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Wednesday 1 April 2009

March 2009

31st March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Has the shug monkey exited Rendlesham Forest, pursued by a bear?
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31st March: TERATOLOGY: An archive picture of a conjoined pike. True? Or photoshop bobbins?
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31st March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Some vintage cryptozoological clippings from the antipodes courtesy of Paul Cropper. What a smashing fellow he is.
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31st March: CFZtv: For the second time in two days CFZtv has paid its debt to society, or rather to the Warners Music Group. Thanks by the way to everyone, especially Steve Jones, who sent messages of support, and suggested work arounds
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31st March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The shug monkey returns?
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31st March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries - suicidal dogs and red hot toads
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31st March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Artificial life: Evolution simulator
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31st March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis presents us with the most ghastly puns, and Yesterday's News Today
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30th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Thylacine rock art and sightings.
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30th March: CFZ PEOPLE: Tony "Doc" Shiels art exhibition.
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30th March: CRYPTO-ART: High Fashion Cryptoclothing.
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30th March: CFZtv: Love Hurts - so we replaced it. I think this story is going to run and run...
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30th March: ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Karl Shuker on Ammut - Ancient Egypt's eater of hearts
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30th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Rediscovered fish species, including one thought to have been the deliberate victime of fishy ethnic cleansing
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30th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Following on from Richard's article of yesterday, here is killer crocodile video
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30th March: CFZ NEWS: The CFZ get busted for copyright infringements. It's a fair cop Guv'ner. You stitched me up like a kipper
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30th March: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today
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29th March: ZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman on man-eating crocodiles.
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29th March: TERATOLOGY: Albino deer spark a trip down memory lane.
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29th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mystery cats in Wales.
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29th March: FORTEAN: Why are people such self-deluding idiots? A story of a giant skeleton.
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29th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Great! Glen flies over the Great Glen, and writes about the experience.
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29th March: CFZ PEOPLE: Gothboy and Modboy meet and greet.
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29th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A pointlessly peculiar video of some carp with human faces sparks Jon into a sunday morning ramble
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29th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis talks about Bob Dylan and and Yesterday's News Today.
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28th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Dutch Zooform Phenomena
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28th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby on big birds and bigger bats
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28th March: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The fourth trenche of bird-related cuttings
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28th March: CFZ PEOPLE: What has the autobiography of a male stripper got to do with cryptozoology? What indeed?
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28th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A ghostly rabbit from Lancashire
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28th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A Midlands Owlman? Bostin' Our Kid
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28th March: SAD NEWS: Tony Dodd is dead
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28th March: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis talks about tea, and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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27th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: How does Muirhead do it? A northern Irish seaserpent from 1909
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27th March: FOLKLORE: Liz Clancy brings us the strange tale of the Rochdale Goblins
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27th March: ANIMAL WELFARE: More on the RSPCA debate from Syd Henley
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27th March: CFZ APPEAL: Has anyone got any fibreglass resin you can let us have?
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27th March: CFZ PEOPLE: If you see Syd... tell the bugger to phone me
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27th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A tale of two yellow bellies (by the way Corinna took the pictures - nice aren't they?)
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27th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries - a dangerous giant pike, and another odd whale
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27th March: CFZ errrr... PEOPLE: A sighting of a strange creature in the CFZ grounds
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27th March: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll brings us Yesterday's News Today (and no biscuits)
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26th March: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Odd coloured cormorants - Shag Times with Maxy!!!!
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26th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More from Alan F on that giant spider.
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26th March: ANIMAL WELFARE: As the RSPCA controversy grows, Jan Edwards explains why she no longer works for them.
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26th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon on giant eels.
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26th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Finally the new CFZ movie has been released. The feature-length "Mountains of Mystery" covers last year's exciting Russia expedition in search of the almasty.
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26th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A snow leopard is apparently on the loose in Poland, but it is behaving rather oddly. Warning: Video contains foreigners amusingly overdubbed by people with British regional accents.
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26th March: ANIMAL WELFARE: Disturbing allegations have been made against the RSPCA. We don't believe them personally, but considering the shift in the zeitgeist of the RSPCA over the past few years, we think that this should be checked out.
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26th March: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis takes a farcical biscuit request, and gives us Yesterday's News Today.
