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Tuesday 1 February 2011

2011: February

28th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon describes a new rail
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28th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at a particularly contentious case within Palaeo-anthropology
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28th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman reviews `Monsters of New Jersey`
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28th February: PECULIAR: Robert Schneck presents a cephalopod cake
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28th February: RITES OF SPRING: The primroses are out, and Graham has been digging the flower beds
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28th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Lindsay Selby has found a new Nessie blog
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28th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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27th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon presents a salute to Harvey Pratt, Native American
Forensic & Bigfoot Artist
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27th February: SILLINESS: Disturbing news
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27th February: MEDIA: Oll Lewis reviews `Felidae`
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27th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Sympathy for the Devils
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27th February: MEDIA: An obituary for the Brigadier
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27th February: CFZ PEOPLE: It seems that Dale has caught the blogging bug
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27th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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26th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Harriet Wadham is back (and she likes donkeys)
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26th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale discusses the mapinguari
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26th February: NATURAL HISTORY: The turtle controversy continues
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26th February: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Yeti ale? Can such a thing be? Ask Muirhead
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26th February: FORTEAN: The best art project of the week - kids exploring the Chthulhu
mythos
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26th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Footprints in the snow
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26th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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25th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at the contentious Ameranthropoides
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25th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at South American Mystery Apes
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25th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker's most audacious chunk of alliteration yet accompanies a fascinating look at three ridiculously obscure cryptids
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25th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Our very own Harriet Wadham on TV
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25th February: NATURAL HISTORY: After the palpably fake giant eel videos I posted earlier in the week, I thought that it would be a nice idea to look at some bona fide footage of freshwater eel aggression
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25th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Anoles and Biodiversity
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25th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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24th February: OUT OF PLACE ANIMALS: An interesting proposed solution to the problem of Cane
Toads in Australia
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24th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon tells the story of the late Tim Dinsdale and the giant anaconda photographs
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24th February: NATURAL HISTORY: A new website devoted to anoles. How can you possibly resist?
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24th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker solves the mystery of a strange animal painting
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24th February: TAXONOMY FAIL: Another maxified picture
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24th February: ZOOMYTHOLOGY/FORTEAN: Robert Schneck invites you to adopt a mummified animal
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24th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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23rd February: BIG BIRDS: The Creatures That Came To Toledo - Dale Drinnon
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23rd February: CONSERVATION: Sea Shepherd thwarts Japanese whalers
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23rd February: NATURAL WORLD: African Giant Spider Invasion - Dale Drinnon
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23rd February: FOLKLORE: Ken Gerhard's presentation in Austin, TX
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23rd February: FOLKLORE: Neil Arnold's Notes From Norfolk trace a wild man
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23rd February: RESOURCES: Richard Freeman finds smashing new site
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23rd February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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22nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Another giant eel attack? Again, probably not. However, I would
like to know who is responsible for these fakes.
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22nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen is exploring the Whole Wide World. Today he is in Brazil
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22nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A giant eel attack? Probably not
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22nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Beachcombing expounds upon the last unicorn in medicine
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22nd February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY ETC: Some odds and sods from Chad Arment
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22nd February: POLITICS: Libraries under threat
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22nd February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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21st February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: What's an Irish mystery beast doing in Scotland? Karl Shuker will explain.
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21st February: ARTS: Squid art from Robert Schneck
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21st February: FORTEAN: Mike Hallowell presents stories about Geordieland entombed frogs
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21st February: CONSERVATION: The world's rarest rhinos mate
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21st February: NATURAL HISTORY: Butterflies are a 'British Obsession' according to the Beeb
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21st February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon believes that he has identified the 'real dragons'
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21st February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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20th February: TAXONOMY FAIL: It's that Max again
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20th February: NATURAL HISTORY: David Marshall examines the ponds at Burton Agnes Hall in
Yorkshire
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20th February: FORTEAN: Neil Arnold tells the peculiar take of tinfoil man
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20th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Gosh, I wish I had thought of this title
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20th February: FORTEAN: A startling new ghost book from Mike Hallowell and Darren Ritson
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20th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: A winter holiday park with a difference - it was ludicrously bad
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20th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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19th February: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part 41 of General Forteana
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19th February: CRYPTO ARTS: Glen Vaudrey with something very daft
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19th February: FORTEAN: Robert Schneck has just presented the bloggo with the best pun EVER -
and that is in the face of some stiff competition. Oh yes, and there is a giant mosquito as well
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19th February: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Nick Redfern crosses the desert on a horse with no name and
sees monsters (ish)
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19th February: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: Richard Muirhead tells the peculiar tale of the Macclesfield
Jackalope
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19th February: POLITICS: Government U-Turn over forests
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19th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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18th February: MUSIC: A tawdry excuse for a particularly bonkers performance by the legendary John Otway Click here for further details...
