2010: February

28th February:HUMOUR: Max unearths a cartoon-strip about Darwin
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28th February:CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The third trench of general fortean and fortean zoology stories
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28th February:FORTEAN: The sevnth look at the monsters of Prague, from Richard F
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28th February:SILLINESS: Oll sent me this video purporting to be of a giant Arctis sea animal. I prost it with no further comment.
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28th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Skeggy sea monster. Much to my amusement, when I was setting this page out last night, a young person in my household (who shall remain anonymous) asked why a sea monster was on hard drugs. They had mistaken `Skeggy` (a colloquial term for the Lincolnshire seaside resort of Skegness) with `Scag` (a colloquialism for the juice of the fruit of the poppy). What a silly world it is in which we live!
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28th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Great auks in a Victorian tome
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28th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th February:CFZ: The CFZ Sponsorship squad hit the streets (WARNING: Contains photographs of Oll in a suit)
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27th February:ANIMAL RIGHTS: Richard Freeman explains the latest developments in the battle between Sea Shepherd and the Japanese whaling industry. The Sea Shepherd guys are heroes, and it is the duty of all of us decent folk to support them.
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27th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bigfoot at the Winter Olympics
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27th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead takes a look at the vegetable kingdom and at slime moulds. As neither are animals (slime moulds are protists) then I guess the `cryptozoology` categorisation for this story is complete pants
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27th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at a Michigan lake creature
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27th February:NATURAL HISTORY: The strange story of my ex-housekeeper, a bunch of bananas and a mysterious cocoon
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27th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th February:FORTEAN/NATURAL HISTORY: This latest story about Mexican wolves just goes to prove that what I said yesterday about synchronicity is true
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26th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: If this photograph, allegedly of an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake is genuine, then wow!
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26th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby wonders whether Nessie migrates
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26th February:FORTEAN: Part Six of the monsters of Prague
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26th February:TAXONOMY FAIL: Maxy is back
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26th February:NATURAL HISTORY: The mystery bird of North Devon solved with a pun from The Decemberists
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26th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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25th February:NATURAL HISTORY: Bobcats under threat
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25th February:FORTEAN: I have noticed on many occasions how, when the game is well and truly afoot, and a particular investigation is in full spate, that all sorts of similar (or vaguely related) news items all turn up in my inbox. At the moment it is all about doggies.
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25th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay takes a look at some of the most contentious photographs in the history of Loch Ness investigations
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25th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Wisconsin river monster and an alleged cat x rabbit hybrid
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25th February:NATURAL HISTORY: The Aquarium Gazette website is finally up and running says David Marshall
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25th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Wallabies in Devon. A classic cutting courtesy of Richard Muirhead
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25th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Pharo encounters a weird wader
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24th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Thought for the day from Lindsay (warning: includes Devil Ray)
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24th February:NATURAL HISTORY: Spring has sprung and Oll wants to discuss the matter.
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24th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Maxy muses. Mutilated manatee? maybe.
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24th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: He's back. Glen Vaudrey with a peculiar blog looking at the overlap between the Cthulhu Mythos and the Heuvelmans one
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24th February:ANIMAL WELFARE: Lanette Baker with a heartrending open letter to pet owners who decide to dump or otherwise dispose of their animals
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24th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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23rd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A winged cat in Turkey. Who is this come to investigate? It's Doctor Shuker I presume
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23rd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: In South Carolina something left mysterious prints in the snow, and apparently urinated on a tree
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23rd February:SILLINESS: Mary Bailey sent this silly video from the African veldt
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23rd February:NATURAL HISTORY: Our magazine `The Amateur Naturalist` is back and we are seriously soliciting contributions
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23rd February:NATURAL HISTORY: Dave Curtis has been to the Tynemouth Aquarium where he took some remarkable footage of a Pacific giant octopus
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23rd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A living dinosaur? Surely not
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23rd February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with a tribute to Laurel and Hardy and Yesterday's News Today
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22nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY (OR RATHER CRYPTOBOTANY): Ivan Mackerle in search of the man-eating tree of Madagascar
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22nd February:FOLKLORE: I was pootling about in the archives yesterday looking for something completely different when I found something I had completely forgotten: this article by Richard Freeman on the folklore of Morris Dancing, from back in the days when we both worked for a folk music record label
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22nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: I was sent this video yesterday by someone with the witty name of `anonymous`. I don't believe a word of it, but who made it, and why?
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22nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A brief look at a classic giant anaconda picture
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22nd February:CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The second part of the `General Forteana` archives including odd animal attacks
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22nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Nessie sighting?
