2010: April

30th April: THIS IS THE MODERN WORLD: I am sure that this will provoke complaints from people for whom video gaming is a bona fide art form, but to me the news that the Boy Scouts of America now have a merit badge in video gaming is just another nail in the coffin of western civilisation.
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30th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon presents a note on nagas
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30th April: WEIRD WEEKEND 2010: Julian Vayne is back
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30th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold on cats that can't be caught
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30th April: NATURAL HISTORY/FORTEAN: Strange animal stories from Brazil
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30th April: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: So, Britain has a new mammal. Where did it come from?
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30th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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29th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dr Shuker and the giant mole
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29th April: NATURAL HISTORY: So what actually IS the Endler's Livebearer?
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29th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The latest trenche from the archives
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29th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mystery animal caught on CCTV
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29th April: CFZ Ummm PEOPLE: The CFZ alpha male (self styled) holds forth
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29th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with the Barmouth Sea Serpent
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29th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th April: CFZ PRESS: The fourth volume of the collected editions of Animals & Men is now available, a month after we said it would be. Sorry guys
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28th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Hermaphroditic fish mystery
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28th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman finds a new source for stories about Oriental dragons
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28th April: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold with a classic nasty tale of the Glocester Ghoul
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28th April: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Richard M trawls through Scottiosh newspaper indexes in search of fortean booty
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28th April: CFZ PRESS: Nick Redfern looks at Andy Roberts' new book
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28th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Last night my mailbag included a letter about moas
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27th April: PECULIAR: A particularly unpleasant piece of historical minutae from Richard. Naomi - I strongly suggest that you do not read this
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at Neanderthal skulls, real and carved
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27th April: FORTEAN: Lindsay Selby examines the black bird of Chernobyl
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27th April: FORTEAN: Aspects of the mothman case re-examined
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27th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A snippet of film from Australia which looks reminiscent of the blue dogs we were chasing in Texas. Coincidence? Probabvly
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27th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Oll is carrying out a mammal survey of the CFZ grounds
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26th April: CFZ: Steve Jones exxplains stuff to the old codger Jon
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26th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell looks at the giant flea of Gateshead
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26th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman looks at the giant flea of Gateshead
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26th April: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Kaye is back after a gap of about eight months, and they have pygmy goats
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26th April: SILLINESS: Virtual taxonomy fail
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26th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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25th April: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman takes his 12th look at the monsters of Prague
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25th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Last week a giant gecko was rediscovered in New Zealand. Sadly for cryptozoologists, it was the wrong giant gecko
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25th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Mysterious footprint
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25th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Florida lake monsters in the news
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25th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Following on from yesterday's rather dodgy Yowie video, here is a slightly less dodgy almasty one. However, Richard is less than impressed
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25th April: NATURAL HISTORY: The Heron Controversy continues
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25th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th April: SILLINESS: Another particularly stupid instance of what Max calls Taxonomy Fail
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24th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Oll Lewis unearths more interesting snippets from the CFZ archives Click here for further details...
24th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey continues this week's theme of North American giant salamanders
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24th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead looks at a Hong Kong tiger sighting
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24th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Has Our Gavin managed to film something unprecedented in the annals of hedgehogdom?
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24th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Yowie sighting?
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24th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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23rd April: NATURAL HISTORY: Identify this birdie. It appears to be a heron, but what species?
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23rd April: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna had a nice day at home
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23rd April: SILLINESS: Andrew Hopcroft sent this. Biggles thinks it is excellent
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23rd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Florida lake monster
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23rd April: CFZ: We don't quite see the point, but someone has pirated part of our Gambia movie
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23rd April: CFZ ON THE ROAD: Yesterday, Richard, Jon and Graham went to Reading where a splendid time was had by all
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23rd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: That ridicuously photoshopped Borneo giant snake has reared its head again. Oh dear, aren't we being cynical
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22nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at Taniwhas
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22nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead on a mystery wolf
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22nd April: FORTEAN: A piece of totally off-topic Devon weirdness from Richard Muirhead
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22nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with an unpronouncable Canadian dragon
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22nd April: OUT AND ABOUT WITH THE CFZ: Graham, Richard and Jon, and (we hope) Gavin L-W will be at Reading Library this evening. Will you join us?
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22nd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tuscan Cockatrice alert
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21st April: FORTEAN: The monsters of Prague Part 11
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21st April: SILLINESS: This ain't quite a taxonomy fail, but...
