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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

DALE DRINNON: Updates

Frontiers of Zoology
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2014/07/tiwanaku-black-ware-creatures.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2014/07/maybe-not-so-faux-alligators-after-all.html http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2014/07/crowned-crowing-cobras.html

Frontiers of Anthropology:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2014/07/another-transplant-from-india-to-mexico.html

KARL SHUKER; A Mystery Moth From Fairyland?


Karl Shuker investigates a humming blue-eyed winged wonder - a crypto-fairy, perhaps?

Read on...

THE GONZO BLOG DO-DAH MAN IS ON THE WARPATH

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
Sunday afternoon and time
to do the daily blogs in rhyme
cos I've had a week of forced effulgence
and think I deserve some self indulgence
and it amuses me to write my verses
its one of the things that intersperses
my life which is often hard graft
alleviated by moments of being daft
So thanks for humouring me my friends
because this madess never ends
and these rhymes are not to boost my vanity
but to try and hold on to my sanity
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#87) is available to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Daevid Allen on the front cover an an article about the Glissando Orchestra's healing Drones for Daevid which seem to have worked miraculous results. It also includes an exclusive interview with Harry Williamson on the subject. Elsewhere in the issue Doug Harr interviews the founding members of Brand X and Erik Norlander gives us a very generous present.  There are also new shows from the wonderfully eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and toads with booze (OK, no alcoholic anurans, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
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FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES


What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?

Well, everything, actually!

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.




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