Sad news, a northern bottlenose whale (nicknamed Gilbert) that had been spotted along the south coast of England near Bournemouth, has been found washed up on the beach near Alum Chine. The female whale had been delighting watchers every morning with tail flapping and water breaching, but experts had voiced their concerns as it was very unusual for such a whale to be found along the south coast. There has been lots of whale sighting [...]

Another hairless creature has been found, this time near Panama City. The creature, dumbed a Montauk Monster look-a-like was allegedly spotted by teenagers crawling out of a cave near the town of Cerro Azul, north of Panama City. Fearing for their safety as the beast moved towards them, they attacked the creature with sticks before throwing it into a pool of water. They later returned to take pictures of the hairless, rubbery body, which were [...]

Three images of one of Africa’s most elusive cats has been caught on camera. The African Golden Cat (Profelis aureate) was caught with a digital infrared camera trap, set up by Yale biologist Dr Gary Aronsen. Cat info: Due to its extremely reclusive living style, not much is known about this cat’s behaviour. The African Golden Cat is able to climb, but hunts primarily on the ground. Prey includes rodents, birds, small monkeys, the tree hyrax, [...]

An interesting video of a light filmed over Argentina. It could be a UFO, well I guess it is an unidentified object, but as usual there doesn’t appear to be any way of determining size or distance. The witness implies they have more footage of a second light (possible just the first again) and a helicopter with a search light. Caption (rough translation): On August 9, 2009 at 19:03:00, five witnesses (myself included), observed an [...]

August was a fantastic month for Cryptoworld, with over 20,000 unique (new) visitors and almost 800,000 hits! Unfortunately hits aren’t really a true indication of the amount of visitors to a site, but it would be great if we can top the 1 million mark before the end of the year! Anyway – the top stories for August are as follows – interestingly a couple of old stories have crept back into the top ten! [...]

The ability to digest the milk sugar lactose first evolved in dairy farming communities in central Europe, not in more northern groups as was previously thought, finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) scientists published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology. The genetic change that enabled early Europeans to drink milk without getting sick has been mapped to dairying farmers who lived around 7,500 years ago in a region between the central [...]