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25th March: FORTEAN: Well it certainly ain't a video of an angel, but 1.5 million people have seen it. Why?
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25th March: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The third trenche of bird-related cutting is now available for download
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25th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An Irish mystery cat cutting from "Doc"
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25th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Let's take a look at the super eel
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25th March: FORTEAN: A new web-based fortean serial (I cannot think of a better way to put it) has provoked Jon into some musings on the nature of reality..
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25th March: FORTEAN: The Great Beast wrote a book called `White Stains`, but how about `Brown Stains`? Following on from a January bloggopost, we look at a peculiar story from Louisiana.
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25th March: TERATOLOGY: You may remember that some time ago I posted an image of a white tailed deer with peculiar antlers. This has provoked quite a lot of debate....
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25th March: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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24th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An oarfish in Co. Durham.
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24th March: CFZ PEOPLE: Proof (as if any proof were needed) that Richard Freeman is a strange little fellow
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24th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries - an enormous (and extremely expensive) basking shark, and three white hares
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24th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Oll Lewis on Piltdown Man and other fakes that people once thought were the `real deal`
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24th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Darren and Michael (don't they sound like that duo who had that dreadful hit record about matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs?) meet up at the Weird Weekend last year and have now completed a major academic paper about sea monsters.
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24th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay was at the BCIB Conference...
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24th March: TERATOLOGY: A winged cat (in fact, if we are to be pedantic, two winged cats)
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24th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today and a particularly feeble pun about the macropodidae
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23rd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Jenny Haniver from the CFZ Archives
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23rd March: CRYPTO-ARTS: What is the problem that those jolly nice folks at Donside Pictures have with a certain large species of South American river turtle?
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23rd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A strange carcass on a beach in Oman
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23rd March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The Monkey Man of India, Springheeled Jack, and other urban terrors...
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23rd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Alan Friswell on the giant spider of the sunday papers (should that be the `Titanic Tabloid Tarantula`?)
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23rd March: MYTHOLOGY: Karl Shuker gives us an exclusive extract from his unpublished book about unicorns
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23rd March: CFZ PEOPLE: New online interview with Richard Freeman
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23rd March: Someone uses Jon's book
The Monster of the Mere
as an inspirational (and non PC) polemic about dealing with mental health problems...Golly!
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23rd March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis talks nonsense and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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22nd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Naomi and Ritchie are on the trail of the blue dogs of Texas Click here for further details...
22nd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tony Lucas in `The Moa Feather Mystery`
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22nd March: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Max Blake continues his investigations of undescribed creatures turning up in the pet trade with a string of recently discovered cockroaches which are presently in his bedroom...
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22nd March: CFZ PEOPLE: Doesn't Richard Freeman realise that April Fool's Day is a week or more away?
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22nd March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: The BBC invent a new newt - Freeman is incensed
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22nd March: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon's surrogate mother is ill
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22nd March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today
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22nd March: CFZ PEOPLE: As this year's Weird Weekend approaches, Mike Hallowell looks back at the first event nine years ago (final part)
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21st March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The boy Freeman takes an in-depth look at a Japanese monster that may still thrive - the flat snake
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21st March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Following yesterday's post on the greater ivorybilled woodpecker, we take a look at another supposedly extinct member of Woody's tribe
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21st March: CFZ: How to make friends and influence people - Tim Matthews discusses publishing and other things
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21st March: ARCHIVING PROJECT: The third trenche of bird related downloads are now ready, and Jon apologises to would-be indexers who have written to him during the last ten days whilst he has been laid low with a lurgy-from-hell
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21st March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The thylacine - did these feet ever walk amongst England's Green and Pleasant Land
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20th March: CFZ PEOPLE: As this year's Weird Weekend approaches, Mike Hallowell looks back at the first event nine years ago (part four of five)
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21st March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Max Blake backtracks with the Somerset big cat
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21st March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today
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20th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Grey Whales in the Atlantic Ocean
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20th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The hunt for the ivory-billed woodpecker gets even more complex..
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20th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Famous film producer dude opens his archives (It's not quite as exciting as it sounds, but still pretty damn goos)
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20th March: POINTLESS AND PECULIAR: Own up! Who is it who keeps on posting nonsense to Karl Shuker's blog?
