SAMURAIPAT- BIGFOOT COUNTRY!!!
Loren Coleman celebrates Jules Verne's birthday with a look at a creature appearing in the movie version of one of his novels, Mysterious Island, a classic cryptofiction story about a group of Union soldiers escaping from their Civil War prison via balloon, and landing on a remote island filled with prehistoric survivors, including memorable giant birds that terrorize the humans. Of course, early humans could never have come into contact with the giant carnivorous "terror birds" of North and South America, as it appears they became extinct at least 2 million years ago, not 15,000 years ago as previously thought. Elsewhere, Max Blake reviews an expensive set of books on another giant flightless bird species, the Moa of New Zealand, in Moa Sightings by Bruce Spittle. And speaking of ancient birds, what is Gabriel’s Feather - A Plume From The Wing Of An Archangel? Karl Shuker wonders if a feather that was once thought to be from an archangel of Heaven actually came from a bird of paradise.
Editorial: Did History Channel Take a Potshot at Roger Patterson?
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