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10 September 2020 The owhuama is a cryptid reported from the Venezuelan Amazon, considered to be the Yanomami people's version of the mapinguari, which has itself been reported from the Venezuelan-Brazilian border region.

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CFZ Latest THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS HAPPY - Unknown - 2021/06/23 10:07  The Gonzo Daily: Wednesdayhttp://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.htmlToday is not a very nice day. Graham, Carl, and Sarah are sorting out all of Corinna’s things from her old Welsh dresser. Olivia i... BIG CAT ROUND UP - Liv McCarthy - 2021/06/23 08:42  The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some... THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG - Liv McCarthy - 2021/06/23 08:38  UNDERWATER SEAWEED CREATURESIGHTINGS OF SATYRS/FAUNS8 ASIAN CRYPTIDSNATIVE AMERICANS AND BIGFOOTARE THESE THE REMAINS OF A BRITISH BIG CAT?WAS THIS DOGMAN?CHILDHOOD ENCOUNTERFLORIDA PAINTED VULTUREFO... NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday - Unknown - 2021/06/22 23:30   ON THIS DAY IN - 1758 - British and Hanoverian armies defeated the French at Krefeld in Germany.And now some more recent news from the CFZ NewsdeskSubject: Wild Justice 64 - please contact your Wes.... BIG CAT ROUND UP - Liv McCarthy - 2021/06/21 04:30  The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some... ShukerNature Latest THE DINOSAURS OF CRYSTAL PALACE - VISITING LONDON'S LOST WORLD. Part 3: THE RAVAGES OF TIME, AND AN AMERICAN DREAM DESTROYED - Dr Karl Shuker - 2021/06/22 21:44  The dream that died – a 19th-Century engraving depicting Hawkins's planned Palaeozoic Museum for New York City; how magnificent it would have been (public domain) In Parts 1 and 2 of this ShukerNatur... THE DINOSAURS OF CRYSTAL PALACE - VISITING LONDON'S LOST WORLD. Part 2: WELCOME TO THE AGE OF REPTILES! - Dr Karl Shuker - 2021/06/21 22:40  The Crystal Palace dinosaurs, in Views of the Crystal Palace and Park, Sydenham (1854), by Matthew Digby Wyatt with P.H. Delamotte (public domain) Yesterday, in Part 1 of this 3-part ShukerNature blo... THE DINOSAURS OF CRYSTAL PALACE - VISITING LONDON'S LOST WORLD. Part 1: MEGALOSAURUS, MEGALOCEROS, MEGATHERIUM, AND MORE! - Dr Karl Shuker - 2021/06/19 23:28  Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins's Crystal Palace studio in 1853, containing some of his completed statues of prehistoric 'monsters' (public domain) On 22 April 2010, I finally fulfilled a lifelong ambiti... WAS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF NESSIE DNA PROPELLED INTO OBLIVION? - Dr Karl Shuker - 2021/06/17 21:35  The Story of the Loch Ness Monster (1973), by Tim Dinsdale – the very first book devoted entirely to Nessie that I ever read and owned – and I still own it today (© Tim Dinsdale/Target Publishers – r... UNFURLING CHINA'S FENG-HUANG – THE 'OTHER' PHOENIX - Dr Karl Shuker - 2021/05/30 23:07  A multicoloured feng-huang figurine that I brought back home from Hong Kong in 2005 (© Dr Karl Shuker) One of the most famous legendary birds is the Egyptian phoenix, but traditional Chinese mytholog... Loch Ness Mystery Latest Old Posters from the 1970s - Glasgow Boy - 2021/06/17 23:18  I spotted this Nessie poster on eBay last week and bought it for about a fiver. I think people are more likely to call them infographics these days, but I had never seen it before and so it joins the... Day Trip to Loch Ness - Glasgow Boy - 2021/06/07 22:26  Things had to be shorter this time around at Loch Ness, so I resolved to jump in the car and head up north about 8am, arriving at Inverfarigaig just over three hours later. The Scottish Government ha... Charles Wyckoff on the Loch Ness Monster - Glasgow Boy - 2021/05/28 23:25 Long time Nessie fans will be aware of Charles Wyckoff and his association with the Loch Ness hunt in the 1970s along with his friend, Harold Edgerton. Charles was best known for his work on high spee... The Lancashire Policeman who saw the Monster - Glasgow Boy - 2021/05/17 19:59  Here is a sighting report that is new to me which recently appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post (link). It dipped into its archives to retrieve this account from 86 years ago and from which the il... One of the Silliest Nessie Theories - Glasgow Boy - 2021/05/12 22:01 I was recently contacted by Sean Murphy from the Scottish newspaper, the Daily Record, regarding a "novel" theory about what the Loch Ness Monster may be. Was it giant eels or some new variant of the...

December 2020's featured article

The chipekwe is a cyptid lake monster reported from lakes, rivers, and marshes in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly around Lake Bangweulu. As the term "chipekwe" is thought to be equivalent to "monster," disparate cryptids from the region have been termed chipekwes, including animals similar to the emela-ntouka, mokele-mbembe, and water lions, as well as the similar but distinct nsanga. Some types of chipekwe were the earliest examples of African neodinosaurs known to Europeans, at the turn of the 20th Century, and the chipekwe therefore played a role in the Great Brontosaurus Hoax. Last month: Yeti Previously: Beast of 'Busco

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CryptoZooNews Latest Whitehall Bigfoot Guardian Pat Sparks Dies - Loren Coleman - 2021/06/05 00:49 Pat Sparks was the steward of the artifacts of her husband's sighting.... Timothy Green Beckley Dies - Loren Coleman - 2021/06/01 18:00 He published books on creatures, weird phenomena, and flying saucers.... Cat Country Author Di Francis Dies - Loren Coleman - 2021/05/21 13:28 The later years grew kinder for Di Francis' findings and interesting reports.... Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2020 - Loren Coleman - 2020/12/27 19:38 With COVID-19, it was a sad, calm year.... The Golden Yetis: The Cryptozoologist of the Year 2020 & Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 - Loren Coleman - 2020/12/21 02:00 2020, The Cryptozoologist of the Year, Dr. Marie-Jeanne Koffmann, Lifetime Achievement Award, Christopher L. Murphy, Year in Review...

Past featured articles

The Mapinguari Does the deepest Amazon harbour a surviving giant ground sloth? Read more > The Queensland Tiger A dangerous marsupial predator - and once the cryptid closest to official recognition Read more > The Tigre de Montagne A living sabre-toothed cat in the dry mountains? Read more > The Nandi Bear Bear, hyena, baboon, or chalicothere? Read more >

Past featured articles

The Mokele-Mbembe Meet the mysterious "dragons" of the Congo. Read more > The Emela-Ntouka Cameroon's killer of elephants Read more > The Minhocão A giant burrowing serpent of southern Brazil. Read more > Giant Lemurs Do Madagascar's giant subfossil lemurs still survive? Read more >