It was only a matter of time and not a surprise to learn that shortly after the first fuzzy picture appeared on the net – see O’Hare UFO picture and links (pt2) there appeared several others. All (unsurprisingly) looking similar in shape, size and colour. Now call me a cynic, but the two images that appeared today are – well – a lot like the first and that, like these are hard to work out [...]

After the skeletal remains of an 18,000-year-old, Hobbit-sized human were discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, some scientists thought that the specimen must have been a pygmy or a micro-cephalic – a human with an abnormally small skull. Not so, said Dean Falk, a world-renowned paleoneurologist and chair of Florida State University’s anthropology department, who along with an international team of experts created detailed maps of imprints left on the ancient hominid’s [...]

The origins and earliest branches of primate evolution are clearer and thought to be even more ancient than previous studies estimated – infact they are thought to be a whopping 10 million years more ancient according to a new study. A paper by researchers at Yale, the University of Winnipeg, Stony Brook University, and led by University of Florida paleontologist Jonathan Bloch reconstructs the base of the primate family tree by comparing skeletal and fossil [...]

A female frilled shark, sometimes referred to as a “living fossil” because the species has changed little since prehistoric times has been caught and filmed off the coast of Japan. The rare shark was first spotted by a local fisherman who thought is was a weird eel-fish, so contacted the Awashima Marine Park in Shizuoka. Staff from the marine park later captured and filmed the shark swimming shortly before it died. It’s thought the shark [...]

Today a picture appeared on the inter-net that is alleged to be the UFO that appeared over the O’Hare Airport on 7th December 2006. The picture was taken with a mobile phone by a friend of a member of the abovetopsecret forum, who clams to have been at the airport at the time of the incident. Setting aside for a moment as to whether the picture is real or not, I find it odd that [...]

After much anticipation, the Centre for Fortean Zoology have finally released a documentary recount of the 2005 expedition to Mongolia where the CFZ and yours truly trekked around the Gobi Desert for four weeks interviewing witnesses, and searching for evidence of the fabled Mongolian Deathworm! Richard Freeman, the CFZ’s zoological director, does a fine job at narrating the two part documentary. Some of the events and facts seem to be a little fuzzy and vary [...]

Officials in Australia have warned that the server drought, the worst for more than 100 years, is driving thousands of snakes and other reptiles into urban areas. Three people have been killed in Australian over the last few weeks, after being bitten by venomous reptiles. Experts have warned that an army of snakes is on the move, looking for water. Driven by extreme thirst they have been discovered in gardens, bedrooms and even shopping centres.

I would have thought that it’s safe to say that most of you would have heard about the UFO sighting at O’Hare Airport, Chicago on 7th December last year? I’ve kind of neglected writing about it as Cryptoworld was off the air at that time, and there was and still is loads of information already out there on the web. So instead of just reporting the same old stuff, I thought I would write a [...]

After spotting the Protection for ‘weirdest’ species story on the BBC web site today, I followed the link to EDGE and found an extraordinary website. Recent studies indicate that almost 75 per cent of the world’s most extraordinary threatened mammals are receiving little or no conservation attention. If these species go extinct, they will be lost forever. There are no similar animals on earth to replace them. The EDGE of Existence programme aims to conserve [...]

A Strange story indeed this, and one that will be very interesting to follow. According to a release from the FARS News Agency, and unidentified (flying) object has crashed the the Barez Mountains in central Iran. Officials in Iran have dismissed claims that is was a crashed plane or helicopter, and that it was also unlikely that it was a meteorite as the object appeared to be trailing smoke before it crashed. Interestingly, it seems [...]