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21st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: more blue dog comparisons
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21st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A kosher cookbook for cryptids
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21st April: ANIMAL WELFARE: The threat of commercial whaling looks like it may be returning
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21st April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries examines a Lancashire dragon
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20th April: POLITICS: A bumper sticker
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Cypriot Lake Monster
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Australian Mystery Cats
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20th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tantalising reports of unknown North American giant salamanders
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20th April: CFZ: Change of plans
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20th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Why would a TV presenter lick a hellbender? Answers on a postcard...
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19th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: In the wake of our succesful blue dog expedition, Scottie muses on North American canids
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19th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil on the radio
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19th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at some controversial films from the 1930s which purport to show the Loch Ness Monster
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19th April: WEIRD WEEKEND: We are proud to announce the latest additions to the lineup for this year's event
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19th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Giant Sharks down under
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19th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker takes a look at an elusive African mystery cat: Nunda - the strange one
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18th April: MYTHOLOGY: Harriet Wadham (10), one of my favourite bloggo columnists,takes a look at Greek Mythology
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18th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay asks a most peculiar question
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18th April: CONSERVATION: Alan Friswell sent us this petition about polar bears
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18th April: BLOGGO UPDATE: What is happening next week
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18th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part Seven of the general animal forteana files have now been made available
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18th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold flies the CFZ flag on NBC News
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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Almost an alliteration - more mystery mermaids from Muirhead
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17th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Yesterday Retrieverman set us a challenge, and to my immense pride the massed troops of the CFZ bloggo rose to the occasion.
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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: This video of an immense tortoise is splattered all over YouTube. It is obviously a fake, but from whence did it originate.
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17th April: FORTEAN: Corinna goes ghost Hunting
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17th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Our Lindsay on the track of another little known lake creature - this one's from Idaho
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17th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Scottie W has set us a challenge
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16th April: TAXONOMY FAIL: The return of the thin white Max, shooting darts in lovers's eyes
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16th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The ultimate Blue Dog picture
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16th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Aversion therapy for quolls
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16th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Update on Chupacabras name research
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16th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Baby zebras for Shosh
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16th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th April: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Richard has just found another source for material on marine mysteries
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15th April: CFZ PEOPLE: The bloggo has a number of functions, and one of them is so that young ladies can say goodbye to their beloved pets..
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15th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with another Scottish lake monster - this time from Loch Treig
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15th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna gives vent to her feminist side
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15th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Good old Davey Curtis, tireless chronicler of the uncanny in Seaham on Sea. Now something unexpected has washed up on the beach...
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15th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon has a remarkable knack for being able to make connections. Today he makes one between the Bungalow Beach creature from The Gambia, which was the subject of our 2006 expedition, and a lesser known sighting from East Africa. Well done dude..
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15th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: As Loren wrote on Cryptomundo yesterday there are people who have "created an imaginary feud" between him and us. Well, it is purely imaginary dudes...
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14th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Well it ain't a sea monster by any stretch of the imagination, DESPITE what it says on YouTube. But what is it?
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14th April: FRISWELL'S FREAKY FEATURES: Alan visits `Animal World`
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14th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Liz presented a lecture about the CFZ to the Catholic Women's League in Rochdale
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14th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby has a butcher's at the Loch Quoich kelpie
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14th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Robert Schneck sent this link to some of the most beautiful insect photography I have ever seen; sparkled with dew these creatures look like exquisite jewellery
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14th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: I cannot work out whether this encounter with an unknown animal from YouTube is a cleverly scripted `reality TV` spoof, or just amusing happenstance. Answers on a postcard please.. Click here for further details...
13th April: CFZ PEOPLE: A vaguely on-topic (to use her words) rant from our Liz
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13th April: CFZ PEOPLE: More lawn renovation from Graham's blog
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13th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: From the archives of the late, unlamented Tropical World magazine, Richard Freeman visits Pembroke Dock in search of monsters
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13th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Kithra answers my challenge and apparently pushes back the use of the word `chupacabra` to 1983.
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13th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold brings us a Chinese child stealing monster
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12th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A singular long-necked marine creature drom down under, courtesy of Lindsay
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12th April: NATURAL HISTORY: The Ryedale A.S Open Show
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12th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Naomi West and the case of the Porch Birds
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12th April: CFZ MEDIA: Dewey Lansing is trying to finance season 2 of `Forests of Mystery`
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12th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Will `Christian`, the guy who commented on yesterday's story about giant water bugs, please email me?
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12th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th April: CFZ PEOPLE: The latest news on Dave B-P - and it is all good!
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11th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Asian giant water bugs
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11th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon revisits the Egede sea serpent sighting
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11th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Another trenche of general animal forteana
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11th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Chupacabra. What's in a name?