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22nd February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A strange carcass washed up in Newfoundland
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21st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Alan explains skull casting
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21st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman's thylacine holiday request
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21st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay on the Heavenly Lake creature
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21st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Feature article on "Hobbits"
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21st February:POLITICS: Lizzy has sad news about the Three Owls Bird Sanctuary. It has been forced to close. Shame!
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21st February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: oll Lewis is back with Yesterday's News Today
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20th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: We need some help preparing specimens. Any suggestions?
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20th February:CFZtv: Corinna reports from the set of Emily and the Big Cats with a torrid tale of treacle
pudding and strange noises
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20th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay with an 1872 sea serpent sighting from Scotland
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20th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead looks at a very odd sea serpent
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20th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold on Littlefoot in Sussex
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20th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Following on from Lindsay's article yesterday about the 1962 Florida Sea Serpent, here is a very informative Dale D pasteup
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20th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: It's Yesterday's News Today, but where's Olly?
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19th February:ZOOLOGY WITH A HINT OF CRYPTO: Is this a salp?
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19th February:ANIMAL WELFARE: Is this good? Is this ethical? Is this fun? I really don't know
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19th February:TERATOLOGY: Linda Lucas sent us this wonderful construct from New Zealand
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19th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay is looking harder at the 1962 sea serpent attack off Florida
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19th February:ANIMAL WELFARE: Man the barricades - the fox hunting debate is just about to be reopened
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19th February:NATURAL HISTORY: Alan F feeds the birds (tuppence a bag)
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19th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at the elusive megalemurs of Madagascar
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18th February:FORTEAN: The fifth part of Richard Freeman's look at the monsters of Prague
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18th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at giant eels
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18th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead looks at big bad birds (and a small duck)
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18th February:POLITICS: Now pancake day is under threat! These people really are idiots says Corinna
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18th February:TAXONOMY FAIL: I am always impressed when someone picks up the baton of one of our stories and runs with it. Today Andrew Hopcroft does just that
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18th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay writes about the WW, academia, Loch Ness and other things
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17th February:TAXONOMY FAIL: Maxy brings us the last TF (for now)
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17th February:FORTEAN: Part four of Richard Freeman's look at the monsters of Prague
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17th February:NATURAL HISTORY: Oll looks at the avian population of the CFZ
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17th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil's on the road again
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17th February:CFZ ARTS: A cultural event of some magnitude
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17th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Filming continues on the Emily movie
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16th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Chad Arment has a new article and two new books
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16th February:WEIRD WEEKEND: It is still only a draft, but here is the programme for the WW
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16th February:CFZ BLOGGO: The Newsblog is one year old today
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16th February:CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna's neice is a clever young lady
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16th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead is on the invertebrate trail
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16th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richie and Naomi West launch the latest CFZ expedition with a remarkable photograph
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15th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at giant snakes
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15th February:NATURAL HISTORY: Lawrie Williams with a touching story about a little bat
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15th February:ARTS: Corinna was trying to find out stuff about ravens, and discovered something remarkably cool
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15th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY (sort of): Cryptozoology? The Olympics? A notorious and tasteless internet meme? What can they all have in common?
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15th February:CFZ BLOGGO: Many apologies for having screwed up the bloggo yesterday
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15th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th February:CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Oll starts work on a huge category entitled `General Forteana`. Who could ask for anything more?
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13th February:CFZ ARTS: Jon gives an unsolicited plug to one of his favourite webcomics, the mildly fortean `Bad Machinery`. Yay!
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13th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at a peculiar Loch Ness incident from 2002, and also celebrates 12 months of her own blog. Well done that lass!
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13th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Kithra is intrigued by the varying sizes and shapes of BHMs from across the world
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13th February:FORTEAN: A mildly intriguing UFO story with some CFZ synchronicity featuring our very own Matt Osborne and Nigel Wright
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13th February:FORTEAN: The second part of Richard Freeman's look at the monsters of Prague
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13th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on "Three Toes" from Dale Drinnon
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12th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An intriguing lake monster story from Cumbria. Thanks Lindsay!
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12th February:FOLKLORE: Corinna tells us what our ancestors thought of hedgehogs
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12th February:FORTEAN: A repository of John Keel stuff
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12th February:TAXONOMY FAIL: Now it is Retrieverman's turn
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12th February:FORTEAN: Richard Freeman takes the first of several peeks at the monsters of Prague
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12th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th February:ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Richard Muirhead starts a new series on the animal mythology of Ireland
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11th February:CFZ: We have just received a generous donation to our fighting fund. Thank You Adam
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11th February:CFZ PRESS: The movers and the shakers in the only hit parade that matters
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11th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby brings us a vintage interview about the Lough Fadda monster
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11th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tania Poole is in Oll's specially crafted hotseat
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11th February:ZOOLOGY: Exciting remote camera footage of two of the world's rarest big cats as well as still pictures of several rare small cats
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11th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on two Indonesian cryptids
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10th February:OUT OF PLACE: A monkey in Australia's Northern Territories
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10th February:BLOGGO: Jon makes a judgement call
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10th February:ZOOLOGY: Ever since reading about it in Encounters with Animals by Gerald Durrell, I have wanted to see a Surinam toad giving birth. Here it is...
