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, […]

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 […]

I think the below says it all…
The Yangtze River dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), an obligate freshwater odontocete known only from the middle-lower Yangtze River system and neighbouring Qiantang River in eastern China, has long been recognized as one of the world’s rarest and most threatened mammal species. The status of the baiji has not […]

This has got to be one of the most bizarre stories to come out of Iraqi – a seriously weird, some have even said scary rumour has popped up, claiming giant man-eating badgers have been released by British troops in the port city or Basra.
Several creatures have been caught and killed by locals, but have […]

On Tuesday 10th July a Giant Squid was fond washed up on Ocean Beach in Strahan, Tasmania.
It measured 1 meter (3 feet) wide and 8 meters (28 feet) long from the top of its body to the end of its tentacles, and weighed approximately 550 pounds said Genefor Walker-Smith, a zoologist from the Tasmanian Museum.
The […]

Man, everything changes so quickly. I have been in France and Italy for the last two months with my girlfriend, travelling and exploring a part of the world that is right on our doorstep (I live in the UK just in case you didn’t know), yet for some reason we rarely visit.
We had planed to […]

Famed for hunting the Mongolian Deathworm, the self-made Cryptozoologist Ivan Mackerle receives an excellent review in the Prague Post.
Mackerle, 65, and his small band of friends have travelled across the Gobi desert, hacked through the jungles of Madagascar, and scuba dived remote Micronesian islands to name but a few.
Ivan was one the main influences for […]

One does not expect to discover a bird species new to science while wandering around the continental United States. Nor does one expect that such a species would provide much insight into how co-evolutionary arms races promote speculation.
On both fronts a paper to appear in The American Naturalist proves otherwise. Julie Smith, now at Pacific […]