A 1910 book about funny critters that may or may not have vexed lumberjacks of yesteryear, now abailable as an online hypertext edition.
Archive for the ‘cryptozoology’ Category
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
July 24, 2008Other blogs.
July 8, 2008You’re stuck with ’em for now, I can’t be bothered.
It’s Sea Monster Week at Tetrapod Zoology.
Caenorhabditis elegans lacks eyes, yet sees, per The Other 95%.
A Neatorama trifecta, as they bring us the giant rubber energy-crisis-solving snake, the Nietzsche Family Circus, and I Met the Walrus.
The Reptoid Research Center.
May 6, 2008Martian trilobites, crinoids, and seashells.
April 25, 2008This just in- dragonflies eat midgets!
April 9, 2008According to this Wikipedia article, at around 5 pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2008:
“Dragonflies typically eat mosquitoes, little peoples, and other small insects…”
“Little peoples” linking here.
Before germ theory…
March 13, 2008According to Pink Tentacle:
How to make an edible Flying Spaghetti Monster
January 11, 2008(da pic iza link, natch)
Dig also the Flickr set. From Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
Elsewhere geblogkt: Neatorama, Pharyngula, BoingBoing
Speaking of Eurypterids…
December 12, 2007
weird_crustacean [sic]
Originally uploaded by Ayla Sunshine
Update 20100215: Before the adolescent troll pile on in the comments gets any worse, let me explain that this is a production still from “Chased by Dinosaurs”: wkpda, YouTube.
The Snouters- Form and Life of the Rhinogrades by Harald Stumpke
November 4, 2007…being the natural history of an adaptive radiation of small mammals whose key innovation was a remarkable nasal plasticity. Long out of print but not particularly hard to find, I’ve scanned the plates and figures and put them on Flickr. But you really owe it to yourself to scare up a copy of the book, particularly if you’re a fan of the Codex Seraphinianus, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, that kinda thing. The wikipedia treatment is pretty anemic. That’s all the time I got, fortunately for you a real blogger is more forthcoming with details and links, and has even found taxidermied specimens !(1, 2)
Clayton Bailey, aka Dr. Gladstone, a childhood memory recovered by the internet.
September 11, 2007I’ve been trying to figure out whose exhibit it was that I saw at the de Young Museum when I was eight (’75), turns out to be this guy. He had an alter-ego, Dr. Gladstone, who discovered a process by which bone turned to ceramic, and “unearthed or created” ceramic fossils from the pre-credulus era of the Bone Age that were on display. He also lectured on the process.
via (via), finally.