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“While Miss Ella Burdick and some friends were out fishing on Lake St. Clair, one evening last week at sundown, a dark peculiar looking object was seen coming up the lake. They rowed very close to the object and were able to get a good look at it. It appeared to have a head somewhat like a dog, with huge eyes protruding and tusk-like projections on each side of the head. Its body appeared to lie some seven or eight feet under water. Some fishermen also saw it and claimed it was some sort of sea serpent. It was certainly a very dangerous and horrible-looking object and was swimming at a very rapid rate.” Excerpt from cryptozoo-oscity about the 1800s sighting of the Lake St. Clair sea serpent…
“The dinosaur tracks, believed to date back to the Cretaceous Period around 66 million years ago, sit only inches away from the intricate carvings. Some petroglyphs were discovered just two to four inches from the fossilized prints, indicating a deliberate placement.
“The individuals who crafted the petroglyphs were acutely aware of the footprints, likely selecting the location precisely because of them,” explained Leonardo Troiano, an archaeologist from Brazil’s National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage. According to the research team, this suggests a conscious effort by ancient peoples to engage with these ancient remnants.”
To be a fly on the wall to see how early man reacted or what their understanding of dinosaurs were. I’m positive about one thing, they didn’t think they weren’t real!
This is Henry, a crocodile that was captured back in 1903 by elephant catcher called Sir Henry. They are guessing he was born around 1900, but since he was in the wild that aren’t exactly sure. They celebrate his birthday on December 16th making him 125 years old this year. Go Henry!
Henry measures over 16 feet 5 inches from snout to tail and weighs 1,543 pounds. Henry has fathered thousands of offspring and currently resides at Crocworld Conservation where he’s lived since 1985. He resides with another senior crocodile, Colgate, and six wives! Henry is likely a very happy croc. They are planning a big celebration for Henry’s birthday this year and rightly so. I’d love to be there, but since most of his likely will not be able to attend you can check back in to their website and see some pics and videos of the day.
Here’s a little video of Henry, it’s amazing to see his size!
Some days when you turn on the news, it’s all just too much, so it was nice to stumble on an old YouTube video of something wonderful. Someone doing good things in the world. Something not negative.
Meet Norman Smith, the owl man of Logan airport. Specifically, the snowy owl man. Owls have been an ongoing problem for airports along the east coast especially Logan airport’s due to it’s flat tundra like environment and by being surrounded on three sides by water, reminding them of their home in the arctic. They come on by for a visit every year.
But now, thanks to this man, the way the airports deal with them has changed for the better. In the past, the problem was solved by the airport having people go out and shooting and killing these beautiful creatures. But times have changed, and I’m so relieved it has.
Photo by Mark Kent, Creative Commons
Norman Smith, now 73, is a raptor specialist who has worked for the Audubon for decades and who also started the The Snowy Owl Project. Smith created the protocols to safely remove the owls as well as a special net trapping system to help catch and protect these owls at the airport. He bands them for study and releases them. He has now dedicated 43 years to these owls and has saved at least 900 owls to date. Amazing.
Other airports were slower to catch on to these protocols. In 2014 New York’s JFK shot 50 to 60 of these creatures and when the press caught wind, they too adopted these protocols.
In 2023 and 24’ these owls numbers were decimated by the bird flu and climate change, every safe owl from Logan may mean this species will survive.
Snowy owls don’t have exact fixed migration routes they travel from the Arctic to the North East based on food sources, which we seem to have in abundance for them to return here.
Everyone should find out how their airports are handling wildlife. Have an active voice in their safety.
Norman Smith is a hero to me and if you’d like to learn more about his work you can check out this short documentary by Anna Miller.
Humanities greed and destruction has made many creatures extinct, or at serious risk for extinction. While research companies such as Colossal are trying to bring back those that are extinct, some conservation experts are simply trying to save what exists today. Which brings us to the strange, but beautiful looking creature.
This amazing animal once walked with the ice age giants like the wooly mammoths. Their image is painted on cave walls by early man. But sadly, like the mammoths, they too were hunted to near extinction for their hides and horns.
