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Australia's 'Bunyip Bird' on the brink
Dubbed Australia's 'bunyip bird', the Australasian Bittern is among the nation's most endangered species, and they've taken a liking to rice crops.A pilot study conducted last summer identified rice...
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Secrecy shrouds world's most 'mysterious' bird
Some good discussion is happening over at The Conversation's website about the Night Parrot - the short answer, of course, is for its own protection!The Night Parrot has been called the “world’s most...
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Is Prof Sykes putting the nail in the Yeti coffin?
by Andrew Masterson, www.brisbanetimes.com.auOctober 2013 will go down as a bittersweet watershed in the curious field of cryptozoology - the study of creatures that probably don't...
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Denmark gets behind Tasmanian Devil preservation
Denmark's Copenhagen Zoo hopes to become a centre of excellence in Tasmanian devil handling.The zoo celebrated the first successful breeding of the endangered animals outside Australia last year when...
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Book review: Abominable Science! by Loxton & Prothero
By Mike WilliamsThe last book I had read by so-called "skeptics" on cryptozoology consisted of an anger-filled polemic against the "stupid people that chase monsters that everyone knows cannot exist".I...
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2013 CFZ Tasmanian Tiger expedition snippets
Poisonous spiders, Tasmanian Devils, Thylacine sightings...the 2013 CFZ Tasmanian Tiger expedition had it all! Here are a few highlights...including some fascinating sightings.
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Mystery animal captured on thermal camera - what is it?
Now here's something interesting.This game camera footage was shot by Wayne Knight in rural Victoria.The mystery creature with felid-like movements was captured on a thermal camera. We guesstimate the...
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Book review: A Gift From the Snake That Bit Him
A Gift From the Snake That Bit Him: Adventures of an Australian Reptile Man by Neville BurnsReview by Mike WilliamsNeville Burns, of www.nevilleburns.net, is one of Australia's most famous...
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Book review: The Science of Monsters by Matt Kaplan
The Science of Monsters by science journalist Matt KaplanReview by Mike WilliamsIt was with some trepidation I initially delved in to this book. Perhaps it was the title 'The Science of Monsters' that...
View ArticleMonster croc stalks Queensland fishermen
A 6-metre-long "man-eater sized" crocodile has stalked two Queensland fishermen while they sat in a small boat in the Hinchenbrook Channel north of Ingham.Whitsunday man Andy Thomsen and a friend were...
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New Australian book queries Tasmanian Tiger extinction...
Does the Tasmanian Tiger still roam the island state, parts of the Australian mainland, and the northern land mass of Irian Jaya-Papua New Guinea? Despite being hunted to extinction in the early part...
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The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant? makes Top 20
Great news!The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant? has made Loren Coleman's Top 20 list of best cryptozoology books for 2014.Cryptomundo recently featured a guest blog post by anthology editor Rebecca...
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Search combs state for elusive Tasmanian Tiger
Mike Williams and Lars Thomas hit the Tiger trail.An international team of naturalists from the Centre for Fortean Zoology has returned to Tasmania to search for the Tasmanian Tiger, Thylacinus...
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Tasmanian tiger trackers return to island for new expedition
An international team of Tasmanian tigers trackers is back in the island state for another Toyota-sponsored expedition to find the fabled creature.The group of naturalists, headed by Mike Williams,...
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On the trail of the Tiger
NSW man Michael Williams is on his eighth Toyota-sponsored trip in 10 years to the State searching for evidence the Tasmanian tiger walks the Apple Isle - 29 years after it was officially declared dead...
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Exhaust Notes talks to us about tracking Tigers with Toyota
The team over at Exhaust Notes caught up with some CFZers recently to talk about the recent Tasmanian expedition sponsored by Toyota Australia.Here's a snippet:Why did Toyota Australia sponsor your...
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Victorian Big Cat Hoax on Facebook
Okay, some Facebook funster has tried a quick hoax, which failed miserably, claiming that he had photographed a large black panther crossing a dirt road in central Victoria.Click the image to enlarge...
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Book Review: Lure Of The Thylacine by Col Bailey
By Mike WilliamsEasily Col Bailey's best book so far, Lure Of the Thylacine is now out, the second of three planned books dedicated to the Thylacine. Get your copy HERE.The passion and dedication that...
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OOPA: Golden Possum turns up in Brisbane
We love it when unusual wildlife turn up where they're not supposed to - in this case the rather splendid-looking Golden Possum, a rare colour phase previously only known to turn up in small pockets of...
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Latest FB "thylacine" Prank Photo
Tis the season for Facebook pranks.Make sure you pretend you just stumbled on to the animal.TickMake sure the animal doesnt react like a normal animal.TickPretend you do not know what the animal...
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'Hypercarnivore' relative of Tasmanian devil found in remote Queensland...
PHOTO: Whollydooleya's tooth was discovered in 2013, but only recently formally identified. (Supplied: UNSW)The fossilised tooth of a previously unknown 'hypercarnivore' marsupial has been uncovered in...
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A New Thylacine group is taking off big time...
Another fantastic Facebook Tasmanian Tiger group has been created by a few of us to catalog all Tasmanian sightings and the folklore and history of this amazing animal.This will also have the latest...
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Victorian Bigcats Research Group
Victorian Bigcats Research Group Myself and co founder Sarah Alsop created the group out of our mutual interest in the Bigcat phenomenon. We have both had sightings in the Otway ranges and actively...
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BOOK REVIEWYahoo Creek by Tohby Riddle. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest NSW, 2019.Having resided in two areas - the Kororo Basin and the Blue Mountains - long noted for reports of strange, highly elusive...
View ArticleRare Thylacine Footage Discovered by Researchers
Three Thylacine researchers have been hitting the archives hard and turning up rare, lost and undiscovered footage of the Tasmanian Tiger.Australians Michael Williams and Branden Holmes, and Welshman ,...
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