The Ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas), also known as the False Vampire Bat is a bat endemic to Australia, named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings that makes it appear ghostly at night.
The Ghost Bat is the only carnivorous bat in Australia and is also one of the largest microbats in the world. It is largely insectivorous but will also consume frogs, lizards, and other small animals, including other bats. It hunts by sight as well as with echolocation. After killing its prey with its powerful bite, it carries it to a feeding perch to eat.
Ghost Bats inhabit northern Australia, from the east to the west coast. They roost in caves, mines, and tunnels in small colonies, usually of less than a hundred bats.
One of the world’s most elusive mammals has revealed itself.
Footprints and scat belonging to the Visayan spotted deer have been found deep in the Philippines jungle.
Less than 300 of the deer are thought to remain, confined to just two islands, making it one of the most vulnerable of all mammals.
The discovery proves a small population survives in the wild, despite the ongoing threat to its survival from hunting and deforestation.
An expedition team led by Craig Turner and James Sawyer decided to explore the inner forests of the North Negros Natural Park (NNNP) on Negros Island in the Philippines.
The park is considered an important biodiversity hotspot, yet it’s one of the most vulnerable forest ecosystems in the world, with only 16,500h of forest remaining in a park of more than 80,000h.
It is also one of the least explored of all tropical forests.
A long forgotten documentary which includes an analysis of a rare film taken by George Adamski, an icon from the early days of the modern age of UFO sightings, has surfaced on YouTube thanks to the effort of historian Neil Gould.
The 7 segment YouTube film is well worth watching in its entirety, but a particularly compelling segment discusses a seldom seen film, originally shot by Adamski himself in the presence of Madeline Rotterfor in the back yard of her house in Silver Spring, Maryland, in February 1965.
What the segment shows is the analysis done on the film, which–along with the testimony of Rotterfor, Sir Desmond Leslie and others who knew Adamski personally–makes a compelling case for the authenticity of the non-human origin of the saucer seen to dance in the sky.
Layered behind the photo analysis conducted at Kodak labs are a number of testimonials and accounts that shed new light on one of the most familiar names in early UFO history.
Interesting video of unknown lights and what appears to be a lot of helicopters over Horn Lake, south of Memphis (exact location unknown). Half way through the video 3 new lights seem to appear out of thin air below the original group.
A word of warning, this video contains swearing.
Video caption: Around 10:30 a formation of lights sit in the sky as helicopters head for it. And towards the end watch as 3 lights appear below them. You get to see one appear out of nowhere. Its amazing thing to see.im excited.Hope to get more videos of these strange lights. We did go down to memphis but its too far so we stopped.
Pat Delgardo who helped pioneer Crop Circle research has died at age of 90. His long time friend and co-authoer Colin Andrews writes:
Pat Delgado, famous for being the person who started serious research into what became known as crop circles, passed away at 8.30 AM (U.K.) today in Winchester Hospital, Hampshire, England.
Pat was a very young 90 years of age, when cancer struck and took a very rapid toll in recent weeks.
He was a compassionate sensitive human being, an excellent engineer and reputable healer. He was a dear friend and my co-author who was largely responsible for one of the happiest periods of my life.
Australia has now changed the protection levels for the Tasmanian devil, the world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore, from vulnerable to endangered.
The devil population, which is found on the island state of Tasmania, has been decimated by a facial tumour disease.
The number of Tasmanian devils in the wild is thought to have fallen by up to 70% since the mid-1990s.
The new conservation status will give the animals greater protection under national environment laws.
A male wallaby which escaped from a petting zoo two years ago appears to have found a female to mate with – which has now been spotted in a garden carrying a baby.
Experts say wallabies are “renowned” for being able to find each other in the wild and it is thought the pair have begun breeding.
It is believed the female, who also escaped (from where?) found and mated with a male which escaped from a farm near St Endellion in 2007.
A new study has shown how Native Americans had sophisticated knowledge of tooth anatomy, which allowed them to perform some remarkable dentistry, adding semiprecious gems to their teeth.
The study show how they were adding “bling” to their teeth as far back as 2,500 years ago, probably using a drill-like device with a hard stone such as obsidian, which is capable of puncturing bone and herb based anaesthetic to numb the pain.
A rather pointless exercise, but still a fun way to kill 10 minutes! This is a randomly generated list or “Word-Cloud” of words that can be found here on the front (Home) page of Cryptoworld.
Colin Andrews delivered his first punch in New York last month at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, when he disputed the British Governments official statement regards involvement of the Ministry of Defence in crop circle and Ufo research. Andrews showed documentary Evidence from his new book ‘Government Circles’ that they lied and not just once.
Punch two came in Washington D.C. onlydays later during a fire storm presentation at the X-Conference where additional indisputable evidence was shown in the presence of the original government author, Nick Pope.
During the week that followed Andrews appeared live on BBC radio again with Nick Pope where, during heavy questioning, Pope admitted that Andrews was right and effectively withdraw much of the original government statement.
The actual government position and involvement, as shown by Andrews are extremely important for both the crop circles and UFO subjects and demonstrate why we need to be vigilant with the accuracy and truthfulness of statements made by governments, EVEN during this ’so called’ period of CHANGE and transparency.