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20th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Totally out of the blue the Curator of Blackburn Museum sends us some strange stories
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20th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A pink elephant gives rise to musings about a purple rail, and an excuse to play a song by Scott Walker. You can tell it is friday
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20th March: CFZ PEOPLE: As this year's Weird Weekend approaches, Mike Hallowell looks back at the first event nine years ago (part three of five)
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20th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today
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19th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey brings us a little-known Icelandic cryptid: a bird that lives in the hot springs
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19th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Myteries - a giant whale, and an entombed toad Click here for further details...
19th March: CFZ: Bloggo conundrum - should Jon continuing posting bloggo details to Usenet? Some people love it, but then again some people do not
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19th March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Max Blake with the answers to his snow tracks compy
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19th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Jon and Richard on New Zealand TV
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19th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Mystery Animals of Kent - Neil Arnold's remarkable new book is now out
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19th March: CFZ PEOPLE: As this year's Weird Weekend approaches, Mike Hallowell looks back at the first event nine years ago (part two of five)
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19th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis wibbles on about the Electric Light Orchestra and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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18th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: New recruit Liz Clancy goes in search of manbeasts in a place called
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18th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Our belated coverage of the 2008 Unconvention continues with our very own Richard Freeman discussing his role as Russia's greatest Love Machine
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18th March: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Nick Wadham fuses frogspawn with poetry. It sounds avant garde, but it ain't
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18th March: ECOLOGY: Switch yer lights out for the WWF..
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18th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman takes a look at nondescripts and feejee mermaids
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18th March: TERATOLOGY/AMATEUR NATURALIST: What happens when a hedgehog ain't got no spines?
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18th March: CFZ PEOPLE: As this year's Weird Weekend approaches, Mike Hallowell looks back at the first event nine years ago (part one of five)
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18th March: CFZ PEOPLE: An old git talks - Jon says thank you
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18th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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17th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Alan Friswell recounts some major solifugid strangeness (warning, entails some gruesomeness and a hand gun)
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17th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead is back with two more marine mysteries from the archives of a North of England newspaper
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17th March: ANIMAL WELFARE: Beth Tyler-King takes us behind the scenes at Hartland Wildlife Rescue
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17th March: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon says thank you, and takes comfort in the kindness of strangers Click here for further details...
17th March: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna stands by her man and puts the boot in. I am, however, speaking metaphorically here, because if she tried to do that IRL she would end up kicking her man and falling over, which is not the effect that I am trying to describe
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17th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland unearths giant eel stories from British Columbia
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17th March: CRYPTOPSYCHOLOGY: Lindsay Selby takes a look at eyewitness testimony
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17th March: THE CHRONICLES OF BIGGLES: That idiotic bloody dog has dopne it again, as Corinna will tell you
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17th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker wants your help...
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17th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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16th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More details of the Red Sea seaserpent
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16th March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Cute baby moose story. For some reason cute animal pics are being sent in thick and fast...
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16th March: TERATOLOGY: Fleur Fulcher investigates pink grasshoppers. And wonders if she could accesorise in Mauve
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16th March: CFZ MEDIA: Tim Matthews asks where have all the stories gone?
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16th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at various aspects of the devil fish
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16th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold spins a strange tale of goldfish, eels, and Frank Buckland. Needs to be read to be believed, and has the best bloggo-title for ages
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16th March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: This is the most ridiculously cute picture we have seen for ages. All together: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww (and what is Dr Daz doing with some plastic pelicans?)
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15th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: As the furore over the North Devon mystery footprints begins to die down, Richard Freeman looks at other mysterious cloven footprints from historical fortean accounts
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15th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Naomi, bless her, has a cold, but she has been hunting out more information on these damned elusive blue dogs.
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15th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: It's sunday afternoon, so our Graham is wandering through the blogosphere, notebook in hand, with a shifty look on his face....
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15th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A rare specimen of an English wildcat
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15th March: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The first lot of bird clippings are online
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15th March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: It's all change at the Tortoise Trust
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15th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Bloody Hell! The footprint story has made it to the CFZ. Jon bursts into rhyme as a result (well, if you can't beat 'em...)
