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DEEPLY DIPPY OVER DIPLOCAULUS
Traditional boomerang-headed restoration of Diplocaulus (public domain)Up to 3 ft long, superficially salamander-like in basic form, but belonging to the long-extinct nectridean taxonomic order within...
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WALT DISNEY AND THE BLACK PUMA THAT NEVER WAS
What are North America's mystery black panthers – escapee/released melanistic leopards, or native all-black pumas? (© William Rebsamen)Time to debunk another crypto-controversy, though in this case...
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HORNING IN ON THE UNICORN SNAKE
Hoax unicorn snake - photo-manipulation to demonstrate what such an exhibit would have looked like (© Dr Karl Shuker)During the Middle Ages and even several centuries later, explorers and travellers to...
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MEET THE MONSTROUS MAKALALA - A TANZANIAN TERROR BIRD?
Reconstruction of the makalala's possible appearance in life (© Markus Bühler)Here's something suitable for Hallowe'en from the cryptozoological chronicles – a monster bird with a taste for...
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AN AWOL ARGUS PHEASANT?
Beautiful painting of a male great argus pheasant by Daniel Giraud Elliot (public domain)Evidence for the erstwhile reality of the double-banded argus pheasant Argusianus bipunctatus, one of the...
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SHOOTING DOWN A PTERODACTYLIAN THUNDERBIRD – OR AT LEAST A SUPPOSED...
Sourced at last – this oft-posted online photograph of a supposed pterodactylian thunderbird shot by hunters (© Chris Smith, all rights reserved by him; NB – this picture is reproduced here on a...
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THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT HAIRLESS HYAENAS, AND THE CHUPACABRA CONNECTION
The original version of the Charles Hamilton Smith/William Home Lizars illustration of the Nubian naked hyaena that appeared as Plate 27 inVolume II of The Natural History of Dogs...Including Also the...
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FROM MINI-REX TO MOON COW – UNRAVELLING THE RIDDLE OF AMERICA'S MODERN-DAY...
Photograph allegedly depicting a shot mini-rex or 'river lizard' held by an unidentified figure - emailed by 'Derick' to Chad Arment in April 2000 (copyright owner unknown/identity and current location...
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FROM STAR WARS TO SMITHFIELD - THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MEDIEVAL YODA MONK
The Yoda lookalike figure from the Smithfield Decretals (public domain)The long-awaited latest Star Wars film – Episode VII: The Force Awakens– was released this week, so it seems timely to upload onto...
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MONKEYS IN AUSTRALIA? REVISITING A FORGOTTEN FURRY MYSTERY DOWN UNDER
An early lithograph of the spotted cuscus – the identity of Cape York Peninsula's mystery monkeys? (public domain)Zoologically speaking, Australia is most famous for its marsupials (pouched mammals)...
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QUEMI, SPANISH RACCOON, MINI-SOLENODON, AND NESOPHONTIDS - A QUARTET OF...
The western Cuban nesophontid Nesophontes micrus as portrayed on a Cuban postage stamp issued in 1982 (© Cuban postal service)Prior to their discovery and colonisation by Europeans, the West Indies in...
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LET'S ALL LOOK OUT FOR THE LAVELLAN
A 19th-Century painting of some aquatic shrews (public domain)In an earlier ShukerNature blog article, I documented a quite small and little-known but thoroughly fascinating if somewhat macabre mystery...
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HOW AN AUSTRALIAN VAMPIRE BECAME THE JERSEY DEVIL
The Jersey devil (© Richard Svensson)For various reasons, it has been quite some time since I last blogged here on ShukerNature. But for many other reasons, which have illuminated my life during the...
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THE YUKON BEAVER EATER, AND GROUND SLOTHS IN NEW ZEALAND?
Restoration of Megatherium (Wikipedia/Public domain)When we think of sloths, we generally picture those famously sluggish, dog-sized, tree-dwelling beasts that spend much of their time hanging...
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PROF. HENRY BAUER REVIEWS A MANIFESTATION OF MONSTERS IN THE JOURNAL OF...
Below is a very positive review of my recent book A Manifestation of Monsters, which has just appeared in the Journal of Scientific Exploration(vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 133-134, 2016), and was penned by...
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUEQUE? SEEKING THE LOST LLAMA OF CHILE
Vidaurre's engraving from 1776 depicting four of the five South American camelids once recognised – llama (top left), hueque aka Chilihueque (top right), vicuna (bottom left), guanaco (bottom right)...
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WHITE MICE, BUMBLEBEES, AND ALIEN WORMS? UNEXPECTED MINI-MONSTERLINGS IN LOCH...
White mice on the bottom of LochNess? Surely not… lol (public domain)On 20 September 1981, an article penned by George Rosie on the subject of some very intriguing mystery beasts in miniature that had...
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FROM BARGUEST AND BOOBRIE TO BLUE MEN OF THE MINCH - A SHUKERNATURE TOP 12...
A Blue Man of the Minch (I found this image online some time ago, unsourced and uncredited, but it looks like it may be a modified version – by person(s) unknown – of a picture from highly-acclaimed...
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AN AMERICAN MYSTERY BLACK CAT DEPICTED IN A FAMOUS MODERN-DAY PAINTING
'Story Told By My Mother', painted in 1955 by Carroll Cloar (© Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA– reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis only)In various previous...
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A DREAMTIME DROMEDARY? NOT REALLY, BUT STILL A ONE-HUMPED WONDER DOWN UNDER!
Dromedary in the desert (public domain)Australia is renowned as a land of strange animals, both in the living world and in aboriginal Dreamtime lore. Marsupials, monotremes, monsters, and more, drawn...
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