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Saturday 1 May 2010

2010: May

31st May: NATURAL HISTORY: A jumping spider eatsa wasp on Naomi's porch
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31st May: NATURAL HISTORY: An invaluable archive is sadly lost forever
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31st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: With his best pun yet, Dale Drinnon reports on the `abominable geography` of yeti researchers.
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31st May: NATURAL HISTORY: A news item we had not seen before about a dead goblin shark
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31st May: FORTEAN: An art exhibition about parasitic fairies
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31st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Andreas Trottmann sends us an archive story about something peculiar at Loch Lomond
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31st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Corinna Downes brings us Yesterday's News Today
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30th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A peculiar chunk of CCTV footage from Fresno, California was sent to us yesterday by a TV researcher..
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30th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Redfern finds strange creatures in his own back yard
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30th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Bloggo stalwart Kithra is moving. We wish her well
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30th May: FORTEAN: Richard Freeman with part 13 of the Monsters of Prague
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30th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at the Tim Dinsdale film of the Loch Ness Monster
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30th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Two more generous donations to the CFZ fighting fund. As always, what we are spending them on is not glamorous, but jolly necessary
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30th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll is on holiday with his girlfriend for a few days, so in his absence it will be Corinna Downes with Yesterday's News Today
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29th May: CONSERVATION: Protests against Japanese censorship of dolphin kill movie
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29th May: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Jon's sister wants a dinosaur
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29th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tony Lucas on the radio
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29th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby presents the OTHER Trout Lake monster
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29th May: CFZ: Serious requests for help from Jon
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29th May: SILLINESS: Alan Friswell is seriously disturbed
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29th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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28th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries visits Utah to look at what appear to be giant bird nests
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28th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Update on the Orang Pendek DNA tests
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28th May: CFZ "PEOPLE": Biggles still feels sorry for himself
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28th May: CFZ PEOPLE: The day Graham turned Day-Glo
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28th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna muses on maggots and bedsheets
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28th May: CFZ PRESS: Nick and Ken have a book out soon
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28th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th May: ANIMAL WELFARE: Fight the repeal of the hunting ban
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27th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby takes a look at the ucu
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27th May: CONSERVATION: The latest on the saga of the Fairy Cross Orchids
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27th May: CFZ: Oll makes much needed cosmetic improvements to our caecilian tank
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27th May: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Baby rabbits and more
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27th May: CFZ PEOPLE: A visit to Noela - the oldest member of the CFZ
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27th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at sea monster classifications
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26th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Part three of Neil Arnold's thought provoking new series
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26th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at the ahool
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26th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Olls woodland glade
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26th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Carl Portman and the Camel Spider
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26th May: CFZ ANIMALS: How Richard Muirhead has helped to expand our livebearer collection
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26th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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25th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Jessica Taylor (star, alongside her elder sister Emily of the forthcoming CFZ big cat movie) is a most peculiar child
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25th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Well, I suppose that it is cryptozoology in the broadest sense; some bloke has got something odd in his fishtank and doesn't know what it is. I can't see anything much..
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25th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Davey Curtis is in Belarus
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25th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby's Loch Ness blog
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25th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard needs two translators, and Ken needs a lot of formaldehyde
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25th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Tania Poole with strange tales from the antipodes
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25th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Oregon Sasquatch Symposium
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24th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries takes a look at peculiar Chinese reptiles
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24th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Corinna muses on.... stuff
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24th May: NATURAL HISTORY: CFZ Australia with a jolly tale of an antique platypus
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24th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Jon, Helen L and Dave B-P record the theme music to the `Emily` film
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24th May: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Rossi's hawk and other stuff
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24th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Robert Schneck sent us some strict instructions re Biggles, and we followed them to the letter
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24th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis brings us Yesterday's News Today
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23rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Aubrey Menezes and Jan Edwards were just two of the people who sent me the story of what the idiots of the media are calling `Canada's Montauk Monster` (I think its a dead otter - what about you?)
