Category: #Cryptozoology

Is the Javan tiger back from extinction? New study ignites controversy – Nexus Newsfeed

“The new research began after Javan resident and conservationist Ripi Yanur Fajar reported seeing a big cat jump between a road and a plantation near the village of Cipeundeuy in the forest of South Sukabumi in August 2019. Researchers visited the site nine days after the alleged sighting and found a hair on a nearby fence, along with potential tiger footprints and claw marks.“

The new research began after Javan resident and conservationist Ripi Yanur Fajar reported seeing a big cat jump between a road and a plantation near the village of Cipeundeuy in the forest of South Sukabumi in August 2019. Researchers visited the site nine days after the alleged sighting and found a hair on a nearby fence, along with potential tiger footprints and claw marks.
— Read on nexusnewsfeed.com/article/climate-ecology/is-the-javan-tiger-back-from-extinction-new-study-ignites-controversy/

The Javan tiger was a native to the Indonesian island of Java. It was one of three tiger populations that lived on the  Sunda Islands during the last glacial period. The tiger’s natural habitat was decreasing continuously as more land were needed for agriculture. Since no evidence of a Javan tiger was found during several studies in the 1980s and 1990s, it was determined that it was extinct in 2008.

ShukerNature: AN OYSTER-SCALED ODDITY FROM BRAZIL

“In or round 1557, Jean Lerius and two other members of the company were trekking through a forest in the interior of Brazil with some local Tupinamba Indian guides but armed only with swords or bows and arrows when, while passing through a deep valley there, they abruptly encountered at a distance of only thirty paces or so a very large reptilian creature of extremely distinctive appearance, squatting on top of a hill in the heat of noon, with one of its forefeet raised. Lerius described it as a lizard bigger than the body of a man, measuring 5-6 ft long, yet its most eyecatching feature was not its size but rather its extraordinary tegument. For according to Lerius, this unfamiliar animal was entirely covered in rough white scales that resembled oyster shells (and presumably, therefore, were opalescent, or nacreous, i.e. resembling mother of pearl?”

https://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2024/07/an-oyster-scaled-oddity-from-brazil.html

#cryptozoology

It must be amazing to have possibly been the first learned human to see a creature like this. The very roots of cryptozoology, to find undiscovered creatures such as this. I feel like people believe it’s just about filming a weekend stake out at a bigfoot hotspot. And as fun as that is, don’t forget to look around the rest of the forest as you may be the next person to discover something new.

Looking for bigfoot evidence is important to me, as you probably know, but learning the fascinating historical tales of every creature’s first appearance to man is wonderful and fascinating…

TGIF everyone, be safe in the forest this weekend…

And follow along with the Shuker Nature’s blog if you get a chance, link is above….

ShukerNature: AN OYSTER-SCALED ODDITY FROM BRAZIL
— Read on karlshuker.blogspot.com/2024/07/an-oyster-scaled-oddity-from-brazil.html

Rare Thylacine Photos…

Discovered from private collection….

I don’t know why we are all so attached to these creatures, but I do know for me that it’s bad enough man likely caused their extinction, but to also have their last photos and end come from a zoo looking like this zoo does just turns my stomach. Maybe, just maybe if we left them alone in the wild they would still be around. But now the last ones had to also suffer us putting them in this deplorable looking cage and most likely, like most of these old zoos of the time, not treated respectfully.

They must have been so scared, and anxious. I literally pray these creatures are alive just so their extinction was not there.

Rare photographs reveal the long-extinct marsupials in a more delicate light.

One image from a private collection, which Yahoo News has published with permission, shows two lounging side-by-side in the sun. The original photograph, which measures just 8.9cm x 8.9cm, was taken at Beaumaris Zoo in 1918.

It was quietly published in a journal for the first time just four years ago after it was purchased at auction in 2004, and other than a few tiger enthusiasts, few people have been aware of its existence. When it was shared to an online naturalist’s forum in June along with several other generally unknown photos taken in overseas zoos, they created a stir.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/unseen-photos-of-tasmanian-tigers-spark-wonderful-hope-more-could-be-discovered-212721914.html