STRANGE ARK
The investigation of natural mysteries with a biological emphasis.
biofortean review: historical papers
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Facts and Observations Showing the Existence of Large Animals in the Ocean, Different in their Shapes and Manners From Whales, and Frequently Exceeding Whales in Magnitude. The Medical Repository (1813)
Additional Proof in Favor of the Existence of Huge Animals, Different from Whales and Larger than They. The Medical Repository (1814)
Elephants in America. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal (1887)
A Giant Story. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal (1891)
Mermaids and Mermen. The English Illustrated Magazine (1900/1901)
A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale. American Museum Novitates (1921)
Captive Pigmy Elephants in America. Journal of Mammalogy (1934)
Mammoth or "Stiff-Legged Bear." American Anthropologist (1937)
An Indian Tradition Relating to the Mastodon. American Anthropologist (1944)
A Last Remnant of Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers in Cuba. The Auk (1948)
New Light on the Cahow, Pterodroma cahow. The Auk (1951)
Asiatic Giant Salamander Caught in the Sacramento River, and an Exotic Skink near San Francisco. Copeia (1951)
On the Name of the Northern Bald Eagle and the Identity of Audubon's Gigantic "Bird of Washington." The Wilson Bulletin (1953)
It's the "Fearsome Warracaba Tiger." Animal Kingdom (1954)
Report of Giant Salamander in California. Copeia (1962)
First New Guinea Record of Thylacinus. Journal of Mammalogy (1963)
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Web Reprints: Book Excerpts, Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles
- An Ohio What-Is-It (1899: from Recreation, letter to the editor)
- The Dingonek (1910: from In Closed Territory, Edgar Beecher Bronson)
- The Taniwha and other Maori Folkloric Creatures (1924: from The Maori, Elsdon Best)
- Inopinatus—The Unexpected (1946: from Natural History, George G. Goodwin), on Macfarlane's Bear
- Sir Charles Lyell on Sea Serpents (1849: from A Second Visit to the United States of North America, C. Lyell)
- The Trail of the Sea-Serpent (1884: from Atlantic Monthly, J. G. Wood)
- I Saw a Sea Monster (1934: from Esquire Magazine for Men, Ralph Bandini)
- Washington Eagle and Fish Hawk (1858: from Wild Scenes and Song-Birds, C. W. Webber)
- A Monster English Snake (1855)
- The "Double-Finned Whale" (1935)
- A Giant Bird in New Guinea (1875)