Nature Blog Network

Tuesday 3 February 2009

2009: Aquatic cryptozoology - Lake and sea monsters, giant squid, weird fish etc

May 2009: Tatzelwurm as lungfish
May 2009: Sea serpent hoax
May 2009: Chessie
May 2009: Living mermaids
May 2009: Jozin
May 2009: Mystery carcass - Canary Islands
May 2009: Rochester mystery animals including sea monster
May 2009: Loch Ness monster vs the cast of 'Allo Allo'










February 2009

February 27th 2009 The long life of Nessie by Lindsay Selby
February 26th 2009 Carribean Monk Seal
February 25th 2009
New Zealand Giant Eels by Tony Lucas
February 25th 2009
Loch Ness Discovered DVD Review by Dr Karl Shuker
February 16th 2009
Legend of the Welsh Lakes by Richard Holland
February 15th 2009
Seeking mega-caecilians by Dr Karl Shuker
February 13th 2009
Where have all the Sea Serpents gone by Glen Vaudrey
February 12th 2009
Megalodon by Oll Lewis
February 10th 2009
Steller's Sea Cow by Glen Vaudrey
February 10th 2009
A possible explanation for the Medway River Monster?
February 10th 2009
More comments on British Great White Sharks
February 8th 2009
British Great White Sharks by Oll Lewis
February 7th 2009
New Loch Ness Monster sighting
February 6th 2009
Jellyfish Japes by Glen Vaudrey
February 4th 2009
The Father of all the turtles
February 3rd 2009
A closer look at Geordie Monsters by Mike Hallowell






JANUARY 2009







31st January 2009: Karl Shuker follows on from yesterday's article on the buru, and talks about lungfish
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31st January 2009: CFZ member John "Brojo" Wooldridge has a present for us all
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30th January 2009: We have a look in the cryptozoology archives for the story of what we believe might be a hitherto undiscovered giant lungfish

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30th January 2009: Why do whales commit suicide?
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30th January 2009: The peculiar tale of the drug baron's escaped pets. How hippos arrived in South America..
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30th January 2009: Cryptozoology in action On the track of unknown terrapins.
To compliment Glen's article (see below) we revisit a perennial mystery within the CFZ. What the hell is Cuthbert?
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30th January 2009: Guest blogger Glen Vaudrey tells some turtle tales

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29th January 2009: Richard Freeman concludes his trilogy of articles on Crocodile Cults
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29th January 2009: Colin Higgins: The tench: does it have mystick healing properties?

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28th January 2009: The second and final part of our look at Naturalised Fish of the World
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28th January 2009: Oll Lewis takes a look at the extinction of the flightless grebe of Guatamala
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27th January 2009: Crocodile Cults - part two
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27th January 2009: Naturalised fish of the world - part one

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27th January 2009: Glen Vaudrey on perception (both cultural and physical) and mystery animals
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26th January 2009: Richard Muirhead on the freshwater seahorses of a lake who's name has amused generations of
schoolboys. (Warning, contains a lengthy, and slightly touching, prologue about Jon's youth)
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26th January 2009: Karl Shuker waxes lyrical on the subject of musical molluscs -
yes, that's right: the seas are alive with the sound of shellfish
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26th January 2009: Dr Dan Holdsworth has a pop at answering some of the questions raised yesterday

by Oll Lewis about the mysterious undersea "Bloop"
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26th January 2009: It is stilletos as dawn. A bitchfight par excellence Sarah Palin is attacking beluga whales, and
Fleur Fulcher ain't having any of it. There's even a competition.

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26th January 2009: New to all this? Worried that your lack of cryptozoological knowledge will make you the laughing stock of your local pub? Never fear, help is at hand with our very own cryptozoological reading list
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25th January 2009: Richard Freeman with the first of three articles about Crocodile Cults
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25th January 2009: Check out our dummy page for the new CFZ Outreach project for schools.
All comments welcome
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25th January 2009: Oll Lewis goes in search of the source of a mystery noise which has been heard in the ocean depths. If it is the call of a new whale it could be from a cetacean far larger than anything currently known...

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24th January 2009: Corinna explains how - and why one of her favourite folk metal bands - Turisas -
are named after a notorious sea monster...
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24th January 2009: Peculiar new catfish poses more questions than answers
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23rd January 2009: Guest blogger Colin Higgins takes a look at the burbot.
A true British cryptozoological mystery
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23rd January 2009: Still on the aquatic theme - freshwater octopi. Could such a thing be?

WARNING: Includes video of girls in bikinis
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22nd January 2009: Mike Hallowell, card carrying Geordie (for those of you outside the UK it means he comes from a specific part of the North East of England) introduces himself to the cryptoblogs and gives us an introduction to the
cryptozoology of Tyneside and Northumberland

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22nd January 2009: Following on from the discussions about weird whales that have proliferated across the CFZ
bloggythings over the last few days, Dr Karl Shuker, weighs in with a description of some two tusked narwhals

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22nd January 2009: Oll Lewis on giant squids; a continuation of his ongoing guest blogger spots. But what exactly is a `Sea Monk`?
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21st January 2009: The delightful Fleur Fulcher goes in search of the ultimate lobster - with surreal results.....
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21st January 2009: "There she blows!" Following on from yesterday's story about an errant Right Whale near the Azores, we have two more dispatches from the Cetacean Nation. A roundup of news, including acounts of bravery and derring do by anti whaling protestors can be found here wheras a couple of picture led stories of more cryptozoological interest can be found here
20th January 2009: Exciting news about out of place whales Check it out.
19th January 2009: The Kraken is a mythologised version of the giant squid. We all know that. But, says CFZ ecologist Oll Lewis, this might be completely wrong find out more..
19th January 2009: Exciting news from off the coast of Australia. A remote controlled submarine has found an entire new world, and it was the CFZ girls who told us about it check it out..
19th January 2009: Richard Freeman looks at one of his favourite subjects: crocodiles. His
article about man-eating crocodiles in Borneo is here.
15th January 2009: Oll Lewis, the CFZ ecologist writes an engaging and intriguing account of strange funnel-web spiders that have turned up where they shouldn't be, and out of place whales.. Read on MacDuff
13th January 2009: Guest Blogger Max Blake gives us a taste of his talk at this August's Weird Weekend with a lavishly illustrated mini article on the surprising fact that quite a few unknown animals actually turn up in the pet trade. You want to know more?




12th January 2009: You thought it was all over? Not quite. There are still more things to read about the saga of the Croyde Beach carcass. Click HERE
10th January 2009: A few days ago, a mysterious carcass was washed up on Croyde Beach in North Devon. The papers claimed that it was the Beast of Exmoor. It wasn't. But what was it? Click HERE to find out.