April 2009

30th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries - octopus invasions along the south coast of England.
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30th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries - octopus invasions along the south coast of England.
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30th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Our third and final visit this week to the new CFZ Australia video channel - tonight: maiunland quolls.
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30th April: CFZ ANIMAL RESCUE: The first pictures of the new CFZ crow, rescued in Northam by our dear friend Beth Tyler-King.
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30th April: SHAMELESS PLUG: Richard Holland with news of what's in this month's Paranormal magazine.
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30th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest edition of our monthly webTV show is up.
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30th April: FORTEAN: A century or so after the event, new evidence has emerged in Britain's most famous horse ripping case. Nicky Redfern reports..
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30th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman is exploring the classics - strange tales from Herodotus
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30th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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29th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Our second visit to the CFZ Australia film site
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29th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The second trenche of folklore archives
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29th April: TERATOLOGY: What is it with the CFZ girls? Following Fleur's cute mutant pussycat a few days ago, Naomi has come up with the unbelievably Disneyesque herd of albino deer in Wisconsin
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29th April: OBITUARY: Colin Higgins remembers John Michell
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29th April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Following the piece on Japanese Bugfights the other day, Fleur discusses stag beetles to her heart's content
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29th April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Jon Downes with a fowl even groovier than the one we saw last week. Chickens are soooooooo outstanding!
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29th April: CONSERVATION: Richard has found a way to help the polar bear
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29th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis talks complete nonsense in a highly entertaining fashion, and eventually gets round to bringing us Yesterday's News Today
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28th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The final part of Richard Freeman's investigations into a 1742 book on snakes by Charles Owen
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28th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We celebrate the launch of the new CFZ Australia YouTube channel with the first of three video excerpts - tonight, the peculiar beast of Radium Hill
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28th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Welcome to our two new indexers
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28th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tim Matthews gets cross
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28th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Block Ness Monster (No this is not a typo, repeat this is not a typo)
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28th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Sharon talks about ivorybills...
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28th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale and Jon agree on the "Water Blackfella" pic. It ain't photoshopped..
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28th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Howick Falls monster of South Africa unmasked
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold traces the history of the infamous "Water Blackfella" picture, and discovers a weird web including Playboy Bunnies, and spurious adventurers
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27th April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: The sad decline of British butterflies
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dr Karl Shuker with the first part of a mammoth article on the mystery animals of South America
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Yesterday's "Water Blackfella" pictures explained - It was Glen Vaudrey crawling out of a pond! Well, not quite, but it was his hair
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27th April: POLITICS: Timmy M has environmental concerns
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27th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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26th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More "Water Blackfella" pictures. Watch this space...
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26th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard begins an exciting story of strange beasts in Ecuador with the lines: "Whilst waiting for the train from Exeter to Barnstaple yesterday I happened to sit down next to an exceptionally beautiful girl." Happened to? Richard, dear boy I have known you for fifteen years, I am sure it took a complicated amount of social engineering for you to manouvre yourself next to the poor young thing...
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26th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Jon is on talk radio this evening.
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26th April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Fleur goes all pastoral on us, and bemoans the fate of Britain's cider orchards
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26th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A CFZ Exclusive - we always said that the recent picture of a tiny humanoid from Quatar was nonsense, but now we can prove it! However, when the cryptozoological community accepts drivel like this, it does us no favours whatseoever
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26th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A CFZ Exclusive - we always said that the recent picture of a tiny humanoid from Quatar was nonsense, but now we can prove it! However, when the cryptozoological community accepts drivel like this, it does us non favours whatseoever
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26th April: MIKE HALLOWELL'S GEORDIE MONSTERS: A whale of a tale involving two avaricious farmers, a king and a dead whale
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26th April: ANIMAL WELFARE: Japanese bugfights - a disgusting indightment of today's culture. When PETA reduce real animals to cartoon characters, should we be surprised when kids expect them to fight like Pokemon?
