giant Rabbits – Keeping Cryptozoology on the Hop! »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on April 23rd, 2014
A very curious type of vermiform mystery beast that may (or may not?) be allied to the notorious Mongolian death worm, but which is much less well known even in cryptozoological circles, has been reported from the steppes and desert dunes of Kalmykia. This is a region of Russia to the north of Chechnya and […]
Read: An Explosive Enigma From Kalmykia – The ‘Other’ Mongolian Death Worm? »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on April 21st, 2014
To misquote Oscar Wilde: To lose one white eagle may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness. In the annals of ornithology, only two types of white eagle have been reported – one in Europe, and one in North America. Both, however, are long vanished, not only from our planet but […]
Read: Whither the Lost White Eagles of Europe and America? »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on April 15th, 2014
Some zoological photographs are so bizarre that long after they first hit the news headlines, they still continue to circulate online, like restless ghosts doomed to wander forever down the highways and byways of the worldwide web, resisting all attempts to expose them as hoaxes or explain them as grotesque yet nonetheless natural phenomena. One […]
Posted by: Karl Shuker on April 8th, 2014
The longest species of praying mantis currently known to science is the giant stick mantis Ischnomantis gigas. Brown in colour, enabling it to blend in with the bushes upon which it lives and lies in wait for unwary prey to approach, this mighty mantid is native to Senegal, southern Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Mali, northern Nigeria, […]
Read: Did I See an Undescribed Species of Giant Praying Mantis in South Africa? »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on April 4th, 2014
Colugos must surely be among the most bizarre yet bewitching of all mammals. Native to the tropical forests of southeast Asia, most famous for the extensive gliding membrane (patagium) connecting their limbs, tail, and even the digits of their paws, and as big as a medium-sized possum or very large squirrel, the two modern-day species […]
Posted by: Karl Shuker on January 25th, 2014
Facebook never disappoints me as a rich source of the exceedingly weird but also very wonderful when it comes to the animal world, and yesterday was no exception. During its early hours, I was browsing the recent posts of various FB friends when I came upon a quartet of photographs depicting a truly remarkable- (and […]
Read: Portraits of a Potoo – Neither an Avian Alien Nor the Bird From Hell! »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on January 23rd, 2014
By definition, no-one has ever seen such a creature, because if they have done, it can’t have been invisible – or can it?
Posted by: Karl Shuker on January 10th, 2014
The internet is the natural home of some very unnatural creatures – fakes, frauds, and the falsely identified. Many of them attract only fleeting, transient attention before being soundly exposed and permanently discredited. However, there is also a hardcore set whose members simply refuse to die – being revived time and time again by unsuspecting […]
Read: Exposing Online Fakes and Frauds of the Cryptozoological Kind »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on December 11th, 2013
In Skåne and Blekinge, the two southernmost provinces of Sweden, a very daunting creature pervades the Season of Goodwill, and its presence is anything but good. Scarcely known outside its Scandinavian provenance, outwardly it resembles a pig, but no ordinary one, for this preternatural entity is in many ways the porcine equivalent of Britain’s phantasmal Black Dogs, and is just as dangerous!
Posted by: Karl Shuker on December 5th, 2013
Sometimes, the most surprising discoveries can be right before our eyes, without even being recognised. Take the remarkable case of the giant pink slugs of remote Mount Kaputar in New South Wales, Australia. (© NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service) Measuring a very sizeable 8 in long, and boasting an extremely bright, fluorescent […]
Posted by: Karl Shuker on December 5th, 2013
Do undiscovered mini-man-beasts inhabit the tiny Indonesian island of Flores? Is a king cheetah depicted in an Indian painting from the Mughal Empire? How can the diversity of lake monsters in Spain be explained? What is the identity of a controversial African ape called the koolookamba?
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on November 24th, 2013
An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found.
Read: Bigger Than Hogzilla? »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on November 22nd, 2013
He was claimed to be the most photographed animal of all time (even appearing on the front cover of dance music duo Basement Jaxx’s album Rooty), and he was indisputably one of the animal kingdom’s greatest, most readily recognisable icons. He died 10 years ago this week. So here is my tribute to Little Snowflake […]
Read: Farewell, Little Snowflake – Ten Years On, My Tribute To The World’s Only White Gorilla »
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