Google Geeks Glimpse Nessie On Netbook

Earlier this year we had a beef with those brainiacs over at Google when they tried to dismiss the potential discovery of Atlantis via Google Earth with some pointy-headed Silicon Valley subterfuge.

But we’re willing to let bygone be bygones especially in light of the fact that The Loch Ness Monster may have just been spotted on Google Earth.

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Forget Lightning Bugs In A Bottle - The Hunt Is On For The Acid-Spitting Mongolian Death Worm

Imagine our excitement here at the Museum when this headline came across the telex: “Armed with explosives, two men are heading to Mongolia’s Gobi Dessert to find the fabled acid-spitting and lightning-throwing Mongolian death worm.”

This dessert-dwelling cryptid is described as being bright red, and approximately 2-5 feet long. It is reported to slay its victims by either spewing acid into their prey’s faces, or electrocuting them.

In 2005, Richard Freeman boldly led a four-man team from the Centre for Fortean Zoology to Mongolia in search of this mysterious and deadly beast. (This intriguing documentary about the expedition is more than worth a viewing).

While an actual “worm” would most likely not be able to survive in a dessert, theories abound that the Death Worm is most likely some sort of snake, or perhaps an amphisbaenidae.

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Man’s Best Friend Just Got Better; And By “Better” We Mean Glow-In-The-Dark

This just in from South Korea: South Korean scientists say they have engineered four beagles that glow red using cloning techniques that could help develop cures for human diseases.

The four dogs, all named “Ruppy” — a combination of the words “ruby” and “puppy” — look like typical beagles by daylight.

We’re dispatching a team to fly out to South Korea to attempt to determine how glowing red dogs could help cure diseases.

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If Asteroids Didn’t Kill The Dinosaurs, What Did?

The suddenness with which so many species of dinosaurs vanished 65-million-years ago has always suggested a single cataclysmic event, and when a 112-mi., 65-million-year-old crater off the Yucatán peninsula was discovered in 1978 near the town of Chicxulub, it seemed obvious that the smoking gun was a 7-mile wide asteroid larger than Mt. Everest.

But new study in the Journal of the Geological Society suggests that this may not have been the case. The authors argue that the asteroid impact and the dinosaur extinction may have actually occurred 300,000 years apart.

So what did kill off the dinosaurs? And did any survive? And what the heck is swimming around Loch Ness?

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Prehistoric Beast Appears On Good Morning America - No, Not Charlie Gibson

Here at the Museum of SuperNatural History, we’re always pleased to see when monsters and mythic beasts cross-over into the main stream media and get treated with the respect and reverence befitting these cryptozoological wonders.
So one can only imagine the hullabaloo that erupted this morning in the Museum’s cafeteria when Good Morning America began broadcasting a feature on the Loch Ness Monster titled: “Loch Ness Obsession Lives On.”

(Note to interns: please rush a MuSuNaHi Tote Bag over to the segment producer at GMA.)

Suffice it to say, all eyes were affixed to the Philco as an adeptly produced and scholarly toned piece on The Loch Ness Monster gloriously unfolded on the telly. (Although - in the spirit of giving credit where credit is due - this isn’t the first time Good Morning America turned their lenses on a mysterious creature.)

The sea-monster worthy story was replete with an appearance by the well-respected MIT professor Robert Rines, who first encountered ’Nessie during a Scottish Tea Party back in 1972. Rines has doggedly returned to the scene of the sighting every year for the last 37 years, intent on capturing physical and/or photographic evidence Loch’s legendary denizen.

Rines is convinced that whatever is in the Loch “...is probably a progenitor of something that should have been dead 65 million years ago.” For those who would pooh-pooh the professors prehistoric premise, we would just like to remind them of the Coelacanth - dubbed “the living fossil” - this extraordinary creature was believed to have gone extinct at the time of the dinosaur, until a living specimen was inexplicably rediscovered in 1938.

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Bad News From Norway For Loch Ness Monster Doubters Who Say “No Way”

Our peak-caps are off to our colleagues at the Natural History Museum of Oslo University who have discovered a giant fossil of a pre-historic sea monster dubbed “Predator X.”

According to Joern Hurum, the museum’s associate professor of vertebrate paleontology, the creature’s bite was “...much more powerful than a T-Rex. With a skull that’s more than 10 feet long you’d expect a bite to be powerful, but this is off the scale.”

