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More species are being found, anew, in south Asia. We can hardly keep up with the announcements. Here’s a quick overview with some photos and links to the source articles. A new species of freshwater stringray (pictured here) has been discovered in Thailand. One of the discoveries was the remarkable Himanturan kittipongi, a new species […]

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I previously wrote in these columns of my desire to travel to New Guinea in search of cryptids spread out all over the archipelago. As if the flying reptiles known the Ropen and the Duah weren’t enough to appease the appetite of any serious cryptozoologist, the monsters of New Britain and Lake Murray have, over […]

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In my last post in regard to the discovery of abundance of new insect and plant species in Indonesian New Guinea, I made mention of a quizzical animal known as the Ri which ultimately turned out to be a misidentified dugong. Yet another unknown Papuan creature, this time a reptile, was thought to be a […]

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There has been a fair bit of news on Cryptomundo about the amazing discovery of a myriad new animals in the wilds of New Guinea. This is fascinating stuff and it just blows me away that there could be so many new species found. One of these days I am going to get my expedition […]

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Highland Park native Scott Simon is one of the heroes behind the effort to save the ivory-billed woodpecker. A revealing profile demonstrates other species are being discovered too. "A boy who played in Highland Park’s ravines now co-directs The Nature Conservancy of Arkansas efforts to save a species once thought to be extinct," writes reporter […]

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New Children’s CryptoZoo Book News Cryptozoology books are not as rare as they use to be, but new ones for young people are rather sparse. However, a good one that has recently appeared is Strange New Species: Astonishing Discoveries of Life on Earth, by Elin Kelsey, (from Maple Tree, 96 pages, $19.95, ages 9 to […]

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Cryptoscatology: The study of field found and collected scat (i.e. dung, feces) of unknown (cryptid), hidden (cryptic), and known (verified, confirmed) species of animals to better inform the knowledge base of cryptozoology (the study of hidden or unknown animals). ~ Loren Coleman (2018).

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Here’s why.

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Not only is today the Remembrance Day for Lost Species, but this year also marked the 80th anniversary of the death of the last known Tasmanian Tiger in captivity, Benjamin.

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Ron Morehead, the man behind the Sierra Sounds recordings and author of Voices in the Wilderness, offers his thoughts regarding Bigfoot and Sasquatch, “Are they endangered, and should they be protected?”

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Originally placed at 100,000-12,000 years ago, Homo floresiensis would have overlapped in time with modern humans, long after H. erectus and even Neandertals essentially disappeared. One of the more fascinating proposed connections between the “hobbits” and humans comes from Indonesian folklore, in the form of Ebu Gogo and Orang Pendek.

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When we think of sloths, we generally picture those famously sluggish, dog-sized, tree-dwelling beasts that spend much of their time hanging upside-down from branches in modern-day Central and South America. Millions of years ago, however, there were several additional, very different morphological types – of which the most famous and dramatic were the ground sloths.

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It may be the most famous one, but the long-necked moekel-mbembe, often likened to a sauropod dinosaur, is not the only mystery beast allegedly inhabiting the vast Likouala swamplands of the People’s Republic of the Congo. Less familiar but definitely no less interesting is a second major mystery beast claimed by this region’s pygmies to live here – a truly extraordinary (and exceedingly formidable) creature known to them as the emela-ntouka, or ‘killer of elephants’.

Read: The Emela-Ntouka – New Evidence for the Congo’s ‘Killer of Elephants’ »

Local News segment on witnesses who discuss Skunk Ape diet

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For the filmmakers overseeing such a complex operation, there was perhaps nothing more challenging or exhilarating than the creation of its main event. “Toho had given us their blessing to re-envision the character, but it was equally important to us as well as Toho that Godzilla look like Godzilla,” Tull says. “We wanted to bring him into contemporary reality while not steering too far from the classic silhouette that so many of us grew up with, and Gareth and the entire team walked that line with passion and inspiration.”

Read: Godzilla – Breathing New Life into a 60-year-old Legend »