In the Wake of Bernard Heuvelmans Fortean Times

Bob Rickard reviews Michael Woodley's book which is, itself, somewhat of a review of Bernard Heuvelmans' 1958 cryptozoological classic In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents. Rickard mentions the books on the subject that followed Heuvelmans' publication, including the Loren Coleman/Patrick Huyghe "field guide" collaboration. Of note is Woodley's addition "of a new methodology" to apply to Heuvelmans' ten categories of the beasts. In other book reviews of note, Nick Redfern reviews The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the 1800s, written by Dennis Crenshaw in collaboration with P. G. Navarro in Dellschau and Phantom Airships, and also gives us a glimpse of Christopher O'Brien's Stalking the Tricksters: Shapeshifters, Skinwalkers, Dark Adepts and 2012 in Tales of the Trickster.

Bipedalism Takes a Big Step Backward The Washington Post

From the maverick science news: Footprints discovered 34 years ago in Tanzania are being used to suggest some ancestors of today's humans began walking like modern humans over a million years before scientists had previously surmised they did so. Laser examination of the fossilized footprints of a proto-human have led to the new reckoning, throwing a modest curve into the evolutionary mix of the human species. Elsewhere, among other excavated enigmas, archaeologists are scratching their heads over a find in Italy that is mysterious for several reasons, not the least of which is the huge volume of metal used in making a sarcophagus, as seen, with photo, in An Archaeology Mystery in a Half-ton Lead Coffin; and Philip Coppens explains why what can be found in a small museum in a Scottish village may lead to a rewrite of the history of the Picts in A Scottish Loki Stone. With images. Meanwhile, an image accompanies Alan Boyle's article about last night's "History Channel" presentation concerning a controversial religious object, as reported in The Face in the Shroud.