These creatures somehow survived us, and it’s worth telling their story.
The Saiga antelope’s story stretches back over 100,000 years,
when it roamed alongside mammoths, woolly rhinos, and cave lions. Fossil evidence suggests that it was once widespread across Europe and Asia, even reaching Britain and Alaska during glacial periods. Its uniquely structured snout helps filter out dust and regulate air temperature, something that helped it survive in frigid landscapes.
Despite surviving the Pleistocene mass extinctions, the Saiga began to retreat eastward due to climatic shifts and human expansion. Today, it remains in isolated pockets across Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, and Uzbekistan.
Showing its long history beside man, it appears in our Mythology and Folklore record. It has had cultural and spiritual significance across Eurasia, where nomadic peoples revered it as a “messenger between worlds”.
In Turkic and Mongol tribes, the Saiga was considered a “divine messenger of Tengri”, (the sky god). Its horns were believed to carry mystical energy, and were used in rituals and offerings to bring prosperity and good fortune to their people.
In Siberian folklore it was said to be capable of summoning rain during times of drought. Some legends even spoke of Saiga antelope “communicating with spirits”, guiding shamans through the invisible realms.
In Kazakh folklore the Saiga represents rebirth and endurance. Some ancient stories tell of wounded warriors seeing visions of Saiga leading them back home.
Art by Сауле Баймышева
The Saiga antelope appeared in prehistoric cave art, suggesting it was a part of early human life. In the Cosquer Cave a near France, it was depicted alongside bison, deer, and horses. This artwork confirms it’s part in the Ice Age ecosystem, and its connection with early hunters.
To save this beautiful creature from going out like the mammoth, it is in protected status. They are cracking down on poachers in the area, the horns are wanted for Chinese medicine, creating an underground trade for the animal. In 2015 a devastating disease wiped out 200,000 of them. It’s at risk from both climate change and habitat destruction. So far, global conservation efforts have gotten the population up to over a million. And currently migration corridors have been safeguarded to ensure the species can roam freely…
As relieved as I am to see that this species is rebounding and protected, all animals are in constant dire threat from us. It’s something that keeps me up at night. We need to change, we need to stop tearing down woodlands and just live within what we have already constructed, if we don’t it’s the beginning of the end for all of us…
According to the Daily Mail a team of American archaeologists believe they have uncovered the remains of Noah’s Ark.
Researchers working at a site in Turkey known as the Durupınar Formation uncovered a “tunnel” located under a boat-shaped formation, which matches the Biblical description of Noah’s Ark.
The site is only 18 miles from Mount Ararat, which has long been rumored to have been the final destination of the ship. “We’re not expecting something that’s fully preserved,” lead researcher Andrew Jones said. “What’s left is the chemical imprint, pieces of wood, and in the ground, the shape of a hall.”
“All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom-zoom-zoom in a pum pum, just shake ya rump”…
-Wreckz N Effect
Forget tarot cards—there’s a better game in town, rumpology, also known as buttology, the brainchild of the eccentric Jackie Stallone, yes, the mother of thee Sylvester Stallone. Jackie Stallone didn’t just give us Rocky; she gave us the art of reading rear ends.
So, what exactly is rumpology? Well, it’s the practice of analyzing the shape, lines, and crevices of a person’s posterior to learn their personality traits, future, and even health. Think of it like palm reading, but for your backside.
Jackie claimed that the left cheek represents the past, the right cheek the future, and the cleft (yes, the crack) is the line of your destiny. I couldn’t make this stuff up even if I wanted to.
Jackie Stallone, who was also an astrologer and wrestling promoter, believed that rumpology had roots in ancient civilizations like the Greeks and Romans. There is absolutely no evidence to support that theory. I’ve looked.
Jackie offered rumpology readings via photographs of people’s backsides, although sadly Jackie Stallone passed in 2002, just imagine the readings she could now via zoom!
But if you think her passing meant the end of rumpology you’d be wrong, it’s still being practiced today. The world renowned psychic (as she refers to herself) Sam Amos, offers rump readings for a fee. I’ll include her information below in case you’re feeling brave. But, if you do get a reading I hope you’ll let me know how it goes!