The general consensus is that the briney beast’s bite could easily crush a Hummer.

Predator X falls into the category of pliosaur, and at an estimated length of 50 feet long, it is easily the largest variety of pliosaur to date. It’s long been theorized that one of the greatest cryptozoological beasts - The Loch Ness Monster - is indeed, a pliosaur.

While know-it-alls and pointy-heads are quick to dismiss the possibility that such a creature still exists and inhabits Loch Ness, countless eyewitness sightings and filmed and video taped evidence continues to surface (no pun intended) regularly.

More significantly, regardless of where you might fall on the pro-or-con Loch Ness Monster scale, the discovery of this fossil continues to argue the case that the vast mysteries of this world remain to be revealed. Maybe nothing illustrates this point as much as this compilation of the strange and previously unknown specimens of living sea life which were washed ashore as a result of the cataclysmic tsunami caused by the Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004.

Interesting side note, although not normally considered a hot-bed for paranormal activity, Scandinavia recently made SuperNatural news with the riveting reports of a profoundly anit-social primate named Santino who was taking up arms against the zoo’s keepers and guests.

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Dinosaur Depiction Discovered On Dilapidated Cambodian Temple

The Ta Prohm Temple was completed in 1186, and stands in the middle of the remote jungles of Angkor, Cambodia by the Khmer civilization.

A recent expedition to the site revealed a startling discovery: carved into the walls of the temple appears to be the image of a Stegosaurus.

Naturally, the traditional scientific community has already begun to volley rationalizations and excuses for how the depiction of a living, breathing, previously-believed-to-be-extinct-for-more-than-155-million-years dinosaur wound up on the wall of a relatively modern structure.

But we contend that this recent discovery at Ta Prohm is just one more substantial example of art and literature that has often - directly and indirectly - alluded to humans and dinosaurs co-existing in the same eras. Some of the more famous are the Palestrina Mosaic, and the Anasazi Petroglyphs.

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Chimpanzees Capable Of Premeditation; Uhm... Anyone Else See Where This Is Headed?

Every morning, Santino, an apparently aptly-named 31-year old chimpanzee, methodically collects rocks and literally stock-piles them in anticipation of visitors arriving at the Stockholm zoo. And when said visitors do arrive, Santino begins angrily hurling the stones at the unsuspecting gawkers.

This seemingly unprecedented complex anti-social behavior confirmed researchers suspicions that - just like humans - apes are capable of preparing for future.

A future that - if the chimps get their way - will probably look a lot like this.

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Yet Even More Yeti Evidence; Expert Enquires: Who Fakes Footprints At 19,000 Feet?

Respected and revered wildlife expert Sir David Attenborough - who happens to be an actual Knight - went on record stating that he is still “baffled by the Abominable Snowman,” and emphasized that “very convincing footprints have been found at 19,000 feet.”

Just to put it into perspective, 19,000 feet is roughly the altitude which mountaineers refer ominously and appropriately to as “The Death Zone” - since the amount of oxygen in the air can no longer sustain human life.

Attenborough’s implication is that it is highly unlikely that anyone would have the means or the wherewithal to attempt to perpetrate a hoax at such dizzying Himalayan-heights.

In addition to all of the compelling footprints that have been filmed and photographed over the years is another profound piece of evidence - hair samples discovered in the summer of 2008 near the Indian-Bangladeshi border.

To date, tests performed on the thick, wiry hairs have determined that they do not belong to any of the indigenous creatures known to inhabit these cryptozoological climes.

Fun facts: the term “Yeti” is derived from the Tibetan language and means “rock bear.” While the first authoritative description of the creature was made in 1889 by the British explorer Major L A Waddel, it wasn’t until 1921 - during a Royal Geographical Society Everest expedition that found footprints made by “a wild man of the snows” at 21,000 feet - that the term “Abominable Snowman” was dubbed.

Likewise, over the years, a variety of luminaries have also argued for the existence of the Abominable Snowman. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Everest, led an expedition to find the Yeti in 1962, and famed Hollywood-everyman Jimmy Stewart has long been rumored to have smuggled remains of the creature out of India in what has become known as the Pangboche Yeti hand incident of 1959.

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Fossilized Mammoth Captivates Hollywood; Coincidentally, Jerry Lewis Wins Academy Award

A nearly intact Wooly Mammoth skeleton has been unearthed at a construction site near the famed La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, California.

