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DRACULA, VAN HELSING, AND GIANT SPIDERS IN THE CATHEDRAL
Official movie poster for the 1979 horror film Nosferatu the Vampyre (© Werner Herzog Filmproduktion/20th Century Fox – reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis only)A few weeks ago,...
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GREEN GROW THE TIGERS, O – AT LEAST IN VIETNAM?
Here's one I made earlier - a green tiger created by me via computerised photo-manipulation (© Dr Karl Shuker)Quoting from a previous ShukerNature blog article of mine (click hereto read it):In various...
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IS THE OZENKADNOOK TIGER A CARDBOARD CRYPTID?
The (in)famous Ozenkadnook tiger photograph (copyright owner's identity presently ambiguous, it would seem - see below - although traditionally attributed to Rilla Martin)One of cryptozoology's most...
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THE LOCUST OF KALISZ? MORE LIKE A DALI-ESQUE DEATHSHEAD!
Close-up of the so-called 'Locust of Kalisz' drawing, contained in the scrapbook album compiled and given by friends to General Joachim Daniel von Jauch as a birthday present sometime during the early...
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IS NOSFERATU AN ILLUMINATED VAMPIRE?
Is the devil – or vampire – in the detail? Close-up of the mysterious, sinister-looking entity lurking in the upper margin of folio 28v from the Sankt Florian Psalter (public domain)Just in case you're...
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HOW A GIANT SNAKE BECAME A SPIKY SEASHELL – WELCOME TO THE MAUSOLEUM OF MONSTERS
One of several artworks by Swiss painter Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) with a cryptozoological connection – Reiter Von Riesenschlange Überfallen ('Horseman Attacked By A Giant Snake'); watercolour, painted...
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A PICTURE OF MONKEY BUSINESS - OR, HOW A SMALL FURRY PET BECAME A GIANT...
Cropped version of Dr François de Loys's photograph of the supposed South American ape Ameranthropoides loysi– one of the most controversial cryptozoological images of all time (public domain)There...
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A PICTURE OF MONKEY BUSINESS - OR, HOW A SMALL FURRY PET BECAME A GIANT...
The uncropped version of Dr François de Loys's photograph of the supposed South American ape Ameranthropoides loysi– one of the most controversial cryptozoological images of all time (public...
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CUBANACAN THE LITIGON - REDISCOVERING A LONG-LOST PHOTOGRAPH OF A TRULY...
The rediscovered photograph of Cubanacan the litigon, seen here fully grown (© Alipore Zoo, reproduction courtesy of Dr Ashish Kumar Samanta and Ms Piyali Chattopadhyay Sinha, respectively the Director...
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RECALLING LONDON ZOO'S LIJAGUPARD - THE SUBJECT OF A (VERY) CROSSBRED...
Frederick W. Frohawk's exquisite illustration of the Londonlijagupard (public domain)In my previous ShukerNature blog article (click here), I drew attention to a very remarkable, and extremely...
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FLYING PIGS - IN PURSUIT OF PIGASUS AND OTHER PORKERS ON THE WING!
Behold, Pigasus! (public domain)"The time has come," the Walrus said,To talk of many things:Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax -Of cabbages - and kings -And why the sea is boiling hot -And whether...
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SPOUTING FORTH ABOUT THE GARGOUILLE - A LETHAL WATER-SPURTING DRAGON FROM THE...
Flooding the land with limitless liquid, France's water-spouting gargouille was just as deadly as its more familiar fire-breathing brethren (public domain)*When preparing my first book on dragons,...
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THE JAWS OF MEGALODON - SHARK OF NIGHTMARE...AND REALITY?
Artistic impression of a megalodon encounter (© William M. Rebsamen)It was only ever going to be a matter of time before ShukerNature boldly went where it has never gone before, by confronting what may...
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NEW ZEALAND'S KAWEKAWEAU AND DELCOURT'S UNIQUE MEGA-GECKO - THE REMARKABLE...
Are Delcourt's giant gecko and New Zealand's mythical kawekaweau one and the same? (© Markus Bühler)The largest species of gecko known to exist today in New Zealand is Duvaucel's gecko Hoplodactylus...
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THE ONZA HERESY - UNMASKING A MYSTERY CAT FROM MEXICO?
The Rodriguez onza (© International Society of Cryptozoology – permission to reproduce in my writings granted to me in perpetuity by J. Richard Greenwell, ISC Secretary)For zoologists, the year 1986...
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DREAMCHILD AND VAMPIRES AND HOBBITS, OH MY! [an Eclectarium of Doctor Shuker...
'Kong: Skull Island' publicity poster and film still (© Jordan Vogt-Roberts/Legendary Pictures/Tencent Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures)I've viewed quite a number of fantasy-themed movies lately, some...
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REMEMBERING TREVOR BEER - FROM EXMOOR BEASTS TO WOLVERINES
Trevor Beer MBE (1937-2017) – conservationist, naturalist, cryptozoologist, artist, author, and a longstanding friend of mine (© Trevor Beer)In June 2017, I was greatly saddened to lose one of my...
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AMAZING ANIMALS IN AN AMAZING NEW BOOK!
Guinness World Records: Amazing Animals 2018 (© Guinness)In addition to the 25 (soon to be 26) books that I have written myself and seen published, I have also acted as a consultant and/or contributor...
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MY INTERVIEW FOR 'THE X FACTOR' - NO, NOT 'THAT' ONE!
Publicity photograph of me with cast of a fossil dinosaur footprint, as featured in my X Factor interview (© Dr Karl Shuker)Several years before a certain music talent show of the same name first...
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A LYING LION AND AN ANACONDA CON - EXPOSING SOME MORE FAKE ANIMAL PHOTOS ONLINE
A genuine photograph of the green anaconda Eunectes murinus– the largest and most familiar of the four species of anaconda currently recognised by science (© Wagnermeier/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 3.0...
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