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15th March: CFZ PEOPLE: It is sunday, so for some reason the good people of the CFZ have burst into rhyme (BADLY)
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15th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Yesterday's News Today
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14th March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: From our archives - a specimen of the extinct large Copper butterfly
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14th March: CFZ IN THE NEWS: Once again we have appeared in the newspapers, in a clipping sent us by Gail-Nina Anderson. However, we have no memory of the event occurring. Fortean indeed.
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14th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A very young (and quite thin) looking Jon Downes from 1995, talking about the black dogs of Buckfastleigh to Ruth Langsford....
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14th March: CFZ errr SORT OF PEOPLE: 65% of bloggo readers are from outside the UK, and even the UK readers under the age of 40 are unlikely to have heard of him. So why did we name the CFZ doggie mk3 `Biggles`? Graham and Corinna explain..
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14th March: CFZ PEOPLE: "We've got some more news for you sunshine, Jon isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel...".
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14th March: FORTEANA: Our belated coverage of the 2008 Unconvention continues with the entire talk by Dr Mike Dash..
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14th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Gwilym James talks about Giant Eels..
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14th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Skull Stories - how our ancestors interpreted the fossil and subfossil remains of megafauna..
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14th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us all Yesterday's News Today..
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13th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman remembers Potter's Museum of Curiosities
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13th March: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: After a disgusting amount of technical screw-ups issue 7 is finally on sale
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13th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: We have a place in The Sun Ain't you proud of us?
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13th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: This bloody Devil's Footprint malarkey is getting out of hand...
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13th March: CFZ PEOPLE: Shock! CFZ Director doesn't know what day of the week it is! Thank goodness for Matthew Osborne
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13th March: CFZ PEOPLE: David "Geordie Dave" Curtis apologises for the meerkat that never was
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13th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A little known lake monster from New Zealand
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13th March: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Max Blake takes a walk and some photographs in a winter wonderland. He then sets them up for a feindishly clever quiz. Wayhay!
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13th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today
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12th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Alan Friswell presents an intriguing tale of David Essex, his sister's boyfriend, and a sea serpent in the Red Sea
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12th March: THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO WOOLSERY: It must be true - it's in the papers
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12th March: TERATOLOGY: Yesterday Richard Muirhead asked what happened to all the fortean museum exhibits of yesteryear. Now we haven't found him the albino swallow that he was writing about, but we have given him a selection of photographs from the CFZ archives of albino birds from the vaults of the Kendal Museum
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12th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The silly ad hoc competition that we ran this morning has got a winner already! One of our readers is much better than Richard and me with limericks..
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12th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland examines a classic Welsh incident when some geezer from Wrexham was attacked by a giant snake. Hmmmmmmm. I have wasted about half an hour this morning trying to write a limerick that begins "There once was a carter from Wrexham". A prize to the first person who manages it. However, silliness aside this is a fascinating archive case...
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12th March: ZOOLOGY: Max rants about possums - now there's a line you don't hear every day
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12th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis holds forth about biscuits and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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11th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries are back, 'cos while the builders are renovating his house, he has been down to Macclesfield Library in search of strange stories..
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11th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The newspapers are still fascinated in this blummin' Devil's footprints saga. Do they know something that we don't?
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11th March: FORTEANA: Join the world's only gothic cryptozoologist as he writes about vampire contagion in the modern age..
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11th March: CFZ OUTREACH: Phase one of our bunch of complicated new fish projects is underway. In order to launch the first of our static displays, we have to move fish from the kitchen into the conservatory, and from the conservatory into the sitting room. It's all very complicated, but the fish are pretty...
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11th March: CFZARCHIVING PROJECT: More downloads are available, and a heads-up that the archives dealing with our feathered friends will be available soon
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11th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: His best entry for a while: Oll Lewis brings you yesterday's news today
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10th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Suzi Marsh is in the Western Ghats of India chasing mystery cats. She hasn't fund the pogeyam, but she has come up with something else entirely...
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10th March: TERATOLOGY: You guys are really good! So I will thank you with a picture of a pair of conjoined calves. Eeeeeeew.
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10th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Paul Screeton tells us ther peculiar tale of the Banffshire earth hounds
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10th March: FORTEAN: Jon explains that whilst he is fascinated with the paranormal, he doesn't like the term, and shuns all the nonsense that goes with it.
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10th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The peculiar tale of the Geordie lizardman
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10th March: TERATOLOGY: The strangest pub I have ever visited. But what was its name???
