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THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE BOTTLED SEA SERPENT – OR, WHEN IS A GIANT EEL LARVA...
An anguilline Norwegian seaserpent (sea-orm) depicted on Swedish cleric Olaus Magnus's famous antiquarian maritime map of 1539, the Carta MarinaOne of cryptozoology's most enigmatic episodes is...
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GIANT BLUE EELS OF THE GANGES - WORMING OUT A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION?
Reconstruction of the possible appearance of India's giant blue eelsThe ancient chroniclers of natural history documented as factual a considerable number of extremely strange, mysterious creatures...
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THE HAIRY OCTOPUS – WEIRD AMONG THE WEEDS, AND STILL UNDESCRIBED BY SCIENCE
Click here to watch this superb video clip of the hairy octopus, as filmed by Christian Loader for Eco Divers Resort Lembeh (click hereto access their fantastic website!) and uploaded onto YouTube by...
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A JUMBO-SIZED REVELATION FROM CHINA - STRAIGHT-TUSKED ELEPHANTS IN HISTORIC...
Models of straight-tusked elephants Palaeoloxodon (© Apotea/Wikipedia)As recently as 3000 years ago, elephants were still living wild in northern China, which may come as something of a surprise to...
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PHANTOM WHITE DOGS AND CELTIC FAIRY HOUNDS
A fairy hound, one of the Cwn Annwn - the hounds of Annwn, the Celtic Otherworld (© Simon Wyatt)Characterised by their sable-hued pelage, blazing red eyes, spectral nature, and their traditional...
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THE MENAGERIE OF MARVELS IS HERE!! – MY TRILOGY OF BOOKS ON EXTRAORDINARY...
My newly-published, 21st book – The Menagerie of Marvels (© Dr Karl Shuker/CFZ Press)Until recently, I hadn't fully realised that the vast majority of my 21 published books consist of pairs or...
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MONKEYING AROUND WITH THE MIMICK DOG
Woodcut of the mimick dog, from Edward Topsell's bestiary, The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastesand Serpents (1658)European and Middle Eastern medieval mythology is populated not only by such famous...
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TRACKING THE TURUL – HUNGARY'S PREMIER MYTHOLOGICAL BIRD
Sepia postcard dated 1927, depicting a statue of the turul bearing the crown of Attila the Hun, and located near Tatabánya in Hungary (Dr Karl Shuker)Back in the good years of my life, when my dear...
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SEEKING THE MISSING THUNDERBIRD PHOTOGRAPH - ONE OF CRYPTOZOOLOGY'S MOST...
Could this very striking photograph of a large marabou stork standing upright with long beak open, huge wings held outstretched, and flanked by human figures have influenced some observers into later...
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SURREAL SYNCEPHALI – A TRIPLICATE LAMB FROM HUNGARY, AND RIPLEY'S...
Engraving of an extraordinary triple-bodied, single-headed lamb that reputedly existed in Hungary in 1620Many years ago, a correspondent sent me a photocopy of the remarkable engraving that opens this...
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ARNOLD'S GIANT TORTOISE AND THE HOLOLISSA OF SEYCHELLES - LONG FORGOTTEN, BUT...
Aldabra giant tortoise (left) and hololissa (right) at CotswoldsWildlifePark, showing shell differences (© Dr Karl Shuker)The New World giant tortoises famously inhabiting the Galapagos Islands off...
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THE RETURN OF MOTTY, THE MIRACLE HYBRID ELEPHANT - UNVEILING SOME...
Motty and his mother at Chester Zoo, July 1978 (© Mike Poustie, c/o Chris Poustie)In an earlier ShukerNature article (click here). I documented the birth and tragically-short but zoologically-immortal,...
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MOTTY AS AN ADULT? – IS THIS WHAT THE WORLD'S ONLY INTERGENERIC HYBRID...
Motty as a calf (above) and a photo-manipulated image (below) of what he may have looked like had he survived to adulthood (photo courtesy of Derek G. Lyon/Chester Zoo; photo-manipulation by Paul...
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SPIDERS WITH WINGS? IMPLAUSIBLE THINGS!
Never in the long and very diverse history of spiders – a very significant arachnid order (Araneae) whose lineage dates back more than 300 million years according to the known fossil record – has there...
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THE CAMP FIRCOM CADDY CARCASE - MONSTER OR MONTAGE? - REVIEWING A...
The two picture postcards (#1 top, #2 bottom) depicting the CampFircom Caddy carcase (public domain/FPL)Few cryptozoologists will be unaware of the Naden Harbour carcase – an enigmatic serpentine...
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BOTHERSOME BEITHIRS AND OTHER FRESHWATER MYSTERY EELS?
Delightful depiction of Nessie as a giant eel (© Richard Pullen)I have already discussed on ShukerNature the prospect that certain serpentiform sea monsters might be still-undiscovered giant marine...
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'IF ONLY...' - IN MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, MARY SHUKER (1921-2013)
(Above and below) Mom and I at Hong Kong's Cat Street Markets/Galleries, summer 2005 (© Dr Karl Shuker)Please click: Star Steeds and Other Dreams: IF ONLY...
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FROM LAMBTON WORMS AND SHAGGY BEASTS TO SOUP DRAGONS AND Q – A...
Official movie poster from the 1982 film Q – The Winged Serpent (© Larry Cohen (dir.)/United Film Distribution Company)As the author of two books on dragons – Dragons: A Natural History(1995) and...
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EXPOSING THE 'DEAD BIGFOOT PHOTO' - THE BEAR FACTS AT LAST! - A SHUKERNATURE...
The infamous 'dead bigfoot photo' (origin unknown)On 21 November 2006, after having received it from a reader with the user name 'captiannemo', Craig Woolheater posted on Cryptomundo the very...
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PHANTOM WHITE DOGS AND CELTIC FAIRY HOUNDS
A fairy hound, one of the Cwn Annwn - the hounds of Annwn, the Celtic Otherworld (© Simon Wyatt)Characterised by their sable-hued pelage, blazing red eyes, spectral nature, and their traditional...
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