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26th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings Yesterday's News Today
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25th April: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold on London's monsters
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25th April: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dr Dan on some lesser known cryptids
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25th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The first trenche of folklore archives are ready
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25th April: TERATOLOGY: Only Fleur Fulcher could make teratology cute
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25th April: FORTEAN: In which we celebrate one of the most prominent new trends in fortean zoology: extra noses
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25th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Tony Lucas has done it again! The third trenche of New Zealand cuttings are online
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25th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest mystery hominid photographs leave us seriously underwhelmed. This is probably also where we should say that the use of `Lord of the Rings` imagery (the Indonesian `hobbits` and the Quatari `gollum`) is getting a little tedious...
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25th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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24th April: CFZ PEOPLE: John Michell, a dear friend, and doyen of British Forteana for many years is dead
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24th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Moa hunter specimens for sale. How the hell does Lucas do it?
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24th April: CFZ: Biggles in The Great Escape
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24th April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Didn't we have a luv-er-ly time, the day we went to Redditch. Well, yes we did, says Maxy
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24th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We owe Naomi an apology - she sent us this updated account of her visit to Devin MacAnally some time ago and we completely forgot all about it!
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24th April: CFZ STUFF: We had a mixed response to yesterday's St George postings, so here is absolute proof that England is best!
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24th April: CFZ STUFF: We had a mixed response to yesterday's St George postings, so here is absolute proof that England is best!
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24th April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: New recruit Emma Biddle on puffer fish, delightful vandals of the fishy world.
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24th April: FORTEAN: The expression "like a bull in a china shop" is one of the best known similes for clumsiness in the English Language. But what would happen if a bull ran into an emporium selling crockery? Sadly this video is not of a china shop but it is massively entertaining.
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24th April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: The ongoing saga ofthe CFZ ramerizi has opened up several cans of very wiggly worms.
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24th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: As always, Oll Lewis brings you Yesterday's News Today complete with stupid jokes
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23rd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another strange bird in London.
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23rd April: CFZ VISITOR CENTRE: As Tim would no doubt say, we have to strengthen the ramparts to avoid damage from an enemy from within (i.e Biggles is trying to make a bid for freedom).
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23rd April: ANIMAL WELFARE: Richard Freeman on Canadian seal slaughter.
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23rd April: FORTEAN: Clare Clancy asks what will happen to cryptozoology and fortean stories in local newspapers when thay stop being local newspapers.
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23rd April: CFZ: Ross B-P on what happened last weekend.
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23rd April: FORTEAN: St George's Day - part one. You have to love the girl: Liz Clancy feels sorry for St George after reading Richard Freeman's view of events, (see below) and posts a more sympathetic view of him (St George I mean, not Freeman).
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23rd April: FORTEAN: St George's Day - part two. Richard Freeman has a look at the truth behind the legend of St George.
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23rd April: FORTEAN: St George's Day - the video. The first attempt by Richard Freeman to unwravel who St George actually was
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23rd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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22nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Strange tales from the Garden of England that didn't make Neil Arnold's book.
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22nd April: CFZ LIBRARY: Work begins at last on the CFZ library cataloguing project. Richard Muirhead and Oll Lewis are hard at it in the shed...
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22nd April: CFZ PEOPLE: Fleur's mum saves our ramerizi
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22nd April: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Do they have pheasants in North America?
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22nd April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Nigel Wright has more news on the Exmouth Mermaid saga
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22nd April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: The most amazing chickens in the world. Hoorah!!.
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22nd April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Jon is on the horns of a dilemma.
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22nd April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis dredges the depths for bad puns, and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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21st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland on two obscure Welsh dragons
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21st April: CFZ: Richard Freeman goes on TV. (We have been promised a tape of it which might well find itself bootlegged and shoved up on YouTube for us all to enjoy
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21st April: BELIEF SYSTEMS: If owners get to look like their pets, then do people get to take on the characteristics of their totem animals?
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21st April: CRYPTO MUSIC: Shane Lea with more crypto songs - this is beginning to take on a life of its own.
