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IT'S THE BIGGEST AMBLYPYGID IN THE WORLD! WHIPPING UP SOME INTEREST IN WHIP...
Exquisite engraving from 1898 of Phrynus tessellatus, a Caribbean species of amblypygid or tailless whip scorpion (public domain)Readers of a certain age (i.e. my own or older) will probably recognise...
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PITCHING IN WITH NEWS OF A GIANT MYSTERY PITCHER PLANT
Do truly gargantuan pitcher plants, bearing pitchers far greater and more capacious in size than those of any species currently known to science, still await formal discovery and description? (public...
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A MEETING WITH MEDUSA - VISITING VALENCE HOUSE MUSEUM'S 'DINOSAURS,...
A meeting with Medusa: here am I in an almost too-close-for-comfort encounter with Greek mythology's most (in)famous gorgon - notice how I am taking good care not to look her in the eye...This is Ray...
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DEMYSTIFYING THE DODO OF NAZARETH
An adult female specimen of the dodo's closest relative, the Rodrigues solitaire, as drawn in 1708 by French explorer François Leguat and thereby constituting the only illustration of this now-extinct...
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A NEW DAWN FOR THE SUN DOG?
A pre-Inca Peruvian depiction of the New World's mythical sun dog (public domain)Continuing my intermittent series of early cryptozoological and other anomalous animal articles of mine reproduced here...
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REMEMBERING THE ANDEAN WOLF - A WOLF IN SHEEPDOG'S CLOTHING?
Artist reconstruction of the Andean wolf's possible appearance in life (artist identity and © unknown to me, image present here on The Full Wiki; reproduced here on ShukerNature upon a strictly...
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WOLVES, JACKALS, COYOTES, AND SOME VERY UNUSUAL 'HILL FOXES' - EXPLORING...
Contemporary picture postcard depicting the infamous Hexham (Allendale) wolf, from my personal collection (© Dr Karl Shuker)Whereas Britain's unofficial feline fauna has attracted immense attention...
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HEARKENING BACK TO THE HAZELWORM
Beautiful 19th-Century chromolithograph of the remarkable phenomenon nowadays believed by zoologists to be the true explanation for bygone reports of the hazelworm (public domain)One of the most...
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THE AHOOL AND THE OLITIAU – GIANT MYSTERY BATS ON THE WING?
Photograph of hammer-headed bat currently doing the online rounds on social media (© owner presently unknown to me – reproduced here in a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis for educational, review...
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GOODBYE AND GODSPEED, BOB - REMEMBERING MY LONGSTANDING ONLINE FRIEND AND...
The photograph of my senmurv jardiniere that Bob had long used as his profile picture on Facebook (© Dr Karl Shuker)I was extremely sad to learn yesterday that my longstanding online friend and fellow...
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REVIEWING 'THE MEG'– JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE CINEMA!
A publicity poster for The Meg (© Warner Bros. Pictures/Gravity Pictures/Flagship Entertainment/Apelles Entertainment/Di Bonaventura Pictures/maeday Productions – reproduced here on a strictly...
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THORNY-TAILED CATS AND A DOMESTIC MANTICORE
A winged manticore with a decidedly scorpionesque sting-tipped tail, depicted on the front cover of Piers Anthony's novel A Spell For Chameleon– one of my all-time favourite fantasy novels, and the...
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GOING WILD OVER GWR'S 'WILD THINGS'– THE ANIMAL WORLD'S MOST AMAZING...
Guinness World Records: Wild Things(© Guinness World Records/GWR: Wild Things)In addition to the 26 books that I have written myself and seen published (#26 is due out shortly), I have also acted as a...
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CONTINENT-SWAPPING WITH THE BOGOTA CAT AND WARWICK'S CAT
Geoffroy's cat – the doubly-deceiving feline bête noire of British zoologist John Edward Gray; illustration from Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny's Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale, published in 1847...
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SEEKING THE SHAMANU - IS JAPAN'S LITTLE HOWLING GOD TRULY EXTINCT?
Carl Hubert de Villeneuve's sketch of German botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold's captive shamanu, which he had purchased in 1826; sketch produced sometime during 1826-1830 (public domain)According to...
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BLACK-AND-WHITE ...AND WEIRD ALL OVER - SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF THE STRIPED...
Magnificent painting portraying William Beebe's striped manta ray (© William M. Rebsamen)In 1999, my book Mysteries of Planet Earth became the first cryptozoologically-oriented book to include a...
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'LOFTY ABODES', BY PHILIPPA FOSTER – A REVIEW
Front cover of Lofty Abodes by Philippa Foster (Text and cover artwork © Philippa Foster)Over the years, I have been very fortunate and privileged that a number of my cryptozoological articles and...
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REMEMBERING THE BEAST OF BODALOG - A WELSH WATER VAMPIRE?
Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains...Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord...
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TRAILING THE HOUNDS OF HELL - BLACK DOGS, WISH HOUNDS, AND OTHER CANINE...
There stood a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon. And even as they looked the thing tore the throat out of Hugo...
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CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF SHUKERNATURE, VIA ITS ALL-TIME TOP TEN ARTICLES
My ShukerNature blog's official banner, very kindly designed for me by Mark North (© Dr Karl Shuker)Yes indeed – this week is a very momentous occasion in the history of my ShukerNature blog, because...
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