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THE BIG GREY MAN OF BEN MACDHUI - BRITAIN'S VERY OWN BIGFOOT?
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Ben MacDhui’s principal claim to fame is that, at 4296 ft (1309 m), it is the highest mountain in the Cairngorms range and is second only to Ben Nevis throughout...
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WHEN JULIUS CAESAR MET THE HERCYNIAN UNICORN
The Hercynian unicorn if indeed a uni-stag (© Markus Bühler)Germany has long been associated with unicorn traditions, in particular with the supposed occurrence of dainty white unicorns in the Harz...
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IS THE MÜSHMURGH A MISH-MASH? - ORNITHOLOGICAL MYSTERIES IN INDIA AND IRAN
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Western tragopan (male in foreground) painted by D.J. Elliot in 1872Mystery birds have always fascinated me, especially as they tend to attract much less cryptozoological...
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FROM BIG BIRDS TO BIGFOOT - DIATRYMA AND A VERY CURIOUS CRYPTO-DILEMMA
Zdeněk Burian's famous artistic reconstruction of Diatryma [=Gastornis]giganteus (© Zdeněk Burian)It was back in July 1997 when a curious snippet that apparently featured a while earlier on the...
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TEN OF MY FAVOURITE CRYPTOZOOLOGY-LINKED LOCATIONS IN BRITAIN
Nessie and family ((c) Richard Svensson)What do Cannock Chase, Renwick, Exmoor, Drummans, Falmouth Bay, and Bala Lake all have in common? If I added Loch Ness to the list, I'm sure that you'd guess...
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PERUSING THE PEGASI – PLINY'S HORSE-HEADED MYSTERY BIRDS
Pegasi illustration (© Tony Millionaire)One of the best-known creatures of classical mythology is Pegasus – the flying horse who sprang into existence (along with his human brother, Chrysaor) from...
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JUST ITCHING TO MEET YOU – THE MUHNOCHWA OR INDIAN SCRATCH MONSTER
Line drawing of the Indian scratch monster - Schizodactylus monstrosusMonsters can come in all shapes, sizes - and scratching capabilities!In 2002, many strange stories emerged from Lucknow, the...
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BLUE LIONS OF AFRICA AND ASIA
Computer-generated image of a blue lion (© Dr Karl Shuker)Welcome to the 400th ShukerNature blog post! To celebrate this milestone, I now have pleasure in presenting a creature that is unusual even by...
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KING HARES AND GIANT RABBITS - KEEPING CRYPTOZOOLOGY ON THE HOP!
Statue of a giant hare at Hay on Wye (© Dr Karl Shuker)Hares are among the most delightful and enigmatic of British mammals, and down through the ages they have been many things to many people –...
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THE PARTRIDGE CREEK MONSTER - A LIVING DINOSAUR IN THE YUKON?
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Artistic representation of the Partridge Creek monster (© Connor Lachmanec, aka TheMorlock on deviantart.com)The Arctic wastelands of the Yukon Territory, on the borders...
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GLOWING MUDSKIPPERS AND FLASHLIGHT FROGS – TWO BIOLUMINESCENT MYSTERY BEASTS?
Artistic representation of the unidentified flashlight frog (© Connor Lachmanec, aka TheMorlock on Deviantart.com)Bioluminescence is the emission of light by certain life forms. These include many...
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IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO - IT'S BATSQUATCH!
Spectacular rendition of batsquatch by tattoo artist and friend Gary Stanley aka Stigmata, originally prepared by him specifically for a magazine article of mine during the late 1990s – cheers, Gaz! (©...
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NYOLS AND NET-NETS AND BITARRS, OH MY! - ON THE TRACK OF AUSTRALIA'S ELUSIVE...
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } My copy of Patricia Wrightson's famous children's novel An Older Kind of Magic(1972), in which I first learnt of nyols, net-nets, and several other examples of...
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THE FIRST NESSIE BOOK, AND A COMPREHENSIVE LOCH NESS MONSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Home of the LochNess Monster (image supplied to me by Errol Fuller)It was 80 years ago this year when the pamphlet pictured above in this present ShukerNature blog post was published. A humble,...
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WHITHER THE WATER ELEPHANT?
Artistic representation of the Congolese water elephant (© Markus Bühler)Whereas the African pygmy elephant has attracted appreciable interest and even more appreciable controversy, both within and...
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF ROTHSCHILD'S LOST TUSK AND THE NON-EXISTENT ELEPHANT PIG...
Afrochoerus purposefully portrayed here as originally conceived when first discovered, i.e. erroneously sporting the tusks of a prehistoric elephant (© Hodari Nundu/deviantart.com)I first came upon the...
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THE 'OTHER' ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A BRITISH SAINT AND A LAKE MONSTER
St Mochua and the lake monster of Connaught, Ireland (© William Rebsamen)Every self-respecting cryptozoologist knows – or should know – about the famous encounter claimed for St Columba and the Loch...
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THE EMELA-NTOUKA – NEW CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE FOR THE CONGO'S CRYPTIC 'KILLER...
Reconstruction of the emela-ntouka (© David Miller under the instruction of Prof. Roy P. Mackal)I've been promising ShukerNature readers for almost a year now that I'd write up this fascinating...
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BIRD-HEADED FISH-MEN AND PIG-RIDING MAN-BEASTS - MORE PERPLEXING PORTRAYALS...
A red river hog (aka bush pig), a species of wild pig habitually ridden through the Central African Republic's forests by dwarf hairy man-beasts…allegedly! (© Dr Karl Shuker)In my previous ShukerNature...
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THE CROWING CRESTED COBRA – A CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL COCKATRICE?
Artistic impression of the crowing crested cobra's coxcombed head and facial wattles, based upon eyewitness descriptions (© Dr Karl Shuker)The legendary basilisk was originally described in Western...
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