'Largest' crocodile caught in Philippines?

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After destroying four traps, hunters caught the crocodile in one made from steel cables. About 100 people from Bunawan township joined together to pull it to a clearing.

The 21-feet (6.4 metres) saltwater crocodile!

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It is now being kept in an area of the town where an eco-tourism park is planned. It will become the star attraction, and officials say they hope it will turn it “from a threat into an asset”.

This month marks the sad death of the last captive Tasmanian Tiger, know as Benjamin.
The last captive thylacine, later referred to as “Benjamin” (although its sex has never been confirmed) was captured in 1933 by Elias Churchill and sent to the Hobart Zoo where it lived for three years.

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Frank Darby who claimed to have been a keeper at Hobart Zoo, suggested “Benjamin” as having been the animal’s pet name in a newspaper article of May 1968. However no documentation exists to suggest that it ever had a pet name and Alison Reid (de facto curator at the zoo) and Michael Sharland (publicist for the zoo) denied that Frank Darby had ever worked at the zoo or that the name Benjamin was ever used for the animal.

Darby also appears to be the source for the claim that the last thylacine was a male – photographic evidence suggests it was female. This thylacine died on 7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect – locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, where it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather – extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night.

Tasmanian tiger’s jaws were too weak to kill sheep, and at the end of the 19th Century, the thylacine had a price on its head.

The strange marsupial carnivore, which became extinct in 1936, was thought to kill sheep. Sheep farming was the backbone of the Australian economy, and the government duly set up a bounty scheme to exterminate the species.

But a new study has now revealed that the marsupial carnivore’s jaws were too weak to snare a struggling adult sheep.

As well as revealing the injustice of its being hunted, the study also suggests that the animal’s diet contributed significantly to its demise.

“They would need to hunt a lot of small animals to survive,” explained lead researcher Marie Attard from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

“So just small disturbances to the ecosystem – such as those resulting from the way European settlers altered the land – would have reduced their odds of survival.”

Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of the death of what is believed to have been the last remaining thylacine, named Ben. The animal was kept at Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

Thylacines, also known as Tasmanian tigers because of their striped back, used to roam throughout Australia and New Guinea. By the end of the 19th Century, Tasmania was the last refuge for a few remaining animals.

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Tasmanian tiger’s jaws were too weak to kill sheep
Thylacine on Wikipedia

We visited Mongolia in May which is known as the month(s) of winds, the short video show a Dust Devil in the distance, that slowly moves closer and closer, then goes right thought the campsite wrecking everything – a sign perhaps that we should have abandoned our search for the Deathworm!?

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More info on the expedition (which will be updated soon) can be found here: Operation Deathworm

What is the Jabberwocky? It’s a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872).

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Jabberwocky

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought–
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe

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Mystery sea creature spotted in the Mersey has experts baffled!

The “monster” was snapped off Seacombe Ferry at 9am yesterday by photographer Mark Harrison.

Paul Renolds, from the Blue Planet Aquarium, who studied the photos, said: “It is virtually impossible to actually identify, but this is the time of year when large numbers of basking sharks, the second largest shark species in the world after whale sharks, head towards waters off the Isle of Man.”

He added: “If it is not a basking shark, it could be a smaller species of whale or a dolphin because there are around 23 different species in UK waters.”

Source: Mystery Mersey ‘monster’ baffles marine life experts

Its head and body looked like a dog, yet its striped coat was cat-like. It carried its young in a pouch, like a kangaroo. No wonder the thylacine — the enigmatic, iconic creature of Australia and Tasmania was the object of so much confusion, alternately called the “marsupial wolf” and the “Tasmanian tiger.”

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So what was it? By studying bones of thylacines and 31 other mammals, researchers at Brown University have the answer: The thylacine was a Tasmanian tiger — more cat than dog, although clearly a marsupial

Source: Marsupial Wolf or Tasmanian Tiger? Extinct Australian Thylacine Was More Cat Than Dog, Researchers Find

Firefighter Virgil Turner said he grabbed the animal's legs and tail

A real out-of-place cryptozoology find – a wallaby has been caught in Lyme Regis (UK) by an off-duty fireman. The wallaby is thought to be the same animal recently seen hopping around in a garden by a woman in Blue Waters Drive, Lyme Regis.

A wallaby, thought to be the same animal seen in a woman’s Dorset garden earlier in the week, has been caught.

Off-duty firefighter Virgil Turner rugby-tackled the marsupial to the ground in Lyme Regis town centre.

Jan Cooper had filmed a wallaby hopping around her garden in Blue Waters Drive, Lyme Regis, on Tuesday morning, before it escaped over her fence.

Mr Turner said the wallaby, which has been taken to an animal park in Exminster, Devon, “kicked a bit”.

The 45-year-old added: “My friend called me and he’s a trickster so I thought it was a wind up. But I could hear he was serious.

It is unclear where the animal came from but the RSPCA said a number of them known to live wild in the UK.

Source: ‘Garden wallaby’ caught in Lyme Regis town centre.

Are big cats living in the UK?

A large Black Cat with glowing eyes has been spotted near New Farm Loch, North-East of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. Unfortunately there are no pictures, but the cat appears to have killed a roe deer, which it was eating at the time of the sighting.

Brian Menzies of Moscow said he was travelling home from work when he noticed a ‘large, black creature with glowing eyes’ by the side of the road.

He was then amazed to see that the beast had been chewing on a roe deer.

Brian, who works at Prestwick Airport, said: “I was coming home via the back road from New Farm Loch at just after midnight on Monday when I noticed something bright in the line of my headlights. As I got closer I realised it was a large, black cat and it was beside a roe deer.

“After I passed I went back to take a look and by this time the cat had gone but the injuries to the rear of the deer were clearly visible.

“What I couldn’t work out was how the deer had died. It didn’t look as though a car had hit it as the only injury was to the rear area where the big cat had been.

“I’m not one to usually believe in these things but I saw it with my own eyes and would be intrigued to know if anyone else saw anything at that time. It’s not a busy road but it is well used. I just wish I had my camera with me at the time.”

There have been several big cat sightings in Ayrshire over the years. The most recent one recorded was of a puma-like cat spotted near Midland Farm in Fenwick last summer.

Source: Big cat spotted near dead deer in Moscow (title is inaccurate).