Saturday, July 19, 2008

Leading off a pair of odd animal stories today: Conjoined birds are such a rarity no odds have ever been calculated for such a thing. But scientists at the Smithsonian Institution will soon be studying a pair of barn swallow fledglings found in Arkansas. Meanwhile, scientists are making the claim that evolution has led from piscatorial elocution to the elegant vocalizations of mankind, as explained in Human Speech Traced to Talking Fish.


Cryptozoologist, author and lecturer Loren Coleman is in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to lecture tomorrow at the Royal Alberta Museum. That calls for revisiting the 2005 case in which Bigfoot sightings in the Yukon were followed by discovery of some "Sasquatch hair" that would be submitted for analysis. What were the end results? With photos. Elsewhere, Coleman notes the boxoffice smash The Dark Knight, examining some actual reports of batlike humanoid figures in The Real Batman, and revisits that Colorado felid hunt in Was It an African Lion?

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