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HOLY GOAT! – IT'S PSEUDONOVIBOS!
Dr Maurizio Dioli holding a Pseudonovibos spiralis frontlet (© Dr Maurizio Dioli)During the 1990s, a startling array of new and rediscovered species of ungulate were revealed in Indochina. Whereas the...
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A TENACIOUS PTERODACTYL, OR A CRYPTIC CANARD? RECALLING A CLASSIC CASE OF...
Did a living pterodactyl emerge from a blasted-apart hollow boulder in 19th-Century France? (© Dr Karl Shuker)It can be all too easy to forget sometimes that just because in over 40 years of...
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SEEKING NEODINOSAURS IN NEW GUINEA
Life-sized statue representing the postulated appearance in life of Therizinosaurus(© Dr Karl Shuker)North of Australia is the extremely large island of New Guinea, still plentifully supplied with...
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LATE SURVIVAL OF THE LOST AUK? GAREFOWL, GREAT AUKS, AND A PARADOX OF PENGUINS
Tom the water-baby meeting the last of the great auks or garefowl – an exquisite painting by Warwick Goble for an illustrated 1909 edition of Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, which is one of my...
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SEALING THE IDENTITY OF AN ALLEGED STELLER'S SEA-COW SKIN
Steller's sea-cows with Kotick the white seal – an 1895 engraving for 'The White Seal', from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (public domain)"By the Great Combers of Magellan!" he said, beneath his...
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PUBLISHED TODAY! – SHUKERNATURE BOOK 1: ANTLERED ELEPHANTS, LOCUST DRAGONS,...
Hot off the press – with magnificent front-cover artwork by Anthony Wallis, here is my very first ShukerNature book! (© Dr Karl Shuker/Coachwhip Publications)If I wish to read a blog which is *only*...
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THE IRISH WILDCAT - AN ENIGMA FROM THE EMERALD ISLE
Sketch of the head of a European wildcat Felis silvestris (© Dr Karl Shuker)Unlike Great Britain, relatively few reports emerge from Ireland concerning mystery cats of the very large puma-like or black...
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THE STRANGE SAGA OF THE PARROT WORLD'S SEA-GREEN SCARLET PIMPERNEL - DOES THE...
Digital creation of glaucous macaws, by Andrés González (© Andrés González/Wikipedia - CC BY-SA 3.0 licence)Most ornithologists currently recognise 17 species of living macaw. However, there are...
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WHEN NANDI BEARS AND GROUND SLOTHS CAME TO TOWN? TWO EARLY EXHIBITIONS OF...
Could modern-day chalicotheres occasionally emerging from the Nandi and KakamegaForests' dense, shadowy interior explain reports of the formidable Nandi bear? Depicted here are two life-sized Anisodon...
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GAMBO, THE GAMBIAN SEA SERPENT - OR, HOW A VERY MYSTERIOUS STRANGER ON THE...
Artistic reconstruction of Owen Burnham's discovery of the Gambian sea serpent carcase (© William M. Rebsamen)Doesn't time fly when you're having fun?! As I write this introduction to the present...
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BURNHAM'S BEASTS - THE SECRET WILDLIFE OF SENEGAMBIA
What strange, secretive, and sometimes even sinister creatures of cryptozoology – or even of something else entirely – might still lurk undetected by science amid the shadowy depths of forbidding...
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SHUNKA WARAK'IN, RINGDOCUS, GUYASTICUTUS, ROCKY MOUNTAIN HYAENA – A TANGLE OF...
Enlargement photograph of a picture postcard of The Beast displayed alongside its glass case (photograph © Shane Lea)Last month, a friend of mine informed me that just a few years ago he had been...
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KIPLING AND KARAIT - AN OPHIDIAN BUNGLE IN THE JUNGLE BOOK?
Exquisite illustration of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the mongoose and an unspecified Indian snake, from a 1924 French edition of The Jungle Book (public domain)…when Teddy came running down the path, Rikki-tikki...
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THE SIRENS OF ST HELENA
Alongside a manatee statue at Sea World in San Diego, California (© Dr Karl Shuker)Those highly-modified aquatic mammals known as the sirenians or sea-cows, represented today by the manatees and...
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THE BLOOD-DRINKING 'DEATH BIRDS' OF ETHIOPIA - ON SILENT, SINISTER WINGS THEY...
Assuming that they do exist, just what ARE the terrifying 'death birds' of Ethiopia (© Ben Male)The little-known cryptozoological case of the Ethiopian 'death bird' is unremittingly macabre and...
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A DECAPITATED UNICORN FROM SOUTH AFRICA - ANOTHER LONG-OVERLOOKED...
The colour drawing of the creature's head, from Rev. John Campbell's book Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the London Missionary Society; Being a Narrative of a Second Journey to...
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FINDING A FOSSIL NANDI BEAR? - OR, SIMBAKUBWA VS CHEMOSIT
Reconstruction of the likely appearance in life of Simbakubwa kutokaafrika (© Mauricio Anton/Ohio University/AFP/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 4.0 and also a Wikipedia Commons-available image– but reproduced...
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THE SIX-LEGGED SEA SERPENT OF STRONSAY - STILL BASKING IN CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL...
Modern-day artistic representation of what the Stronsay beast might have looked like if it had literally resembled in life the eyewitness descriptions of it in death (© Tim Morris)Down through the...
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SHUKERNATURE BOOK 2 IS HERE! LIVING GORGONS, BOTTLED HOMUNCULI, AND OTHER...
ShukerNatureBook 2 is here! – which also just so happens to be Book #30, my 30th published book in 31 years of cryptozoological research and writing (and not counting those many additional volumes for...
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MORE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MOTTY - THE ELEPHANT OF SURPRISE AS NEVER BEFORE SEEN
Motty with his mother Sheba at Chester Zoo in 1978 (© Dave Haynes)On 1 March 2011, I uploaded here on ShukerNature an expanded version of an article of mine that had previously been published by the...
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