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10th February:FORTEAN: The LAPIS Conference
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10th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon takes a fascinating look at a long dismissed cryptid - Sanderson's "Old Three Toes"
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10th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th February:BLOGGO: Minor computer issues force apology to Dale, Ivan and Richard
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9th February:MAX BLAKE: Further Taxonomy Fail
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9th February:CFZ PRESS: We have managed to baffle Lindsay
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9th February:NATURAL HISTORY: Another cute baby
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9th February:ZOOLOGY: New film of living oarfish
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9th February:RESEARCH: Richard Muirhead concludes his three part look at obscure source materials for cryptozoological research.
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9th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today.
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8th February:CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The 24th and last (for now) BHM cuttings from the CFZ archives.
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8th February:FORTEAN: Mike Hallowell with a story of Geordie weirdness featuring an entombed linnet's nest
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8th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Kithra critiques new bigfoot video
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8th February:FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: An interesting and completely inaccurate article abour mysterious tree frogs
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8th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at the Florida river monster
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8th February:CFZ PRESS: Exclusaive money-off offer on forthcoming CFZ Press book
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8th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th February:CFZ: So what's been going on here?
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7th February:FORTEAN: An Owlman cartoon
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7th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with modern sightings of dragons
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7th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: What are these? We have a shrewd idea
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7th February:NATURAL HISTORY: Octrober may be nine months away, but it is when the next AES show will be
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7th February:NATURAL HISTORY: What a brilliant thing to do! There's a bloke here who has a worldwide butterfly identification service
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7th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th February:RESEARCH: Muirhead's Mysteries takes a look at some more obscure journals
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6th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A different aspect to the Loch Ness Monster
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6th February:NATURAL HISTORY: A peculiar case of Butterfly Fraud
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6th February:NATURAL HISTORY: A Mystery Insect in Thailand
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6th February:CONSERVATION: The latest newsletter from the Center for Biological Diversity
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6th February:FORTEAN: Jon in the Bideford Post
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6th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis presents Yesterday's News Today
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5th February:CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part 23 of the BHM archives
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5th February:FORTEAN: Richard Freeman looks at the monster cartoons of Hanna
Barbera
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5th February:CONSERVATION: Center for Biological Diversity Newsletter
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5th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: London Crypto Event
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5th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Bigfoot in Guatamala
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5th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Darren's blog on Champ is scrutinised by Dale
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4th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Examining some obscure sources with Richard M
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4th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The boy Muirhead is in Oliver's hotseat
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4th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Holland brings another strange print to our attention. What do you think?
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4th February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Matt Salusbury - it's a big foot print, but is it a bigfoot print? Or just an intriguing simulacra?
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4th February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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3rd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold takes a look at some notable escapees
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3rd February:CFZ PEOPLE: Sadly Corinna does not understand the joy of gluttony, nor why Jon and Richard danced around the kitchen singing a song about "The Biscuit Cavalcade"
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3rd February:FORTEAN ARTS: Yesterday Antony my brother-in-law sent this bizarre story about an art installation featuring live finches and an electric guitar..
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3rd February:TAXONOMY FAIL: Yes, young Maximilian is back, and this time its serious (ish).
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3rd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby is a machine! How she writes so many bloggo postings I shall never know. Today she looks at the mini yeti.
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3rd February:CFZ: Ken Eakins writes.
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3rd February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today.
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2nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest episode of `On the Track` is out, and it is a corker.
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2nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another bloody great pig from Texas. But is is genuine? Or have messrs Adobe had ow't to do with it?
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2nd February:TERATOLOGY: A weird looking deer courtesy of Max Blake
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2nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby examines a double sighting of the Loch Ness Monster
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2nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: In the hotseat today, being asked five questions about cryptozoology, is David "Geordie Dave" Curtis. Huzzah!
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2nd February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman looks at the yeti claims of Reinhold Messner, and is not impressed
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2nd February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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1st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mike and Ruby are flying the CFZ Flag down under
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1st February:FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold looks at some Sussex accounts of Springheeled Jack and comes up with a zoological explanation
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1st February:FORTEAN: Alan Friswell is back with a non-cryptozoological, but undeniably weird, Freaky Feature
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1st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon identifies the monster of Lake Nicaragua
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1st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman looks at invasive species
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1st February:CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby travels back half a century to Canvey Island and some dead anglerfish
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1st February:CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Yesterday's News Today presented by the
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