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When Sir Edmund Hillary debunked the Pangboche Hand in 1960, he had ever reason to do so. After all, he was looking at a reconstructed object, not the original item. Images.

Read: The Yeti Hand »

Tom Slick, the great cryptozoological sponsor, seeker of the Abominable Snowmen of Nepal and the Sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest, has left behind a legacy still able to be seen in San Antonio, Texas. Images.

Read: Beyond Yeti: Tom Slick and O’Neil Ford »

Originally posted here on Cryptomundo on March 18, 2006.

Updated with additional information by Cryptomundian Johnny Poulsen today, July 14, 2011, five years later.

Read: Bigfoot Photo on eBay Update »

Five footprints, believed to be traces left by the legendary “Shennongjia Wildman,” have been found in Chengkou county, part of Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, according to a report from cqnews.net on Monday.

Read: New trace of ‘Shennongjia Wildman’ found in SW China »

Famed Russian hominologist Igor Burtsev had been touring the states and visiting with Bigfooters in the field after having attended and spoke at the John Green Summit earlier in the year.

I met Igor on his whirlwind tour when he attended the Ohio Bigfoot Conference in May.

Below is a post he made on his facebook page this past weekend.

Read: Igor Burtsev and the Inter Society of Forest Peoples’ Friends »

The Ohio author of The Great Auk died in California on July 7th. Images.

Read: Wild Kingdom Writer Dies »

Cryptomundo has been asked to participate in io9’s Cryptid Summer by io9 Editor-in-Chief Annalee Newitz.

This summer, io9 is going cryptozoological. We’re offering a $2000 bounty to the person who sends us the best authentic photo or video of a “cryptid,” or mystery animal. And that’s just the beginning of Cryptid Summer.

Read: io9’s Cryptid Summer »

When will we have proof that Bigfoot is a giant ape, and the creatures of Loch Ness represent a surviving, relic population of plesiosaurs?

And that’s the problem we have when it comes to securing proof: If Bigfoot is just a large, unclassified ape then we would surely have secured the evidence in support of such a scenario by now. It’s the same with Nessie: where are the bodies?

Read: Nick Redfern on Monsters and Proof »

Hôtel des Ventes will sell the fur of an extremely rare specimen known as the Tibetan blue bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) which many cryptozoologists and conservationists have
concluded is the most likely candidate in identifying one form of the Yeti. Images.

Read: “Yeti Skin” Auction »

I originally posted this interview with Richard Freeman as a two part interview at Binnall of America back in 2009 (Part I and II). Thought it might be a good idea to repost it here in one place.

Read: Yetis, Dragons, Doctor Who And More!! »

These are great times to be a skeptic interested in monsters and things that go bump in the night!Benjamin Radford

Read: CryptoSkeptical Books of 2011 »

Another cheesy Yeti movie…

Read: Deadly Descent: The Legend of the Abominable Snowman »

Dr. Eugenie Scott, of the National Center for Science Education and Bay Area Skeptics is critical of Bigfoot, but says, “Scientists like Dr. Jeff Meldrum are on the right track.”

Read: Dr. Eugenie Scott: Skeptical and Hopeful for Bigfoot »

An American blogger recently asked the leader of Russia a cryptozoological question. Images.

Read: Putin Me On: Update – Answer To The Yeti Question »

What did you think? The reviews are still coming in. Updated with New Images.

Read: “Definitive Guide” to Bigfoot [Updated With New Images] »