18th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: I should have done this a long time ago, but Dale Drinnon now has his own blog in the CFZ Bloggo network. He launches it with a fascinating look at amphipteres,
and a brief mention of the latest `monster` pic from Windermere
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18th February: FORTEAN: His Owliness turns up in LOTR Online
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18th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Hepetofauna monitoring course
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18th February: FORTEAN: So owls do attack koi carp. Readers of my mildly silly book with a brilliant title on the subject of these fish, will know what I am getting at
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18th February: FORTEAN: Vintage press cutting from the Newquay Zoo animal mutilations of
1979. Naomi, I suggest that you do not read this.
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18th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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17th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker looks at the Waheela
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17th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Why Corinna must be obeyeds
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17th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Max Blake joins the greats
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17th February: TERATOLOGY: Polydactyly in Burma
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17th February: NATURAL HISTORY/POLITICS: Oll Lewis investigates an ancient political position
which goes back to the time of Henry VIII
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17th February: FORTEAN/NATURAL HISTORY: Jon quotes John Otway and muses on ancient fertility
festivals. As you do.
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17th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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16th February: TAXONOMY FAIL: New one from Simon Reames
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16th February: NATURAL HISTORY: New book on turtle physiology
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16th February: NATURAL HISTORY/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Interesting official announcement on the
statistics of mammalian extinction courtesy of Matt Salusbury
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16th February: CFZ ANIMALS: We have managed to breed Ilyodon xantusi at last (film)
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16th February: CFZ ANIMALS: The first film of our baby cultratus
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16th February: NATURAL HISTORY: The second half of our look at the development of twin orphaned koalas
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16th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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15th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Peculiar behaviour by a dusky thrush
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15th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Part One of a two part look at the development of two orphaned koalas, courtesy of Jan Edwards
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15th February: TAXONOMY FAIL: More Merryness from Max
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15th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Silly things misidentified as cryptids, courtesy of Richard Freeman
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15th February: NATURAL HISTORY: World's horniest ungulate, according to Robert Schneck
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15th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Cat People of Argentina
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15th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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14th February: CFZ ARTS: More animal furniture from Robert Schneck
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14th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman looks at the yeti in Assam
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14th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Agogwe rethink by Dale
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14th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Cryptic European bats, courtesy of Darren N
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14th February: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: More on Trader Horn
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14th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Bittersweet anniversary
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14th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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13th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/ZOOMYTHOLOGY: Beachcombing looks at the sex life of unicorns
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13th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Mystery aquatic creature (could it be a rotifer?)
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13th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen is still in South America
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13th February: CFZ PRESS: Nick Redfern enjoys the first volume of Haunted Skies
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13th February: POLITICS: The Government have postponed their selling of Britain's forests
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13th February: TAXONOMY FAIL: More from Max
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13th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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12th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker tells a remarkable story of the deep sea
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12th February: ARTS: More superb art courtesy of Robert
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12th February: FORTEAN: More on the `Trader Horn` movie
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12th February: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: The second part of the Muirhead/Vaudrey blog on the Cheadle
shark
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12th February: MOST PECULIAR: Richard presents, errrr Carnivorous Furniture
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12th February: ANIMAL WELFARE: Syd Henley calls for help for condemned corvids
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12th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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11th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/FORTEAN: Richard Freeman describes a classic cinematic work of
art
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11th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/FORTEAN: Strange Stopries from Geordieland courtesy of Mike
Hallowell
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11th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon on the marked hominid
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11th February: FORTEAN: Robert Schneck tells of giant beasts in North Dakota
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11th February: FORTEAN ZOOLOGY: A dreadful pun from Oll as he visits the cetacean nation
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11th February: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: Part 40 of the general fortean archives
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11th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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10th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Do mustelids really hypnotise their prey with a beguiling
display of terpsichorean skills?
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10th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Mystery bird
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10th February: ARTS: You have to hand it to Robert Schneck...
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10th February: EVENTS: The UFO Matrix conference
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10th February: DIE OFFS: Florida fishes
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10th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Harriet Wadham, bloggo stalwart, and her big sister Lily (13) are in the news and on the radio..