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23rd May: ENVIRONMENTAL: I make no excuses for having pinched this article from HerpDigest because although we all know about macro-environmental degradation, this piece approaches the equally seriopus problem of micro-degradation
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23rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The second part of Neil Arnold's intriguing new series
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23rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon attempts to construct a composite Jersey Devil
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23rd May: FORTEAN: Those of you in the south of England may be interested in this event
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23rd May: NATURAL HISTORY: Oll Lewis looks at the behaviour of the CFZ eels
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23rd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at recent sightings of the Loch Ness Monster
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22nd May: ANIMAL WELFARE: The tale of Bluebell the Badger
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22nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at recent sightings of the Loch Ness Monster
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22nd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A wildcat on Mull? Can such a thing be? Well yes, according to Glen Vaudrey
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22nd May: NATURAL HISTORY: David Marshall visits the aquarium at the World Museum
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22nd May: ARTS: Matt Williams sent a photograph of a spectacular picture of an elephant, which sent Jon on a trip down memory lane
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22nd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Breaking News - we are getting a new blue dog carcass
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21st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Mike Hallowell with a tale of Geordie Devil Crabs
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21st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with tales of living mammoths
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21st May: CFZ PEOPLE: For the second time in two days we have to say that Paul Haresnape is a very nice bloke
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21st May: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Goats, barn owls but no baby badger
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21st May: BIGGLES: Poor Biggles is feeling very sorry for himself
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21st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Paul Haresnape has given us a donation. Thanks buddy
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20th May: CONSERVATION: Richard F with bad news about rhinos
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20th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby introduces us to a lake monster called `Oggie`
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20th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Is this the Emmaville Panther?
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20th May: TAXONOMY FAIL: Young Blake is back
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20th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Yesterday we announced that Hong Kong has a new turtle species. But why is this such a big deal?
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20th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Hong Kong has a new turtle
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19th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Nick Redfern reviews Brad Stieger
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19th May: TALES FROM WALLAND FARM: Rossi gows hawking
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19th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Naomi West thinks that her life is like a reality TV show
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19th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold with the first in a thought-provoking new series - `If this was...`
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19th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The rhinoceros as unicorn
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19th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th May: CONSERVATION/ACTIVISM: It looks like the Greenpeace action (with which we in our own small way were involved) against Nestle was a success
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18th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon takes a look at Asian mystery hominids
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18th May: CFZ PRESS: Nick Redfern reviews Carl Portman's new book
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18th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Continuing the amphiuma thread of the past week or so - a video
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18th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Our old mate Kenn Thomas asked us to post this
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18th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Two more donations - thanks guys
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18th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at the chuchunaa
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17th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Corinna sees something odd on Dartmoor. Is she nuts?
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17th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another freshwater octopus story. Once again a hoax
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17th May: MUSIC: Another great rocker bites the dust
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17th May: NATURAL HISTORY: More tales from Walland Farm
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17th May: CFZ ANIMALS: Some good fishy news for a change
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17th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: This naga must have been photoshopped. But why? And by whom?
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16th May: CFZ: We ate cake and drank tea. Some sheep teased us. We heard a cuckoo, and Biggles threw up in the back of the car. A splendid time was had by all
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16th May: CFZ ANIMALS: Dr D visits our amphiumas
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16th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead finds something particularly nasty in the South American woodshed
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16th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon is musing on species
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16th May: CFZ ANIMALS: Horrid news
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16th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th May: BEASTHUNT: Jon and Corinna head for Dartmoor!
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15th May: BOOK PUBLISHING: Mike and Ruby remind us that launch day approaches
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15th May: EXTINCT?: Max Blake looks at the ivorybilled woodpecker
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15th May: ATTACKS: polar bear leg munch... Oll's dad reports...
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15th May: CONSERVATION: Glen Venezio on a threat to the dugong and Okinawa's reefs
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15th May: MONSTERS & WONDER: fantasy artist Frank Frazetta dies
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15th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker takes a look at an obscure antipodean cryptid, and asks whatever happened to the Aussie Nightgrowler?
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14th May: FORTEAN: According to Matt Williams, the latest crop circles have an unusual aspect to them
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14th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Once again, Corinna gets soppy about baby animals, one of which was until recently a bona fide cryptid. It doesn't get much better than this
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14th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Jon gets all sentimental over a Hong Kong freshwater mountain crab
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14th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at another obscure African cryptid
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14th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman asks whether this is a very early depiction of orang pendek
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14th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Dr Shuker from back in the day
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13th May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The latest trenche of forteana
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13th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at the work of Henry Bauer
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13th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The Israeli gray whale on film
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13th May: CFZ ANIMALS: Breeding success for the black chinned livebearers
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13th May: CONSERVATION/POLITICS: Good news about the orchids of Fairy Cross
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13th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman spotlights a giant jellyfish
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12th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead takes a second look at the curiosities of Cheshire natural history
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12th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Dave B-P is revisiting his Uncle's adolescence. Suggestions please...
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12th May: FORTEAN: Lindsay Selby on The Jersey Devil
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12th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Apparently I screwed up the links on the web page yesterday and had load's of emails asking what Dave McMann's unsavoury suggestion actually was, so here it is again
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12th May: CFZ PRESS: The latest on Richard's yokai book
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12th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A gray whale in the Med
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12th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Two views of a mystery bird. What is it?
