It has been a while since I have updated Cryptoworld, partly because I have been busy with other projects, but mostly because there hasn’t been a great deal of (weird) news that I have found interesting enough to write about.
I must confess I have even considered closing Cryptoworld, but there seems to be a steady […]

The eelpout Pachycara cousinsi is one of six new species of deep-sea fish found at depths of 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) off the remote Crozet Islands in the Indian Ocean between Antarctica and Africa.
The eelpout has been identified as a new species from just one sample that was caught during a 2005/2006 expedition. The size […]

Evidence of a giant frog the size of a bowling ball, with body armour and teeth that lived alongside dinosaurs millions of years ago has been discovered in Madagascar by paleontologist from Stony Brook University.
The 10 pound 16 inch monster lived around 65-70 million years ago, but bizarrely its closest know ‘living’ relative, a normal […]

A new species of mammal, resembling a giant elephant shrew has been discovered in Tanzania.
The bizarre-looking creature, dubbed Rhynochocyon Udzungwensis, is a type of giant elephant shrew, or sengi.
But despite its name, the creature, is not actually related to shrews. It is actually more closely related to another group of African mammals, which include elephants, […]

Scientist from a Chinese university have said 2 out of 11 piglets born from genetically altered cloned pigs have inherited the genes that make them glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light.
The original glowing pigs were genetically altered by adding genetic material from jellyfish to help the study of stem cell research.
The scientists continue to […]

It was long thought to have be just a hoax, but the National Geograhic finally put the story to bed in December 2007 when it announced that the Giant Skeletons the National Geographic Society allegedly helped to “discovery” in India, was nothing more than an image manipulated hoax.
The original story was picked up by hundreds […]

An 8 metre (25 foot) high statue of Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Dead floated down the Thames (London) on Monday.
The Jackle headed God is in town to promote a new exhibition on Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, and will be on desplay in Trafalgar Square for three days before moving […]

Less than a month after the Baiji (Yangtze River dolphin) was declared “technically” extinct, a new sighting promises hope for one of the worlds most endangered species.
On the 19th August, a local man spotted a white object swimming in the river and decided to filmed it. Unfortunately the quality of the film is poor […]

Vampire bats in Latin America are turning to cattle for their staple diet of blood, due to deforestation of their natural prays habitat.
Most forest clearing in South and Central America is for cattle grazing, and as a result, bats numbers have grown to take advantage of the larger prey.
Scientists have said said studies in area […]

The infamous big cats of Buckinghamshire and Bexleyheath have been spotted again this summer.
The Beast of Bucks was seen around 5pm on the 2nd August 2007 by Richard Skipp and a work colleague while driving home near Beldlow Ridge, just north of West Wycombe.
“It was a puma-like creature. It wasn’t panicked by us, it just […]