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10th March: CFZ PHILOSOPHY: Colin Higgins comes to the aid of the party. Right On Brother (say it like it is)
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10th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: With the crappiest vampire-related puns I have ever read, Oll shuffles around the house in his dressing-gown and brings us yesterday's news today
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9th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The story of these blasted footprints takes a new, and slightly disturbing, twist...
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9th March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Peculiar white flies. What can they be?
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9th March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Photography and the amateur naturalist. Max holds forth in an expert manner, and implies that Jon is in his dotage...
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9th March: CFZ PEOPLE: Interesting developments at Donside Films
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9th March: ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Karl Shuker takes a look at the symbolism of the cat.
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9th March: INVESTIGATION: Neil goes in search of the Rochester Rabbit Ripper (nasty case, nice bit of alliteration)
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9th March: ANIMAL WELFARE: Beth Tyler-King tells us more stories of life with Millie the Fox
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9th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis steals a clasic Biffoism (shame on him) and brings us yesterday's news today
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8th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman, who will be returning to the fold on the morrow, takes a look at the world's worst Loch Ness Monster documentary..
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8th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on the Co. Durham pine martens
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8th March: CFZ: Corinna gives the full story of Biggles, and his injury, and reassures his many fans that he is on the mend..
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8th March: ZOOLOGY: Graham Inglis moseys about in the blogosphere
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8th March: TERATOLOGY: A very peculiar white tailed deer. Does anyone know what could possibly have caused this?
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8th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Nigel (by complete happenstance) decided to re-examine the 1855 Devil's footprints case, the same week that the new footprints appeared in the village..
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8th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tony Lucas delivers the second trenche of archive press cuttings from New Zealand
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8th March: CFZ NEWS: Oll talks nonsense about sheep and brings you yesterday's news today Click here for further details...
7th March: TERATOLOGY: A real jackalope?
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7th March: ZOOLOGY: Jon has dem ol' Darwinist blues again Mama. Where will it all end?
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7th March: CFZ: Our new pro Bravenet account has revealed some unusual data
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7th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The saga of what happened the night that The Devil went down to Woolsery continues, with an exchange of letters from our good friend Jan Edwards
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7th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oll Lewis takes a look at a little known Welsh cryptid, and its links to a well-known doggy legend
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7th March: CFZ: Corinna says goodbye to Ichabod Grimm
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7th March: CFZ NEWS: Oll Lewis makes a `pig` of himself with his puns today, as he brings us Yesterday's News Today
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6th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The saga of what happenned the night that The Devil went down to Woolsery continues. This is getting monumentally peculiar. Various people have sent us their opinions on who the perpetrator(s) of the mysterious footprints which turned up in a garden on the outskirts of the village, and no two people have the same interpretation. Just two of the pundits who have expressed their (perfectly valid) ideas are:
Dave McMann
Paul Vella
6th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Jan Edwards muses on the subject of mankind's closest relatives
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6th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Jon Downes muses on the subject of his personal involvement with the biggest game birds in Britain, and thinks that there ain't half been some clever bustards
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6th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Graham gives his side of the mysterious footprints story, and he was - after all - the person on the ground who first saw them...
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6th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Dan Holdsworth gets involved in the saga of what happened the night the Devil went down to Woolsery. (Note that Syd thinks it is a fox, and Neil a rabbit. They can't all be right! Unless of course He takes on many forms hahahahahaha (demonic laugh)
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6th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: With probably the worst pun we have ever printed, here is the story of the giant red fish of Lake Hanas
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6th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest trenche of downloads from the CFZ Archiving Project
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6th March: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis eats biscuits, proselytises for his favourites, and brings us yesterday's news today
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6th March: CFZ: Thanks to Greg for sorting out a non-deliberate mistake
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5th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: This is NOT a joke, I promise, but last night something left a trail of strange footprints in the snow, across a garden of one of the houses on the outskirts of the village. They are somewhat reminiscent of those reported from February 1855 when something left a trail of footprints across much of South Devon. On that occasion it was claimed that The Devil had visited Devonshire. We are not claiming anything of the sort! (And we don't think Satan had anything to do with the 1855 incidents either). This story is going to run over the next few days, so watch this space.