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10th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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9th February: TAXONOMY FAIL: More from Mighty Max
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9th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Another Bugfest Blog from kara
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9th February: FORTEAN: Another crypto con from Oll Lewis. This time it is the alien autopsy movie
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9th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Happy Birthday to Dr Chris Clark
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9th February: CONSERVATION: A group called `Fauna Forever` are now recruiting
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9th February: CFZ PRESS: Jon is laying out a new book and has come across an unfamiliar term.
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9th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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8th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Karl Shuker on mammothy things
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8th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Those of you with longish memories will remember how - two years
ago - we championed a 15 year old film maker called Jordan Warner. Well he's back...
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8th February: FORTEAN: Nick Redfern finds links between animal mutilations and other stuff
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8th February: TAXONOMY FAIL: A quite spectacular example courtesy of Lars
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8th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: A rare sighting courtesy of a French website
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8th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Once again, Glen is traversing the whole wide world
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8th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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7th February: FORTEAN/CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Richard Freeman on dragons
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7th February: CONSERVATION: An eco-comedy video competition
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7th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Do you remember last week when Nick Redfern wished that
something akin to `The Devil's Footprints` would appear in his snowy garden
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7th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Our old friend Kithra has had enough of Facebook (and who can blame her)
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7th February: NATURAL HISTORY: A magnificent beast is dead
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7th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon asks a ghoulish question
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7th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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6th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Max reviews a major new work on moas
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6th February: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENTAL: Redders is concerned about Cannock Chase
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6th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Bethany Wright was just a little girl last time we met
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6th February: NATURAL HISTORY/PECULIAR: Beth Tyler-King wants to know whether anyone has lost
a cat
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6th February: EXPLORATION: Lindsay Selby describes the exploration of a hitherto unknown lake
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6th February: NATURAL HISTORY: Shark/octopus interaction. Makes you wonder what the lusca could do
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6th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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5th February: NATURAL HISTORY: So this invertebrate turns up in some dude's aquarium..
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5th February: TAXONOMY FAIL: More from Max
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5th February: NATURAL HISTORY/FORTEAN: Richard Muirhead and Glen Vaudrey have been on the
track of a shark in inland Cheshire
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5th February: CFZ ARCHIVING PROJECT: The 39th tranche of fortean archives
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5th February: CFZ PEOPLE: It may not rain in southern California, but it can snow in Dallas
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5th February: NATURAL HISTORY: How do you fancy a holiday spent researching iguanas?
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5th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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4th February: FORTEAN: Karl Shuker in search of angelic feathers
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4th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Dale Drinnon looks at Packda, Kapre, Muwas, Waray-waray and
Omomongo: Probable Relic Orangutans of the Present-day Philippines
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4th February: CFZ PEOPLE: Pru climbs all over the Cornish Ghost Hunters
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4th February: VANISHING OF THE BEES: Official Trailer
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4th February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Glen Vaudrey continues his search for cryptids across the whole wide world
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4th February: NATURAL HISTORY: The saga of the knife livebearers trundles on
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4th February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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3rd February: NATURAL HISTORY: Karl Shuker says that it's all in a name
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3rd February: CFZ PEOPLE: A little Pharo has been born
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3rd February: NATURAL HISTORY: A fantastic job opportunity if you are into salamanders
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3rd February: FORTEAN: A load of old bull? Neil Arnold presents a twist on the black dog legends
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3rd February: CFZ PEOPLE: What have Nick Redfern and the late Gram Parsons got in common?
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3rd February: DIE OFFS: Another video
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3rd February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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2nd February: FORTEAN: Karl Shuker has the blues (literally not figuratively)
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2nd February: CFZtv: I managed to cock up the mastering of yesterday's episode of OTT, so here it is again (in widescreen). Thank you Maxy for pointing out my mistake
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2nd February: FORTEAN: Karl Shuker looks at a major new book
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2nd February: NATURAL HISTORY: Down at Walland Farm they are building a conservation lake
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2nd February: NATURAL HISTORY: The British Livebearer Association's forthcoming Guppy Weekend
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2nd February: CFZ PRESS: January's top tens
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2nd February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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1st February: CFZtv: A bumper edition of On The Track
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1st February: TAXONOMY FAIL: More from Maxy
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1st February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Muirhead's Mysteries is back with a California wildman.
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1st February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY/NATURAL HISTORY: Some interesting odds and sods from Chad
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1st February: CRYPTOZOOLOGY: Once again Glen Vaudrey goes the whole wide world
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1st February: CFZ PRESS: Coming soon
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1st February: CFZ NEWS SERVICE: Oll Lewis with Yesterday's News Today
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