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11th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Syd Henley points us in the direction of a remarkable series of hummingbird pictures
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11th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Dave B-P is once more out of hospital - let's hope it is for good this time
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10th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna muses on... all sorts of things really
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10th April: SILLINESS: A special vegetable edition of Taxonomy Fail from the irrepressable Max
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10th April: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A strange Sussex story from the archives, via Neil Arnold
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10th April: THE DEVIL'S FOOTPRINTS IN LONDON
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10th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lion Lore from Muirhead's Mysteries
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10th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Dave B-P is back in hospital
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9th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Corinna muses on kiwis
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9th April: MUSIC: Death of a Big Star
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9th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Max in the news
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9th April: CFZ ANIMALS: Despite all the setbacks of last year we are still trying to breed Ramirez's dwarf
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9th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Can you help Tony Lucas?
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9th April: CFZ: Footage of the 1998 expeditions rediscovered
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9th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Good News! Dave B-P is home
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8th April: CFZ PRESS: A sneak preview of the next issue of `The Amateur Naturalist`
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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries presents a strange creature from an Asylum garden
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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Warners are back. Once again we post this purely in the interests of free speech, and do not necessarily endorse anything that they claim
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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Torridgeside Puma sighting
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8th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold with the Kanakee canal dweller
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8th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Dave B-P is in hospital
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7th April: FORTEAN/NATURAL HISTORY: A nice and mildly amusing bit of synchronicity
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7th April: FORTEAN: A nice cetacean simulacra and a lexilink
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7th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The latest crypto-idiocy from the world's press
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7th April: CFZ: A quick head's up on how we are spending our latest donation
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7th April: CFZ ANIMALS: New arrivals for our Hong Kong coolwater tank
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7th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell explores Cleadon Mill
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6th April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: General Forteana Part 5
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6th April: NATURAL WORLD: REALLY COOL FILM OF GIANT MARINE ISOPODS
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6th April: LAKE MONSTERS: Lindsay with an early tale of Chipekwe
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6th April: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: short blog about a tree'd toad
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6th April: CFZ PRESS - March's bestseller lists!
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6th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with yesterday's News Today
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5th April: CFZ PRESS: Finally, Carl Portman's excellent book has been published
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5th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale deconstructs another classic sea serpent sighting
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5th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay contributes to the big fish project
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5th April: CFZ: Thank you to Karen for her generous donation
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5th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Max wouldn't let me include this peculiar illustration for his latest article
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5th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Is everything we do a waste of time? Yes says The Sun and the UK government. But do we believe either of them?
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5th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with yesterday's News Today
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4th April: TAXONOMY FAIL: Max is back
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4th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries looks at a French wildman
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4th April: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna muses on jackdaws, diabetes and stuff
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4th April: NATURAL HISTORY: Jerry the Jackdaw moves into summer accomodation
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4th April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay S talks about a creature in Lake Vattern
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4th April: CFZ PEOPLE: My Mother's Birthday
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4th April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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3rd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl looks at some crypto frauds from past April Fool's day japes
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3rd April: NATURAL HISTORY: Max found this interesting article on blind snakes in Madagascar
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3rd April: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part four of the `General Fortean Zoology` section
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3rd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Disappointing news - we didn't get any DNA from the Sumatra samples
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3rd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey is back with an article about the River Ribble Monster
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3rd April: FORTEAN: David Farrant Interview
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3rd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd April: APRIL FOOLS CATCHUP: We know it is a day late but the Tetrapod Zoology April Fools special deserves to be seen
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2nd April: APRIL FOOLS CATCHUP: We know it is a day late but the CBD April Fools website deserves to be seen
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2nd April: CFZ PRESS: Bob Rickard reviews Michael Woodley's book on the FT website
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2nd April: POLITICS: The Nestle video they don't want you to see
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2nd April: NATURAL HISTORY: The ELG newsletter has one of the most beautiful moths I have ever seen
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2nd April: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman with part 10 of the monsters of Prague
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2nd April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay gives us a whistlestop tour of the lake monsters of Quebec
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2nd April: CFZ BLOGGO: T'is time for all good men to come to the aid of the party
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2nd April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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1st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Episode 31 of On the Track and crikey its a good 'un
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1st April: VERY SERIOUS CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Sea monster report
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1st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More marine marvels from Muirhead
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1st April: CONSERVATION: Endangered species condoms. I know it is April 1st, but this one is actually true
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1st April: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon takes a fresh look at a classic Loch Ness drawing
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1st April: SILLINESS: Taxonomy fail is back!
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1st April: CFZ: Shocking news about CFZ Director Jon Downes
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1st April: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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