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A FROG AS BIG AS A GOAT - THE MOST MYSTIFYING LOCH NESS MONSTER SIGHTING EVER?
Might the bizarre-sounding cryptid allegedly encountered by diver Duncan Macdonald while underwater in LochNess during the late 19th Century have looked something like this? (© Richard Svensson)Of all...
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GIANT BIRDS FROM THE TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS
Depiction of the bennu (© Jeff Dahl/Wikipedia GFDL licence)The phoenix may be the most famous feathered mystery associated with ancient Egypt - but it is not the only one. Equally mystifying is the...
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GENERAL GORDON AND THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE - A BOTANICAL FOLLY OF BIBLICAL...
The Fairy smiled, and led him into a large and lofty room, the walls of which appeared transparent... In the middle of the room stood a tree, with luxuriant hanging branches, on which golden apples,...
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REMEMBERING PEDRO – THE MISSING MINI-MUMMY OF WYOMING
Two views of Pedro plus one of his x-rays from 1950 (Wikipedia/public domain)In a two-part ShukerNature article (click here and here) from 2009, I documented a wide range of accounts concerning...
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LINNAEUS'S HELLISH FURY WORM - THE HISTORY (AND MYSTERY) OF A NON-EXISTENT...
'Swamp Critter' (© Andrew Scott)Certainly, had Dr Clarke been stung by the furia infernalis at the moment that he expressed his disbelief of its existence, one would be almost tempted to think that the...
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CARL MEETS A BLUE DEVIL IN BELIZE
Photograph of the elusive blue devil (© Carl Portman)No, I haven't spelt my name incorrectly in the title of this present ShukerNature blog article. The Carl referred to here is not me, but is instead...
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THE STOA, THE SUWA, AND THE WASHORIWE – A TRIO OF PREHISTORIC SURVIVORS FROM...
Front and back cover from my much-read, greatly-treasured 1970s paperback edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic crypto-novel The Lost World (Cover illustration © Pan Books – reproduced here on a...
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A QUINTET OF QUAGGA PHOTOGRAPHS
A very attractive colourised version of one of the five known photographs of a living quagga (colourising © Michael/Flickr CC BY 2.0 licence)The quagga Equus quagga quagga was formerly the southernmost...
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DREDGING UP SOME LIVING TRILOBITES?
Large-scale model of the 'Dudley bug' trilobite Calymene blumenbachii (© Dr Karl Shuker)One of the best-known groups of fossil animal are the trilobites ('three-lobed'), this name deriving from the...
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THE CAMBODIAN 'STEGOSAUR' - AN ANACHRONISM FROM ANGKOR WAT?
The enigmatic Cambodian 'stegosaur' glyph at Ta Prohm, AngkorWat, with the external decorative plate motif clearly visible encircling its circle's outer perimeter (© John and Lesley Burke)Mystery...
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RECALLING SHUKER'S LORICIFERAN – MY VERY OWN MINI-BEAST
Caroline Gast's exquisite illustration of Pliciloricus enigmaticus, a close relative of Shuker's loriciferan P. shukeri (public domain)Eleven years ago, I was very honoured to receive what must surely...
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HERE'S NESSIE! – MY LOCH NESS MONSTER BOOK IS PUBLISHED!
Here's Nessie! A Monstrous Compendium From Loch Ness– my 24th book, now in print (© Dr Karl Shuker/CFZ Press)It is all thanks to my mother Mary Shuker taking me as a child to the town of Walsall in the...
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A BLENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS - HEUVELMANS'S MIDGET BLENNY (AS WAS), TO BE PRECISE
Side view of the Caneva combtooth blenny (public domain)True blennies (aka blennioids, to distinguish them from a range of other, only distantly-related fishes also frequently dubbed 'blennies') are...
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TURNING UP LIKE A BAD BLENNY - A SMALL BUT DEADLY MIDDLE EASTERN MYSTERY FISH?
Three (un)usual suspects as the identity of the Shatt-al-Arab's venomous mystery fish – the Asian stinging catfish (top); the long-tailed moray eel (centre), and the bull shark (bottom) (public...
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PHONEY PHOTOS OF THE THUNDERBIRD AND BIGFOOT KIND - SHOOTING DOWN ANOTHER TWO...
A fake 'shot thunderbird' photo (above) and a fake 'shot bigfoot' photo (below) (creator unknown to me / © Kryptomaniacle – included here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis only)I recently...
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THE VEGETABLE LAMB OF TARTARY - HALF PLANT, HALF ANIMAL, WHOLLY AMAZING!
Vegetable lamb, Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch, 1806 (public domain)Feeding on grass, and th'airy moisture lickingSuch as those Borometz of Scythia bredOf slender seeds, and with green fodder...
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THE BIS-COBRA – INDIA'S VENOMOUS LIZARD THAT NEVER WAS
First edition of EHA's delightful book, The Tribes On My Frontier (public domain)Snakes of all kinds are held in great horror by the natives of India, and they slay indiscriminately and ruthlessly all...
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STILL IN SEARCH OF PREHISTORIC SURVIVORS - AFTER 21 YEARS, THE WAIT IS...
It has been 21 years since the original publication back in 1995 of In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, considered by many to be my finest cryptozoological volume. Not surprisingly, then, in subsequent...
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SHUKERNATURE EXCLUSIVES – THE ONLY STORE FOR OFFICIAL SHUKERNATURE MERCHANDISE
ShukerNature t-shirt (© Dr Karl Shuker/Zazzle)Several years ago, I opened a store on Zazzle's website, but I didn't do a great deal with it – until now. Renaming it ShukerNature Exclusives, I've...
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DEBUNKING THE DISCOVERY OF A DEAD DRAGON
Stills available online from a 'mockumentary' b/w video showing the supposed discovery of a dead dragon - click stills to enlarge (© Cuarto Milenio – reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair...
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