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11th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. The Irish lake monsters re-rear their ugly heads
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11th May: CFZ PRESS: Nicky Redfern raves about Richard's new book
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11th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Part Two of Neil Arnold's disturbing new series
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11th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby recommends some interesting articles by CFZ members
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11th May: CFZ PEOPLE: Dave McMann makes a particularly unsavoury suggestion
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11th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th May: ANIMAL WELFARE: Childhood fantasies dashed: Flipper "committed suicide"
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: An appeal for help from CFZ Australia
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby with the monster of Lough Major
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Courtesy opf Paul Cropper there are now some more interesting big cat articles in the archive
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10th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: The first part of a disturbing new series from Neil Arnold.
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10th May: CFZ: A kind donation is helping us with our amphiumas. Thank you Giselle.
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10th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th May: SILLINESS: The return of Taxonomy Fail
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9th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at the monster of Loch Morar
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9th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Myeteries visits Sussex
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9th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern has a new blog
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9th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold with a Strange Sussex monster
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9th May: CFZ PRESS: The April Hit Parade
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9th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th May: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The latest trenche of fortean odds and sods
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8th May: NATURAL HISTORY/ SORT OF CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Every year someone finds one of these and claims that there is a mysterious creature in their garden
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8th May: CONSERVATION: Obscure marsupial breeding success says CFZ Australia
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8th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at a weird South American monster
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8th May: CONSERVATION: The latest in the saga of our struggle to protect the orchids of Fairy Cross
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8th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Nestle versus the orang utans
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8th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th May: POLITICS: The election was rather odd
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7th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A Hong Kong mongoose mystery
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7th May: CFZ ON THE ROAD: Richard Freeman is giving a lecture in Leicester tomorrow
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7th May: NATURAL HISTORY: Another unidentified insect
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7th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Moa gender conundrum
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7th May: CONSERVATION: Update on our struggle to save the early purple orchids of Fairy Cross
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7th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th May: POLITICS: Hmmmmm
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6th May: SILLINESS: Taxonomy Fail from Maxy
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6th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A strange Floridian story from Neil Arnold
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6th May: NATURAL HISTORY: The CFZ Environmental Protection Squad (Orchid Defence Division)
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6th May: NATURAL HISTORY: A strange yellow and black insect - what is it?
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6th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another Moa Mystery via Tony Lucas
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6th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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5th May: CFZ: Jon explains a few things relating to the websites
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5th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead takes his second look at the animals of a newly discovered Romanian cave system
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5th May: CONSERVATION: Glen V wades into action on behalf of marine turtles
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5th May: NATURAL HISTORY: National Moth Night
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5th May: NATURAL HISTORY: David Marshall on what happened at the Ryedale A.S Open Show
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5th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lisa and Richard have written in Phenomena magazine this month
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5th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Service
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4th May: FORTEAN: Dr Shuker - Troll Hunter
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4th May: FORTEAN: The good doctor warned of owly stuff arising. Well, it seems that he was right
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4th May: STRANGELY STRANGE: Richard Freeman send a picture of a chimpanzee dressed as Napoleon. But why?
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby looks at Sabre-toothed cats
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Publicising Mike and Ruby's book
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4th May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Neil Arnold asks a question about cats
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4th May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: oll Lewis with a stupid Star Wars pun, and Yesterday's News Today
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3rd May: FORTEAN: Jon and Corinna's latest column in The Bideford Post may both instruct and amuse
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3rd May: NATURAL HISTORY: A fascinating expose of neoteny in tailed amphibians. Contains stunning new evidence
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3rd May: CONSERVATION: Richard Freeman reports on the cruel death of .3% of the world's total population of Meditteranean monk seals
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3rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead has uncovered a fleeting, but tantalising, reference to a peculiar batrachian from South Devon. What the heck can it be?
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3rd May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay looks at some animal mysteries from South America
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3rd May: NATURAL HISTORY: A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Entomological Livestock Group
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3rd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd May: NATURAL HISTORY: Lindsay bemoans the decline of the vampire bat
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2nd May: NATURAL HISTORY: Do we have our priorities right?
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2nd May: POLITICS: Sad but probably true
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2nd May: CONSERVATION: Stop Norwegian whaling
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2nd May: MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Underground animals in Romania
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2nd May: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday to Corinna's brother Ant
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2nd May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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1st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: It's that time of the month again. Episode 32 of OTT is online, and phew it's a corker
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1st May: NATURAL HISTORY: Mystery insect seen in France
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1st May: NATURAL HISTORY: Corinna with a peculiar story of an Australian housewife and some bees. Strewth cobber
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1st May: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Some potentially fantastic news from New Zealand
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1st May: CFZ ARTS: A French artist who works with caddisflies
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1st May: CONSERVATION: The latest news from the Center for Biological Diversity
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1st May: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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