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It's confirmed as a small alligator, through witness photographs, but still hasn't been caught. (News source.)

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No, not a story from one of Fort's books, an Australian doctor was cracking eggs for his meal, and found a dead gecko inside of one. He relates how this may be happened here, with pictures here.

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Albino tadpoles have been reported from a pond in Wales. (News source.)

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A small crocodilian was seen in Lake Hickory, NC, but as it is the wrong part of the state to be part of the known alligator population, it's a suspected release, possibly a caiman. (News source.)

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A large well-muscled orange tabby housecat (farmcat?) was photographed and thought a cougar by a Landenberg, PA, man. (Story and photos here.) Brandywine Zoo took a look and immediately recognized it as a domestic cat. The man isn't so certain, and now his neighbor says he's seen the feline and also thinks it's a cougar. (That story here.) The problem is that it is obviously not a cougar. It's

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No new sightings, but another article on the so-far futile search for more ivorybill woodpeckers. (News source.)

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Printable, downloadable ebook versions (PDF) of The Historical Bigfoot, Boss Snakes, and The Great Sea-Serpent are now available. For these three titles, pricing is at $9.95, and an affiliates referral fee of $3.00 for each referred ebook purchase of these titles is available. Links with details at CoachwhipBooks.com, on the individual title pages.

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"Black lions" are reported from South Africa. (News source.) Sightings of a big black cat in Tynedale (UK). (News source.)

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The large (up to 600 micrometers) bacteria Epulopiscium, found in the gut of the unicornfish, carries up to 200,000 copies of its genome, far more than is found in any other organism. (News source.)

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More stories here on cougar-like sightings from Ontario.

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A new species of darter has been discovered in West Virginia. (News source.) "A new species of fish has been discovered in the lower Elk River near Charleston by a West Virginia University professor. Stuart Welsh, assistant professor in the Wildlife and Fisheries Resources Program in the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences, named the new species Crystallaria cincotta, or

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Just added to BioFortean Review: The Carraguar, or Night-Tiger, of Colima, Mexico Chad Arment

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An odd little review here of the Mande Barung, of India's Galo Hills in Meghalaya.

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A dead 12-foot python was found in a channel of Nippersink Lake (near Chicago, IL). It's thought that snappers may have eaten the head. (News source.) (I'm thinking retic morph, as it's oddly patterned, but it looks like it is badly decomposed, so can't be certain from the poor images shown... doesn't appear to be a boa or Burmese.)

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Found this one while browsing on Amazon, released in March 2008: Ancient Lake, by David Coleman. Looks more like straight horror with a cryptozoological creature (Bigfoot-related, from what I gather on the details page), but could be interesting.

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I've just added a couple of downloadable papers (from 1813 and 1814) on early accounts of giant squid to the BioFortean Review PDF Archive.

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An Alaska newspaper recounts the story of the 1930 Glacier Island carcase. (If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time the whole story was been given.) (News source.)

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A black feline in Spain is being blamed for attacks on pigs. (News source.)

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A California man caught a black feline on a digital camera trap, and wonders if it might be a black mountain lion. Experts note that the feline is too far away, and the picture too blurred, to be identified. (News source.)

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The Lake City (MN) Tourism Board is offering a $50,000 reward for "undisputable photographic and scientific evidence" of their local lake monster, from Lake Pepin. Of course, they don't want DNA evidence, as they don't want to "hurt" the creature, whatever it is. Just what we need, more stupid publicity ploys exploiting cryptozoology for tourism dollars. (News source.)

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Two new localities are now suspected for the rare giant Palouse earthworm. Specimens are thought probable for this species, though not conclusively identified. (News source.)

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Some interesting details about the bioluminescence of the colossal squid at NatGeo.

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Biologists knew that when the Yolo Bypass flood corridor between Sacramento and Davis floods, the juvenile chinook salmon "grew like gangbusters," but they didn't know why, until they discovered that the fish were feasting on midges. After taking these small flies to an expert, he realized that the flies were a new species that lies dormant in the soil until flooding occurs. (News source.)

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A new species is being described in the news as the largest gecko yet found in India, at 250 mm. (I'm a bit leery of this claim; the Tokay gecko, for example, is found in northern India, and can surpass that length in at least parts of its wide range.) The new species has been named Hemidactylus aaronbaueri, after lizard expert Dr. Aaron Bauer of Villanova. (Dr. Bauer, of course, should be a

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The Chicago cougar came from Wisconsin. (News source.) Frankford, Ontario, has a cougar roaming the area. (News source.)

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