Historically, the tar pits have yielded between 3 and 4 million fossilized remains over the years, but the discovery of the Mammoth remains is being described as one of the most significant finds in more than a century.

Especially exciting, is the fact that both of the Mammoth’s tusks are so astonishingly well-preserved.

Speaking of well-preserved: as mentioned in the headline, legendary funny-man Jerry Lewis was honored at the 2009 Academy Awards Ceremony. Here at the Museum, we’ve always been fascinated by the octogenarian comic-genius’ jet-black hair, and the adulation heaped on him by the French.

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Charles Darwin - Naturalist, Cryptozoologist, Birthday Boy

February 12th, 2009 marks the 200th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin, whose publication of The Origin of the Species first posited that all life evolved over time from one common ancestor.

But rather than dwell on the now centuries old debate between creationism and evolution, our friends over at Cryptomundo have chosen to commemorate the late, great naturalist’s life by illuminating Darwin’s own cryptozoological connection - specifically the Mylodon darwinii - an obscure, but nonetheless intriguing cryptid named in honor of Darwin.

It’s a truly compelling tale, and we couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate the good Captain of The HMS Beagle’s birthday.

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To Paraphrase Dr. Seuss: "One Fish, Two Fish, Killer Carnivorous Squirt Fish..."

More news from off-the coast of Australia - scientists exploring the 5,900-foot deep Tasman Fracture using a remotely operated submersible dubbed “Jason”discovered what they described as a “Seuss-like ” Sea Creature that devours its prey in a manner akin to the Venus flytrap.

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Could Sasquatch Be The Last Cave Man?

Over the last decade or so, speculation began to arise that Neanderthal Man and Cro Magnon Man were two separate branches of the evolutionary tree, rather than sequential links in the evolutionary chain.

It is now generally accepted that this is the case, which subsequently begged the question: “Then what happened to Neanderthal Man?”

Interestingly enough, an article in the Lincoln Star, published in July 29, 1934, posed this very same question 85 years ago. Their theory? That the Sasquatch is the “Last Cave Man.”

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Big Foot Article Uncovered From 1935

In 1935 an article ran in The Fresno Bee with the headline “Canada Reports Race Of Monster Men In Rockies.”

The article refers to the creatures by their Native American name “Sasquatch,” and describes them as “remnants of a lost race of Wild Men.”

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Loch Ness Mystery Turns 75

Reports of a creature in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back to 565AD, but it wasn’t until photographic evidence began turning up in the 1930s that the search for the truth began in earnest.

The Loch Ness Monster has long been suspected to be a plesiosaur - a dinosaur that thrived from the end of the Jurassic era to the K-T Extinction Event that took place at the end of the Cretaceous period.

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Cryptozoology Comes Of Age

As our planet edges closer to the apocalypse, the field of cryptozoology continues to move from a shadow science, to a credible academic pursuit.

Noted cryptozoologist John Hodgmon puts in all into perspective: “For every single square mile that man has walked on Earth, three hundred square miles exist that have never been touched by human feet.”

And as the institutions and conventions we’ve put our faith in continue to crumble and wast away, a willingness to entertain the impossible seems to be growing.

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Yeti Tracks Spotted In Nepal

Yoshitera Takahashi - leader of Nepal’s Yeti Project - spent 42 days on top of a 25,000 ft peak in the Himalayas in an effort to capture images and physical evidence of the legendary Abominable Snowman.

It has long been theorized that creatures like the Yeti and North America’s Sasquatch could be descendants of the now-extinct 10-foot tall ape-like creature known as Gigantopithecus.

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Now If Only It Breathed Fire

Here at the museum, we are big believers in Haldane’s Law that states “The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine...” and the discovery of a giant Pterosaur that took flight on all fours only makes us want to yell “Told you so” in Latin.

Weighing in at an estimated 500 pounds and standing taller than a giraffe, these beasts took flight by making a leaping vertical launch in less than a second without the aid of wind or wings.

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Mekong A “Treasure Trove” Of Over 1,000 Newly Discovered Species

From the Laotian Rock Rat - believed to have been extinct for more than 11,000,000 years - to a hot pink cyanide-producing “Dragon Milipede,” well over 1,000 species of exotic creatures have been discovered in the Mekong Delta over the last 10 years.

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