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THE DOBHAR-CHÚ - TRAILING IRELAND'S MYSTERIOUS MASTER OTTER. Part 2:...
Artistic representation of the dobhar-chú or master otter, based upon traditional Irish folklore (© Philippa Foster)In Part 1 of this ShukerNature article (click hereto read it), I recalled the...
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'WOLFEN' VS 'THE WOLFEN'– COMPARING AND CONTRASTING A CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL MOVIE...
Front cover of my copy of Whitley Strieber's fascinating novel The Wolfen, upon which the movie Wolfen was loosely based; this is the 1992 resissue of Coronet Books' 1979 paperback edition (© Whitley...
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SNAKES ALIVE! ARE THERE SERPENTS IN NEW ZEALAND?
An Australian pygmy copperhead Austrelaps labialis– but do non-native specimens of Austrelaps species also thrive in the wilds of New Zealand? (© Person/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 3.0 licence)I'm always on...
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MIGO? REVISITING THE MONSTER OF LAKE DAKATAUA. Part...
Model of the zeuglodontine archaeocete Basilosaurus (© Markus Bühler)For a short time during the mid-1990s, a mysterious freshwater beast said to inhabit a lowland lake on the island of New Britain,...
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MIGO? REVISITING THE MONSTER OF LAKE DAKATAUA. PART...
Saltwater crocodile at Australia Z00 (© Sheba/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 2.0 licence)The island of New Britain is the largest member of the Bismarck Archipelago, situated east of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the...
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STUPENDOUS SEA TURTLES - MORE THAN JUST A MARITIME MYTH?
Skeleton of Archelon(public domain)Do the vast oceans of our planet conceal great sea turtles far larger than any that are officially known to exist there? The largest species of sea turtle ever known...
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MISSING MACAWS OF THE WEST INDIES - Part 1: RIDDLES IN RED AND YELLOW
Jan Steen's mystery red macaw (left); and Roelandt Savery's mystery red macaw (right) (both public domain)In two previous ShukerNature blog articles, I surveyed a number of mysterious,...
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MISSING MACAWS OF THE WEST INDIES - Part 2: A MULTICOLOURED MULTITUDE OF...
Dominican green and yellow macaw statuette, its colouring digitally created to match Atwood's description (© Dr Karl Shuker)In Part 1 of this 2-part ShukerNature blog article (click hereto access it),...
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BIG BIRD IS BACK IN BRITAIN – TWICE OVER!
Exquisite 1860s illustrations of the common crane (left) and the white stork (right), two spectacular species making very welcome returns to Britain as re-establishing breeding birds (public...
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ELUCIDATING THE TWO 'CIVIL WAR PTERODACTYL' THUNDERBIRD PHOTOGRAPHS
The two so-called Civil War Pterodactyl thunderbird photographs: the PTP photo (top) and the AP photo (bottom) (both photos © FreakyLinks/Haxan Films/Regency Television/20th Century Fox Television –...
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THE CONGOLESE NDENDECKI – A VERITABLE DINOSAUR TURTLE?
Reconstruction of the possible appearance in life of the Congolese ndendecki, alongside a local pygmy for scale purposes (© David Miller/Prof. Roy P. Mackal)During the 1980s, Prof. Roy P. Mackal,...
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HOW THE IMPERIAL FLEA WAS UNCEREMONIOUSLY DEPOSED, AND WHY THE BEE LOUSE...
Any flea that was 20 times as big as the all-too-familiar human flea Pulex irritans (a giant model of which is shown here) would certainly deserve to be designated as the emperor of all of its...
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SEA MONSTERS, DRAGONS, AND A PILOT WHALE SKULL
CFZ Deputy Director Graham Inglis holding the Falmouth pilot whale skull back in June 1996 when we met at Hay-on-Wye (© Dr Karl Shuker)I was recently perusing through various old photograph albums as...
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THE GIANT STONE TORTOISES OF KARAKORUM – A MONUMENTAL MYSTERY FROM MONGOLIA
Giant stone tortoise at Karakorum, Mongolia (© Frithjof Spangenberg/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 2.5 licence)In the Russian republic of Buryatia (in southcentral Siberia), the Russian Far East, the Korean...
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MEET THE MBIELU-MBIELU-MBIELU - SO GOOD, THEY NAMED IT THRICE!
Representation of the mbielu-mbielu-mbielu, based upon eyewitness descriptions (© Drawn by David Miller under the direction of Prof. Roy P. Mackal)In addition to the very famous sauropod-lookalike...
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A MYSTERY GHARIAL FROM AUSTRALIA?
Exquisite 19th-Century engraving of the gharial (public domain)The most distinctive, readily identifiable species of crocodilian alive today is the gharial or gavial Gavialis gangeticus, due to its...
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'PAN' - A SHUKERNATURE BOOK REVIEW
This is the paperback First Edition (not sure if there was ever a hardback First Edition) of Pan (© Birney Dibble/Leisure Books, of Nordon Publications: New York, 1980 – reproduced here on a strictly...
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THE LOCH NESS MONSTER AND THE SURGEON'S PHOTOGRAPH - A HOAX, OR A HOAXED...
The familiar cropped version of the Surgeon's Photograph (Fortean Picture Library)The Loch Ness Monster (or LNM for short) has been associated with numerous cryptozoological controversies down through...
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ON THE TRAIL OF NEW GUINEA'S STRIPED FELINE MYSTERY BEASTS
Spectacular figurine portraying the possible appearance in life of the Queensland tiger or yarri if real and constituting an extant species of thylacoleonid; owned by Australian cryptozoologist...
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IS THIS MYSTERIOUS PAINTING A PORTRAIT OF THE NUNDA?
Close-up of an extremely distinctive big cat that looks very like native descriptions of a Tanzanian mystery felid known as the nunda or mngwa, as depicted in a mysterious painting recently encountered...
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