Thursday, April 01, 2010

Mike Conley's Tales of the Weird: Folks were looking for Knobby back in 1979



It may be April Fool's Day, but there's no fooling about the 2.5-foot-long creepy crawly hauled up from a depth of 8,500 feet in the Gulf of Mexico. With photo. Elsewhere, another of Earth's creatures displays a characteristic you wouldn't ordinarily connect to its species, as researcher Jack Dumbacher of the California Academy of Sciences discusses his discovery that New Guinea's Hooded Pitohui is the First Scientifically Confirmed Poisonous Bird. Dumbacher reveals his discovery in a video address. Among today's other creature features, Alan Friswell responds to Richard Freeman's search for information about a photo alleging to be a 43-foot tall Tyrannosaurus rex devouring a rhinoceros carcass in the Congo in 1932, as seen, with a new photo construction, in Rhino Rex Revealed! Revealing and Revelatory Reportage!!! Meanwhile, with a much less dramatic headline, one of the world's foremost cryptozoologists, Loren Coleman, reveals the second new book he has co-authored to be announced in the last week, as seen in True Giants, a book about creatures even larger than Bigfoot that are supposed to inhabit the forests of North America. Coleman's co-author for this book, to be published by Anomalist Books, is Mark A. Hall. Are 20-foot-tall humanlike creatures competing with Sasquatch for sustenance? With images. There's also a programming note for this evening's television viewers in Reminder: Animal Planet, "Beasts of the Bible," April 1st. For what we hope is really an April Fool's Day prank,Cryptozoology Online has announced their popular spokesman and narrator of the monthly Still on the Track video series isn't who we thought him to be in The Truth About Jon Downes Revealed. Word has it Downes' "wife" Corinna is distraught...more or less.

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