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THE CURUPIRA - A SHUKERNATURE PICTURE OF THE DAY
'The Curupira' (Manoel Santiago, 1926)Here's something new for ShukerNature, which I plan to run as a regular series. Over the years, I have encountered all manner of unusual, noteworthy illustrations...
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MY VERY FIRST WHITE TIGER! - CAR BOOT SALES AND CRYPTOZOOLOGY #3
The eyecatching front cover of Bristol Zoo's late-1960s guidebook (Bristol Zoo Gardens/Dr Karl Shuker)One of the most delightful features of car boot sales, bric-a-brac fairs, and suchlike is the...
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CATS OF MAGIC, MYTHOLOGY, AND MYSTERY - IT'S HERE! AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER AT...
My latest book, Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery: A Feline Phantasmagoria (CFZ Press: Bideford, 2012), 322 pages long, almost 300 illustrations, and in full colour throughout, is now available to...
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A TWO-TAILED ALPINE IMPOSSIBEAST - A SHUKERNATURE PICTURE OF THE DAY
Even among the exceedingly diverse, and decidedly different, fauna of cryptozoology, occasionally there comes along what can only be described as a truly impossible beast - or, as I like to call such...
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SRI LANKA’S DEVIL BIRD – INVESTIGATING A DEVIL OF A MYSTERY
Highland nightjar - the secret identity of Sri Lanka's cryptic devil bird? (Shyamal/Wikipedia)Back in the early 1980s, one of the most popular TV series was ‘Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World’....
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THE SMILE ON THE FACE OF THE MANTICORE AND LEUCROCUTA
Manticore, from Edward Topsell's The History of Four-Footed Beasts (1607)“I know you,” whispered Strange again. “You are...You are...” He moved his hands through the empty air as if tracing magical...
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THE MEGALOPEDUS, THE SUKOTYRO, AND A VERY CRYPTIC CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
The sukotyro, as depicted in a colour engraving from 1812 (Dr Karl Shuker)In cryptozoology, it is always a delight to unearth accounts of hitherto-obscure mystery beasts from the archives of antiquity....
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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE? IN SEARCH OF THE WOODWOSE, EUROPE'S ELUSIVE MAN-BEAST
Captive wild man being tamed by virtuous woman - Swiss tapestry, late 1400sHomo sapiens was not the only species of human named and recognised by Linnaeus when publishing Systema Naturae, his...
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THE GOUROCK SEA SERPENT - METAPHORICALLY EXHUMING A LONG-BURIED CRYPTO-MYSTERY
Representation of the Gourock sea serpent carcase, based upon a sketch by eyewitness Charles Rankin (Dr Karl Shuker)The history of cryptozoology is embarrassingly well-supplied with classic cases of...
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THE GRIFFINS AND THE FROG RAIN
My grandmother Gertrude Timmins (with my dog Patch), who experienced a frog rain when she was a girl during the early 1900s (Dr Karl Shuker)One of the oddest enigmas of nature is the widely-reported...
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CATS OF MAGIC, MYTHOLOGY, AND MYSTERY IS NOW IN PRINT!
Yes, my latest book, Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery (CFZ Press: Bideford, 2012), is now in print! No more pre-ordering - now, nicely in time for Christmas, it can be directly ordered and...
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UNEARTHING THE EARTH HOUND - A CORPSE-DEVOURING CRYPTID FROM SCOTLAND
Behold, the earth hound! (Shaun Histed-Todd)"Without a doubt, this must be the book of the year. Even before one opens the cover up the sheer quality of the publication grabs you. It is plush and...
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SYLVIORNIS AND THE DYNASTY OF THE DU
A reconstruction of the possible appearance in life of Sylviornis neocaledoniae, aka the du (Tim Morris)Whereas most birds incubate their eggs simply by sitting on them, thereby directly harnessing...
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HERE'S HIPPOTURTLEOX - THE HORNED MONSTER OF TIBET'S LAKE DUOBUZHE
Detailed reconstruction of the possible appearance in life of the hippoturtleox (Tim Morris)Due to the political situation, much of Tibet's terrain and freshwater bodies of water are little-known or...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH CFZ AUSTRALIA
Proudly wearing my Great Barrier Reef Australia shirt from 2006 alongside a thylacine painting in my study (Dr Karl Shuker)I was recently interviewed by Rebecca Lang of CFZ Australia for their...
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GOODBYE, IVAN - MY TRIBUTE TO IVAN MACKERLE, 1942-2013
It was with great sorrow that I learnt earlier this week that Ivan Mackerle, the Czech Republic's pre-eminent cryptozoological and Fortean researcher-explorer as well as a longstanding friend and...
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GOING APE ABOUT THE KOOLOOKAMBA
Late 19th-Century engraving of Mafuka, the most famous koolookamba specimenNot a single verified example of a hybrid between a chimpanzee and gorilla has ever been recorded by science - which is why...
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SHUKERNATURE'S TOP TEN LIVING DINOSAURS OF CRYPTOZOOLOGY
Spectacular painting of the mokele-mbembe (William Rebsamen)Time for another ShukerNature Top Ten!Today, the only known living dinosaurs are of the avian variety – birds. However, the chronicles of...
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EVEN MORE SKY BEASTS - RETURN OF THE LIVING UFOS?
Artistic representation of sky beasts (Tim Morris)In previous ShukerNature blog posts (click here and here), I have examined the remarkable theory put forward independently by several ufologists down...
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A BABY CHUPACABRA? YOU'RE HAVING A LAUGH – OR A GAFF!!
A baby chupacabra? Read on…!!The chupacabra is unquestionably one of the most famous and iconic mystery beasts of modern-day cryptozoology. So when a photograph purportedly depicting a mummified baby...
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