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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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