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Video Report
5th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Could there be a mystery mustelid in Kent? Neil Arnold thinks that it is certainly a possibility
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5th March: TERATOLOGY: More on the pink dolphin
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5th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland tells us about wildcats in Wales, and introduces us to a carvivorous squirrel
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5th March: CFZ: Only a fortnight ago Jon said that spring was here. Well that might not actually be the case.
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5th March: TERATOLOGY: A pink bottlenosed dolphin and some semi literate idiocy
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5th March: CRYPTOZOLOGY: Jon talks about the chupacabra at Uncon
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5th March: CFZ NEWS: Oll Lewis brings you his daily rubbish pun, and yesterday's news today
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4th March: POLITICS: President Obama overturns the lunatic changes that George Bush made to the endangered species legislation. Good on 'im we say!
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4th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The divine Miss F muses on extinctions, and gets sweetly emotional. Dear girl. The Jon spoils it with a punk rock pun
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4th March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Oll Lewis writes about gwibers with the most splendid pun of all time..
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4th March: STRANGELY STRANGE: Just what we all needed. Another excuse to waste all of our time..
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4th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Allendale Wolf. Since we showed you a postcard about it yesterday, a number of readers wanted to know more...
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4th March: ZOOLOGY: We have just discovered an absolutely amazing resource for researchers; The Biodiversity Heritage Library
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4th March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest trenche of scans from the CFZ Archiving Project
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4th March: CFZ NEWS: Yesterday's News Today brought you by Wales's Mr Entertainment...
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3rd March: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST GETS ANGRY: A national disgrace. Charles Rothschild's butterfly collection is for sale
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3rd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The CFZ museum buys a teensy bit of cryptozoological history and all thanks to Theo!
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3rd March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Gavin Lloyd Wilson goes to the Oxford Museum of Natural History...
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3rd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Following our discussion of the role of the amateur naturalist within cryptozoology this morning, our friend Heather Mikhail sent us this..
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3rd March: MUSIC: CFZtv presents the Kip of the Serenes concert by Dr Strangely Strange part two
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3rd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: What is the role of the amateur naturalist within cryptozoology?
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3rd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries this week include a nest of 600 snakes and a mysterious fish weighing over 300lb
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3rd March: OBITUARY: Professor Mike Majerus, President of the AES, and champion of Evolutionary Biology is dead..
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3rd March: OBITUARY: Professor Mike Majerus, President of the AES, and champion of Evolutionary Biology is dead..
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3rd March: CFZ NEWS: Oll Lewis is stuck for a cetacean pun. That is surprising. Knowing him you would have thought he'd been able to cachalot. However, he does bring you yesterday's news today, a roundup of the last 24 hours on the CFZ News Server...
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2nd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Episode 18 of CRYPTOZOOLOGY: On The Track is now online..
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2nd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: New documentary about the hunt for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker
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2nd March: ZOOLOGY: What killed this unfortunate pussycat?
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2nd March: CFZ: Have you ever fancied being an indexer? Come and join the bloggo team.
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2nd March: FORTEANA: Karl Shuker looks at dogs in your dreams
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2nd March: CFZ PRESS: Our top ten best sellers for the last month
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2nd March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Colin Higgins is back, and this time he's serious. Serious about sturgeon that is..
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2nd March: CFZ NEWS: Oll Lewis stands back, and looks aghast at the sheer volume of postings that dear Gavin has done on his sunday off. Oll manfully resists the temptation to be smutty, and brings you yesterday's news today.
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1st March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern on giant snakes in Cannock Chase
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1st March: ZOOLOGY: The answer to Karl Shuker's question about frilled lizards...
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1st March: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Something odd from our archives. Furthermore, something very reminiscent of the well-known case of the Hopkinsville Goblins of Kentucky
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1st March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: What the bloody hell is this?
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1st March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Frog Sex Variations (No it ain't a song by Frank Zappa) The ex Vicar of the South Pole (honest) takes photographs of different coloured frogs...
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1st March: AMATEUR NATURALIST: The Italian Job; Jan Edwards is back from her holidays in Italy with a stirring story about a mystery creature
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1st March: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: What is the function of the cryptozoologist as we know him and her? Lindsay Selby (bless her) send us a link to an interview which gives us food fot thought
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1st March: CFZ NEWS: Oll Lewis looks at the latest developments over on the CFZ News Server
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