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21st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oll Lewis takes a look at the `Surgeon's Photograph` of the Loch Ness Monster, first published on this date in 1934.
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21st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Ancient Australian cave painting of thylacoleo
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21st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: On this auspicious anniversary Dr Chris has a gander at some other little known creatures.
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21st April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker with some lesser known mystery animals of the UK
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20th April: FORTEAN: A taxidermy chimera on sale in New Zealand
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tony Lucas with the peculiar tale of a New Zealand mystery cat - the Lindis Lion. Easy as ABC
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20th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Our commiserations go out to Lindsay Selby, on the loss of her father. Bless you hun!
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Big Three - a new series on the bloggo
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20th April: FORTEAN: A two-headed mermaid from Warrington
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More unidentified fishes of YouTube from Max Blake
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20th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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19th April: CRYPTO: Glen Vaudrey looks at Mystery Animals on Icelandic Stamps
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19th April: CRYPTO: Richard Freeman continues his look at Snakes and Freaky Fauna - Part Four: Sea Serpents
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19th April: CRYPTO: THE UNIDENTIFIED FISHES OF YOUTUBE, PART TWO: An Unidentified Submarine Object - Max Blake
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19th April: CRYPTO FROM THE ARCHIVES: Another crypto memory from Hong Kong in the early 1960s
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19th April: CRYPTO: Guest Blogger David Marshall looks at L-numbered Catfish
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19th April: CRYPTO: The BHM vid!
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19th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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18th April: CFZtv: Production starts on our new movie. Jon's first UK based directing for ten years. Does leading lady Emily Taylor (15) know what she is letting herself in for?
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18th April: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: A frozen woodpigeon (nope, not from Sainsbury's) and "golden maids". What on earth are they?
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18th April: CFZ PICTURE LIBRARY: A strange picture newly unearthed from the CFZ archives. This is a picture of what happens when a bird (in this case an owl) smashes into a window pane. Interestingly I believe it is particles of lanolin that make the image...
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18th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: A collection of scans of newspaper reports about the Cornish Owlman, Doc Shiels, Morgawr and other stuff from the mysterious wastes of Falmouth Bay...
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18th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Max Blake brings us the first of a three part series on "The Unidentified Fishes of YouTube"
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18th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A mystery animal in Florida. We have no idea what it is. Have you?
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18th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Following on from yesterday's photograph of the last ever Cornish pine marten, here - from the same museum - is (as far as we know) the last Cornish red squirrel
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18th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: It is getting harder and harder to categorise these bloggo stories - this one, for example, concerns a `known` animal about which we know hardly anything. Max Blake takes a look at the kouprey. By the way we have just confirmed that Dr Darren Naish will be at the Weird Weekend. Just having him, Max, and Michael Woodley under the same roof, let alone a roof of a building that serves beer, practically guarantees that there will be some amusing taxonomic related tomfoolery going on.
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17th April: CFZ ANIMALS: We are pleased to announce that we have managed to breed our Cuban yellow bellied girardinus. Max has managed to take the first photographs of them, which we display proudly for your delectation.
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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: There are claims that the pink headed duck has been rediscovered after about 70 years. We are cautiously impressed, and offer even more cautious congratulations.
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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: For the first time in colour, the last Cornish pine marten...
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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Very peculiar news - an Asian palm civet on Bodmin Moor. Thankls to Dr Daz for the info
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17th April: TERATOLOGY: A two-faced lamb
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17th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The last of the bird-related clippings. Next stop: Folklore
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17th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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16th April: FORTEAN: Alan F on the great Highgate Vampire Cover-Up
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16th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Nigel Wright on the Exmouth Mermaid
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16th April: FORTEAN: Naomi's first ghost hunt
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16th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Tim Matthews? Politics? No never!
