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Unfortunately there have been technical problems on this blog. I was not allowed on to do anything for a long time and all of the interim comments were accidently wiped. It could not be helped and I...
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Lake Champlain Rhombopteryx
I was sent this by Jay Cooney some time back but I decided to wait until he had a go at publishing it himself. It seems to represent a Plesiosaur-shaped creature in this footage taken at Lake...
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Original Notice of the Patagonian Plesiosaur
1922, eleven years before Loch Ness was in the news
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Plesiosaurs and Gars
As Scott Mardis mentioned, Canadian Post-Cretaceous freshwater plesiosaur fossils have been found in the same deposits as those of gars and bowfins (He has the pdf on file)Scott posted this picture as...
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San Francisco Sea Serpent
Jay Cooney and I were having a discussion about this sighting at the Zombie Plesiosaur Society and he indicated the witness drawing at top. I cut out just the black part showing above the surface and...
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Plesiosaur Family Tree
I posted this at Lake Monsters and so I thought I should post it here. Darren Naish made the base chart of this BUT he threw some rather puzzling "Leftover" Longnecked Plesiosaur fossil genera in with...
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Some More Plesiosaur Lake Monster Info From Scott Mardis
Scott Mardis compares Lake Champlain and Loch Ness photographs with Plesiosaur skeletons above, and a view of a photograph of the head with the skull of a Plesiosaur at the British Museum. Scott Mardis...
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The Plesiosaur Body Shape and its Impact on Hydrodynamic Properties
Scott Mardis sent this to me and it is a very valuable resource. The entire article can be downloaded from the site http://mds.marshall.edu/etd/274/Cryptoclidus is the genus with a body shape most like...
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Roman and Byzantine- Age Sea Monsters
Peter Costello drew attention to this mosaic in In Search Of Lake Monsters and surmised that it represented the same kind of Longnecked Sea-serpent that witnesses continued seeing and which were the...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Sea Monster
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Sea MonsterJanuary 6, 2013by Adrienne Mayor (Wonders & Marvels contributor)Sea monster sightings have been reported in the Mediterranean since antiquity. Aristotle...
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Ten Mermaid Sightings
10 Credible Mermaid Sightings? (+Videos)By Daniel Cameron, Epoch Times | September 21, 2013Last Updated: September 23, 2013 3:03 pm [Note, this article is reposted as a news item and not as any kind of...
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Surface Swimming Longnecks and Plesiosaurs
Jay Cooney has made these comparisons and they look like they are potentially meaningful the way he has arranged them, and so I pass the pasteups along. Recent model of the likely surfacing...
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Tiwanaku Black Ware Creatures
I recently came across some information on some black pottery animal figures (zoomorficas) found at Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco). In central America, similar black pottery can be very old, back to 2000 BC or...
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Maybe Not So Faux Alligators After All
I had at one point mentioned that water monster depictions had a distinctive subcategory that showed creatures with a row of spines down the middle of the back. In one of my earlier postings to an...
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Crowned Crowing Cobras
These two Roman representations of probably Crested Crowned Cobras recently came to me in the form of a Cryptic colouring page. I coloured them in and add them to the blog as illustrating the type. The...
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Earliest Documentation of a Giant Beaver
Scott Mardis just sent this in along with a package including many other things: Giant Beaver of the St Lawrence, Codex Canadiensis, ca 1670I am fairly certain this "Cheval Marin" only represents...
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Indian Rock, Champ, And The American Bunyip
Scott Mardis sent me some more pdfs about the "Horned Serpent" and the Lake Champlain area. Among the more interesting items was a petroglyph rock from Southern Vermont called Indian Rock. The...
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Horned Serpents in Mounds and Puebloes
Wehave had announcements about the "Dinosaurian" Water Monster (Horned Serpent) Avanyu (Awanyu) before, but I just came across this stunning petroglyph representing one from the Anasazi culture. The...
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The Lake Monster of Japan’s Mt. Fuji
I am reposting this from another blog by requestThe Lake Monster of Japan’s Mt. Fuji posted July 21, 2014 by Brent Swancer Japan is a rugged, mountainous land filled with natural beauty. Perhaps the...
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Lake Pepin's rumored creature may be folklore come to life
[I feel I need to reiterate that "Lake Pepin" is only an enlargement of the Mississippi River and so we are really talking about the Mississippi River Monster, and there are a lot more sightings and...
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Researchers discover rare new species of deep-diving whale
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-rare-species-deep-diving-whale.htmlResearchers discover rare new species of deep-diving whaleFeb 05, 2014 Enlarge Male specimen of Mesoplodon hotaula that washed up on...
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This blog has been hacked and I have not been able to add anything or edit it for most of the calendar year 2014. Nor have I been able to get into the comments to read them or approve them. Most of the...
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Monsters in America Map Dissection
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2923920/United-monsters-America-Infographic-reveals-strange-beasts-captured-nation-s-imagination.htmlUnited monsters of America: Infographic reveals the...
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Australian Megafauna for Australia Day
The following picture of the presumably-extinct Australian megafauna was posted this morning on Facebook because of Australia Day. Most of the creatures shown on it have been nominated as survivals...
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