Angel and His Amazing Technicolor Dream Cat ShukerNature

Dr. Karl Shuker, buoyed by a positive response from readers in his search for the answer to the coelacanth goblet mystery, has decided to share other mysteries with his readers in hopes of responses that will settle the matters. Today's mystery involves a black cat-like creature, having forepaws like a monkey, attaining the size of a jaguar, and having the colorful stripes of the rainbow across its chest. In 1999 Spanish cryptozoologist Angel Morant Fores gathered reports of the creature from the Shuar Indians of Ecuador's Amazonian region. Elsewhere, guest blogger Brent Swancer continues a discussion of the wild canids of the Land of the Rising Sun, with images, in Japanese Wolves - Part III: The Ezo Wolf; and Loren Coleman offers some programming notes for tonight's "MonsterQuest" television show in Killer Jellies & Crocs.

Darwin Killed Off the Werewolf ScienceDaily

If you're a little put out by the lack of werewolves in today's forests, this article says Charles Darwin is the one to blame. Did Darwin's evolutionary theory lead people away from thoughts of a man-wolf hybrid? Did that theory give way to the man-ape hybrid, leaving us the current Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti/Yowie/Yeren (and a host of other manlike monsters from around the world) sort of creature? Does this prove man-ape hybrids won this "survival of the fittest" monster battle for mankind's central legend top spot? There's more on Darwin's impact in this regard at ScienceBlogs: Evolution & Monsters.