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16th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A new species of fish provokes a rant about bony plates and progressive rock music
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16th April: CFZ PEOPLE: A blast from Jon's past - poisonous sea creatures in Hong Kong (warning: contains the only photographs that you are likely to see of Jon looking cute)
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16th April: CONSERVATION: Particularly for our transatlantic readers, this is your chance to help keep wolves protected
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16th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis muses on biscuits, and brings us Yesterday's News Today
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15th April: CFZ PEOPLE: From the Archives - Jon and Graham in the Mexico desert
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15th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oll Lewis takes a look at the water horse - and guess what? There is another dreadful pun...
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15th April: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Graham crruises the blogosphere looking for action. Wayhay!
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15th April: FORTEAN: John Keel is seriously ill
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15th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman on a ridiculously tiny froggie that has just been discovered in Paddington Bear country
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15th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: American TV News items on Apache Bigfoot. Warning: They include Tom Biscardi, so does this mean that they should be treated even more cum grano salis than ever?
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15th April: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Max Blake in an adventure with water scorpions
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15th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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14th April: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: More archive curiosities from the archives of the Macclesfield Courier including a white starling and a peculiar cure for snakebite..
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14th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Paul McCartney and Spotify give us an amusing but quite telling object lesson in humility
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14th April: CFZ OUTREACH: Guess what me, Max and Matthew (and Rossi) are doing next weekend? (Warning: Includes fish)
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14th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The eighth (and penultimate) batch of avian clippings
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14th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold asks "what happens to the bodies?"
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14th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The saga of the "Water Blackfella" photograph rumbles on. I am thinking of offering a small prize to the next person who gets that picture into the national or international press to illustrate another spurious tale..
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14th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Amazing discovery of new population of orang utans. But why don't cryptozoologists make these discoveries? asks Tim Matthews
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14th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today (and a truly horrid brace of puns)
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13th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The most keenly awaited article for yonks - Karl Shuker's second look at the mini hominids of North American cryptozoology. Wayhay!
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13th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A new book on Australian mystery animals which sounds really good!
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13th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Two blogs from Corinna: a happy one and an angry and bitter one. We post them both because as the CFZ is funded by you guys, you have the right to know what is happening in our lives
13th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon rants (see above comment). Just remember us in your prayers this week - we certainly need them.
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13th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A TV Show that Richard and Jon did years ago about the mysterious golden frogs of the Devon village of Bovey Tracey is now online. Golly they look young.
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13th April: TERATOLOGY: It gets increasingly difficult to categorise some of these stories. Is this `teratology`, `amateur naturalist`, or just `zoology`. It is a story about pelicans with peculiar bulges on top of their beaks.
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13th April: FORTEAN: Ten years ago Jon and Nigel Wright wrote a book called `The Rising of the Moon` in which they were looking for a unified field theory of everything. Nigel is still looking.
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13th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: As always it is Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The discussion over the origins of the photograph that has most recently been touted as a "Water Blackfella" continues. Now Dale Drinnon and Neil Arnold have both got involved. We all agree that it is a fake. But who made it and why?
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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A follow-up story on Max's yellow trout. This is another story that I have a hunch will be worth watching
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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman's lecture from this year's Microcon
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12th April: PECULIAR PICNICS: My darling Corinna talks about cakes and pop, which are a subject close to my heart..
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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: I was most disappointed with your reaction to the bigfoot video that I posted yesterday. I hope that you will treat today's video (which is pretty damn conclusive) with more sensitivity. Warning: Contains a bit of swearing
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12th April: AMATEUR NATURALIST: It is very difficult to categorise all these stories, because this one has hints of cryptozoology as well. However, the gist of the tale is that Max Blake went to visit a chav infested village, and saw some peculiar fishies that he was unable to identify
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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: "Water Blackfella" uncovered
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12th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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11th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: As we pointed out earlier today, a new video clip, allegedly of bigfoot is doing the rounds, but nobody seems to know anything much about it. Dan Holdsworth, however, has his doubts
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11th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Nigel Wright has a portal to Hell in the corner of his living room. We are SO proud...
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11th April: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold takes a look at the Highgate Vampire
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11th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Colin Higgins goes in search of cryptic whitefish
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11th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A new video clip, allegedly of bigfoot is doing the rounds, but nobody seems to know anything much about it.