As a quick warning, don’t reveal that rump until you’re sure it’s really an experienced rumpologist, I don’t think I need to tell you all the things that could go wrong otherwise!
On a beautiful Friday morning, (that they said would be rainy) I took an early morning walk through Two Ponds Conservation area in Falmouth Massachusetts. This was my first time at this trail but I was excited to check it out finally and check it off my “want to go box” on Google Maps.
Once a popular 9-hole, par 3 golf course, the land was donated to The 300 Committee Land Trust in 2014, since then it’s been protected land.
This 14.75-acre features Jones Pond and Sols Pond, and an Atlantic white cedar swamp. The swamp was the main attraction I was coming for, but I stayed a little longer for the bird songs. I even learned a little something. I learned that old sea captains brought the water from the cedar swamps on board because the acidity in the water made it safer to drink and that the early European settlers used the wood from the cedars because they resisted rot and insects.
The Upper Wetland Loop Trail has a beautiful boardwalk and viewing platform where I sat on a bench and just absorbed the view for a bit. While I was hanging I was visited by a beautiful bird that was not at all afraid of me being there, and just sat on a branch above my head singing away.
The red winged blackbird, a beautiful bird with a little yellow on his wing was singing away.
Warm sunlight, beautiful view and great music was very relaxing. I highly recommend this trail if you’re in the area.
You can do the shorter loop or the extended one that includes a connecting forest network and spend the day like I did. Either way taking that second for yourself in nature will be with it!
Well, I have now watched and reviewed my share of movies about Bigfoot lately. But I think they may have just been leading up to this gem.
Yeti, Giant of the 20th Century. This movie May have left me speechless, and type less for that matter. But I’ll get it together. Let me pause a moment to get my thoughts together.
Yup. Still recovering from the shock and awe. So I will start with the easy part. The plot summary. Scientists have found a giant frozen Yeti. Then those same scientists do a series of ridiculous things to defrost said Yeti and bring him back to life.
I mean it’s no big deal to find and resurrect a Yeti the size of King Kong right? And while we are speaking of the king of the monsters. This movie paid homage to (Yeah that sounds better than ripping off. Right?) the king himself.
There is even a Faye Raye for the giant hominid too. Let’s not talk about the nipple scene! But I digress. This movie took me to places I never wanted to ever go from the beginning. Like up 10,000 feet to find a frozen Yeti. And Yeti, I guess can be size of a large dinosaur. (Don’t ask me why we aren’t finding those bones by now).
To defrost and reanimate him they take him up in a helicopter bring him to a place where they recreate the same environment they just found him frozen in and began the thawing. Huh? Interesting.
Then yada yada, they finally defrost him. He falls in love with the scientists granddaughter. (Faye) and takes her, the kid brother and dog with them. So then one of the leads says to granddaughter, “If you stay any longer he might expect other things from you too!?!?! Omg! Someone pause the movie! Scrape my ears! And my brain! We did not need to go there!
And as if that is not bad enough. The local store owners are making Yeti T-shirts that look as if blue Yeti hands are reaching around from the back and grabbing the women’s boobs!
Who made this movie? Russ Meyer?
So without giving away all the wonderful twists and turns of this spectacular movie. I will say, You do get your big Yeti on the top of a high rise scene. Move over Kong here comes something hairier!
So check out this movie for a good laugh or to experience Larry David level of awkwardness. Remember I warned you, this is not your father’s Yeti film.
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*This post was originally released on my former blog,written a number of years ago…
“Relying on deft genetic engineering and ancient, preserved DNA, Colossal scientists deciphered the dire wolf genome, rewrote the genetic code of the common gray wolf to match it, and, using domestic dogs as surrogate mothers, brought Romulus, Remus, and their sister, 2-month-old Khaleesi, into the world during three separate births last fall and this winter—effectively for the first time de-extincting a line of beasts whose live gene pool long ago vanished. TIME met the males (Khaleesi was not present due to her young age) at a fenced field in a U.S. wildlife facility on March 24, on the condition that their location remain a secret to protect the animals from prying eyes.”
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