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REVIEWING 'CARNIFEX' - A CRYPTOZOOLOGY-THEMED CREATURE FEATURE FROM DOWN UNDER
Publicity poster for Carnifex, showing the characters gazing up in awe at some formidable claw marks left upon a tree trunk by a large unknown animal of seemingly arboreal ability (© Sean...
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VALERO'S ROCK JAGUAR AND RED JAGUAR - TWO LESSER-KNOWN BRAZILIAN MYSTERY CATS
Did Valero's kintanari look something like this? (© William M. Rebsamen)American correspondent Ted Leonard kindly brought to my attention some years ago a fascinating book that mentions two Brazilian...
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SHARING SOME MONSTROUSLY-ENTERTAINING CRYPTO-CREATURE FEATURE REVIEWS IN...
Front cover of the current issue (#446, dated July 2024) of the British monthly magazine Fortean Times, featuring yours truly as its cover star! (© David Sutton/Etienne Gilfillan/Fortean Times/Diamond...
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AN OYSTER-SCALED ODDITY FROM BRAZIL
Is this what Lerius's big white Brazilian lizard looked like? (modified from an iguana photograph © Carlos Andrés Reyes/Wikipedia – CC BY 2.0 licence)One of the earliest mystery beast reports...
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HIDING FROM THE HIDE? EERIE DEEPSEA ENCOUNTERS WITH ABYSSAL ABOMINATIONS
A photo-still from Encounter In The Abyss by Richard Svensson, depicting the nameless horror from the underwater abyss about to encapsulate the stricken shark while the terrified diver stood...
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PUBLISHED TODAY, MY BRAND-NEW 35TH BOOK - 'SHUKERNATURE BOOK 4: TIJUANA'S...
Featuring a vintage, suitably terrifying illustration of Wisconsin's hideous hodag glaring and frimacing at all potential readers, here is the front cover of my latest book, ShukerNature Book 4 (© Dr...
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A FORMER FOXY FRIEND?
Reconstruction of the likely appearance in life of the officially-extinct Argentinian avus fox Dusicyon avus (© Juandertail/Wikipedia – CC BY-SA 4.0 licence)South America's so-called foxes are...
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PUTTING THE QUEENSLAND TIGER AND THE CONGOLESE WATER ELEPHANT IN THE PICTURE!
My illustration of the Queensland tiger aka the yarri, which I prepared as a teenager back in the mid-/late1970s (© Dr Karl ShukerSerendipity has played a big part in my life, usually involving my...
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FINDING THE FEATHERED LIONS OF LARRY HAGMAN – AGAIN!
Did American actor Larry Hagman see something like this during his 'trip'?My memory has always been akin to an exceedingly eclectic but generally well-organised, well-maintained filing cabinet whose...
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GREEN PIGS THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS - MUSING ON THE MOME RATHS AND OTHER...
In Lewis Carroll's Looking-Glass Land, mome raths are small green pigs with long snouts (© Dr Karl Shuker)Down through the years, I've documented here on ShukerNature, and subsequently in various of...
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EVALUATING THE ELF CHIMP OF FLORIDA - GLOWING GREEN AND VERY MEAN!
Is this what the elf chimp looked like? (created by me using MagicStudio)My previous ShukerNature blog article was devoted to fictional green pigs (click here to read it), so now, continuing this...
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RUFFED CAT REVELATIONS - LESSER-KNOWN MEXICAN MYSTERY CATS, PART 1 (OF 3)
Reconstruction of the possible appearance in life of Mexico's mysterious ruffed cat (created by me using Grok)When cryptozoologists think of Mexican mystery cats, the example that always comes...
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DEADLY DEER-PUMAS, LITTLE LIONS, GIANT JAGUARUNDIS, AND MORE! – LESSER-KNOWN...
One long-recognized and three currently-unrecognized Mexican felids – (top left) the puma; (top right) the mazamiztli; (bottom left) Montezuma's wolf-puma; (bottom right) the tlalmiztli (© Hodari...
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MONTEZUMA'S MYSTIFYING WOLF-PUMA – LESSER-KNOWN MEXICAN MYSTERY CATS, PART 3...
Life-sized reconstruction of the North American scimitar cat Homotherium serum (© Dr Karl Shuker)So far, in Parts 1 and 2 (click here and here to read them) of my comprehensive 3-part article on...
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REVIEWING RAZORTOOTH, A DECIDEDLY FISHY MONSTER MOVIE - AND NOT FORGETTING...
My official Lionsgate Region 1 DVD of Razortooth (© Patricia Harrington/Gravedigger Films/Capital Art Entertainment (CAE)/PUSH/Lionsgate – reproduced here on a strictly non-commercial Fair Use basis...
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TONGUE-TIED BY THE TWO-TONGUES!
Is this what Malaya's mystifying two-tongued cryptids looked like? (created by me using Grok)The days spanning Christmas and the New Year are traditionally ones filled with mystery and magic, a time...
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SHEDDING LIGHT UPON THE MYSTERY OF LUMINOUS BIRDS - Part 1: OWLS AND FOWLS...
Is this what a luminous or glowing owl would look like? THE LUMINOUS OWLA marvellous fowl is the luminous owl, It glitters and glisters and gleams. It lights up the night in its shimmering flight, A...
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SHEDDING LIGHT UPON THE MYSTERY OF LUMINOUS BIRDS - Part 2: ALL AGLOW WITH...
Is this what a luminous or glowing owl would look like?Sceptics notwithstanding, the phenomenon of luminous birds whose lengthy history I surveyed recently on ShukerNature in Part 1 of this two-part...
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PRESENTING THE PYRALLIS - BORN (AND BORNE) WITHIN THE FIERY FURNACES OF...
Is this what the fire-sustained pyrallis is said to have looked like in ancient Cyprus? This is #1 of ten original pyrallis representations included by me in this article.The classical mythology of...
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"BRING ME THE HEAD OF KING KONG!"– A SHUKERNATURE PICTURE OF THE DAY
Vintage photograph of a man-made pantomime stage prop in the form of a giant primate head (but NOT derived from a real, dead animal) (public domain/Wikipedia)It’s been quite a while since I last...
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