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11th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Extinct avian megafauna in Hampshire (or is it Surrey?) Surely not. But we have photos and a competition
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11th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The seventh trenche of bird-related archives are now ready to download
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11th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today
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10th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold on the monster of Clapham Woods
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10th April: WEIRD ZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman on the world's ugliest dogs
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10th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More black cougar reports from North America - Oregon this time
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10th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Max Blake makes Jon wince. And it's all about Loch Ness. Why?
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10th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: OK it is a hoax, but the recent report of a semi-aquatic BHM from the Australian outback, has opened up both linguistic and cryptozoological cans of worms.
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10th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY MEDIA: Following yesterday's interview with Nick Walters, here is his lecture from this year's Exeter University Science Fiction society convention
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10th April: CFZ PEOPLE: David "Geordie Dave" Curtis complains about giant pigs invading his home town of Seaham on Sea
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10th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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9th April: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Tortoises in Essex and a letter from Ken Livingstone
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9th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Musings on megamouths, racism and antipsychotic drugs
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9th April: Part three of the Dr Strangely Strange concert from London last February is now online..
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9th April: ANIMAL WELFARE: PETA are "bonkers" says Dr Dan
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9th April: ANIMAL WELFARE: Is the new campaign from PETA a remarkably clever bit of psychology, or just plain nuts? Bring back the naked actresses we say.
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9th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY IN THE MEDIA: Richard Freeman interviews Dr Who writer Nick Walters about the problems inherent in adding animals and monsters to an imaginary world
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9th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern finds some interesting things in Neil Arnold's new book
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9th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: If you have read Jon's latest book The Island of Paradise then you will know that he and Nicky Redfern went to Puerto Rico in 2004 with the SciFi Channel. Here is the film they made.
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8th April: TERATOLOGY: A picture of a two-headed shark from the CFZ Archives. Sadly Jon's powers of creativity let him down and he couldn't think of a decent pun for the title. Perhaps you can help him!
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8th April: FORTEAN: An unjustifiable obscure 19th Century black dog encounter
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8th April: CFZ: Jon explains why there were no Usenet updates this lunchtime, and why he has not answered any of his e-mails
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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey on Iceland's last Great Auk. When will they ever learn?
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8th April: THE AMATEUR NATURALIST: Following the story of Barry the polychaete the other day, Richard tells of his own encounter with a worm of this ilk, and explains that they are actually quite aggressive and vicious. Goodness me!
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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Film of the most peculiar anglerfish I have ever seen
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8th April: CFZ NEWS SERVER: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today
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7th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Exclusive extract from Linda Godfrey's forthcoming book on Wisconsin Werewolves
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7th April: COMMENT: Richard Freeman is disgusted at the public reaction to two recent crocodile attacks. The mob may have spoken, but it doesn't know what it is talking about.
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7th April: TERATOLOGY: Nick Redfern tells us about a compelling new book
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7th April: AMATEUR NATURALIST: Film of a delightful Australian marsupial called the bilby Click here for further details...
7th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman unearths more strange snake stories from an ancient book
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7th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Was it a mystery animal that totalled this SUV in rural North Carolina? A similar incident happned to a Range Rover in the Home Counties about fourteen years ago, and on that occasion they blamed a big cat! Warning contains moments of unintentional comedy.
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7th April: FORTEAN: The Cannibals of Clovelly
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7th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today
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6th April: WEIRD WEEKEND: The poster for this year's event unveiled. Goodness me it's a pteranodon swooping on the village...
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6th April: FORTEAN: Mike Hallowell on shapeshifting Geordie lowlife from times past
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6th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Loadsa moa stuff from the CFZ Archiving Project.
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6th April: CFZ: Jon muses on books, fishtanks, laser printers, and the future of the CFZ library Click here for further details...
6th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The strange story of a worm called Barry
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6th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A three part video about a recent hunt for the thylacine. Gripping stuff!
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6th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us yesterday's news today
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5th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman looks at the Japanese obsession with cephalopods, and finds a possible cryptozoological explanation
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5th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead is back with more Muirhead's Mysteries. This time we have feathered fish, furry fish and an eagle where it definitely should not have been.
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5th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Two April Fools jokes from otherwise unimpeachable zoological sources. How could we have missed them?
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5th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Nigel Wright, who for years drove us around the country and fulfilled much the same role as Matty Osborne does now, casts his mind back to 1997 and his first encounter with the CFZ
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5th April: CFZtv: The April episode of On the Track is finally up, and this time we haven't pimched any music from Warners. It includes mystery fish of Hong Kong, re-arranging the CFZ grounds, our Hong Kong zoology project, Amphibians from Outer Space, the Devil's Footprints, the Rendlesham Bear, new frogs from Peru and lots more. It also features a cameo appearance by Oll as the Prince of Darkness. Inspired casting methinks. When Kate Bush wrote, "they say The Devil is a charming man", she could have written "they say The Devil is a portly Welshman".
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5th April: Only the divine Ms F could join in the current debate on teratology and lusus naturae with a ridiculously cute freak of nature; a two nosed bunny rabbit. All together now ""aaaaaw"..
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5th April: It is the first week of the month, and that means that the CFZ Press Hit Parade is out again. Well done to Neil and Karl in particular...
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5th April: Please allow him to introduce himself - it's Oll with Yesterday's News Today
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4th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby on Scottish seaserpents
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4th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Fleur has an unexpectedly crypto week (warning contains cake)
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4th April: ZOOLOGY:I have been looking at weird fish for over 40 years, but this is the weirdest Goddamn fish that I have ever seen
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4th April: CFZ: Good news - despite the setbacks the April OTT is finished and will be up tomorrow
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4th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold investigates monster fish from the Netherlands
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4th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard finds some peculiar items in an 18th Century book on serpents
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4th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon is overwhelmed...
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4th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings you Yesterday's News Today.
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3rd April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A strange tale of furry trout and true believers.
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3rd April: CFZ: Jon's ongoing health problems and an appeal for (non-financial) assistance.
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3rd April: TERATOLOGY: Conjoined terrapins.
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3rd April: FOLKLORE: Corinna talks about imps
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3rd April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The Rendlesham bear story has mutated again!
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3rd April: AMATEUR NATURALIST/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Derek Grebner on the importance of woodcraft
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3rd April: AMATEUR NATURALIST: A Wild Turkey? Pah! Doesn't anyone know ow't these days?
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3rd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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2nd April: CFZ: It has all gone pretty badly wrong, as Jon explains. But hopefully, it will soon get better
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2nd April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The mermaid and the smelt.. the first Cheshire based bloggo from Glen Vaudrey
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2nd April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold brings us the second part of his feature on Dutch Zooform Phenomena
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2nd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: The fifth trenche of avian news clippings
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2nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland looks for the rolling stoats (cue a string of Keith Richards jokes)
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2nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland looks for the rolling stoats (cue a string of Keith Richards jokes)
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2nd April: FORTEAN: Jon reopens the God versus Science debate
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2nd April: CFZ PEOPLE: Mike Hallowell asks for help with his latest project
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2nd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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1st April: CONSERVATION: A rare Australian bat is facing extinction
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1st April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern's take on the recent events in Rendlesham Forest
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1st April: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon has had a crappy day. What will make it better? A completely irrelevant picture of a baby otter, that's what
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1st April: APRIL FOOLS: The CFZ has no shortage of foolishness, and this is the day on which we celebrate the fact
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1st April: OUT OF PLACE: Good news for New York's burgeoning population of quaker parakeets, and a Beastie Boys pun
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1st April: TERATOLOGY: Colin Higgins comments on yesterday's Siamese Pike story
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1st April: ZOOLOGY: Dr Chris Clark explains a little known facet of batrachian evolution
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1st April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A BHM Report from the Home Counties
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1st April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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