Lana
@pondicherryyyy.bsky.social
prolly talkin shit about a pretty sunset
trying (and failing) to write about wildmen
trying (and failing) to write about wildmen
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And here's the Anomalist article.
August 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
And here's the Anomalist article.
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Here's Loren's piece,let me know if you can't read it and I can scan...
August 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Here's Loren's piece,let me know if you can't read it and I can scan...
@tetzoo.bsky.social Do you still have copies of these articles around? If so, when you find the time, could you send me pictures of em here or by email? If not, no worries, apologies for an out of the blue ask
August 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
@tetzoo.bsky.social Do you still have copies of these articles around? If so, when you find the time, could you send me pictures of em here or by email? If not, no worries, apologies for an out of the blue ask
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Man I miss bones and pelts cryptozoology. It's all demons and ultradimensional John Keel ghosts these days.
At least Grover Krantz hunting for Bigfoot while wearing incredibly silly artificial eyebrows has a certain charm to it.
At least Grover Krantz hunting for Bigfoot while wearing incredibly silly artificial eyebrows has a certain charm to it.
July 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Man I miss bones and pelts cryptozoology. It's all demons and ultradimensional John Keel ghosts these days.
At least Grover Krantz hunting for Bigfoot while wearing incredibly silly artificial eyebrows has a certain charm to it.
At least Grover Krantz hunting for Bigfoot while wearing incredibly silly artificial eyebrows has a certain charm to it.
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Just found out that there was an alleged great auk photo taken in Cornwall back in 2014
June 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Just found out that there was an alleged great auk photo taken in Cornwall back in 2014
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When the light dies, NIGHTFALL begins.
Prepare for the next thrilling chapter in the #PineRidgeAnthology, from the world of “The Hatchling.”
Coming this Summer.
Prepare for the next thrilling chapter in the #PineRidgeAnthology, from the world of “The Hatchling.”
Coming this Summer.
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When the light dies, NIGHTFALL begins.
Prepare for the next thrilling chapter in the #PineRidgeAnthology, from the world of “The Hatchling.”
Coming this Summer.
Prepare for the next thrilling chapter in the #PineRidgeAnthology, from the world of “The Hatchling.”
Coming this Summer.
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Live discussion happening today at Monsters on the Edge! .... www.youtube.com/live/zboXOG3...
Monsters on the Edge #110 It’s a Dinosaurs world! with guest Dr. Darren Naish
Welcome to Monsters on the Edge, a show exploring creatures at the edge of our reality in forests, cities, skies, and waters. We examine these creatures and talk to the researchers studying them.
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June 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Live discussion happening today at Monsters on the Edge! .... www.youtube.com/live/zboXOG3...
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this one is my favorite because it was posted to a forum as "probable escaped orangutan".
January 20, 2024 at 4:27 PM
this one is my favorite because it was posted to a forum as "probable escaped orangutan".
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is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
January 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
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March 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by @deanrlomax.bsky.social & @columbiaup.bsky.social) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's a prehistoric wasp injecting an egg into a fly pupa.
#PaleoArt #Xenomorph #JurassicWorld
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by @deanrlomax.bsky.social & @columbiaup.bsky.social) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's a prehistoric wasp injecting an egg into a fly pupa.
#PaleoArt #Xenomorph #JurassicWorld
March 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by @deanrlomax.bsky.social & @columbiaup.bsky.social) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's a prehistoric wasp injecting an egg into a fly pupa.
#PaleoArt #Xenomorph #JurassicWorld
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by @deanrlomax.bsky.social & @columbiaup.bsky.social) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's a prehistoric wasp injecting an egg into a fly pupa.
#PaleoArt #Xenomorph #JurassicWorld
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For reasons that aren't yet clear to me, we're going through a major phase of mokele-mbembe interest at the moment. I get asked (by journalists) about it every week at the moment. I see that I'm cited in this 2025 article ... twistedsifter.com/2025/01/do-s... #cryptozoology
Do Sauropods Live In Congo? The Truth Behind Mokele-Mbembe.
Mokele-Mbembe’s story is likely a mix of misinterpretations, dinosaur fever, and colonial biases.
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March 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
For reasons that aren't yet clear to me, we're going through a major phase of mokele-mbembe interest at the moment. I get asked (by journalists) about it every week at the moment. I see that I'm cited in this 2025 article ... twistedsifter.com/2025/01/do-s... #cryptozoology
Recently rewatched and the subsequently came across some discourse around Animal Planet’s “Mermaids: The Body Found”, a mockumentary film aired in 2012
Mermaids gets a bad rep as the "special that tried to fool people into believing in mermaids". I'd like to provide a different perspective (1/19)
Mermaids gets a bad rep as the "special that tried to fool people into believing in mermaids". I'd like to provide a different perspective (1/19)
March 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Recently rewatched and the subsequently came across some discourse around Animal Planet’s “Mermaids: The Body Found”, a mockumentary film aired in 2012
Mermaids gets a bad rep as the "special that tried to fool people into believing in mermaids". I'd like to provide a different perspective (1/19)
Mermaids gets a bad rep as the "special that tried to fool people into believing in mermaids". I'd like to provide a different perspective (1/19)
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Oh, I wrote a Fortean Times piece on this topic and on the book itself. It's Naish, D. 2014. Speculative zoology. Fortean Times 316, 52-53 and a pdf is online at my publications page (you have to search for it) .... darrennaish.wordpress.com/publications/
Publications
THEROPOD DIVERSITY IN THE OLDER PART OF THE WEALDEN SUPERGROUP In the latest of our group’s efforts to document Wealden theropod diversity, we examined a sample of theropod teeth from the Wad…
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March 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Oh, I wrote a Fortean Times piece on this topic and on the book itself. It's Naish, D. 2014. Speculative zoology. Fortean Times 316, 52-53 and a pdf is online at my publications page (you have to search for it) .... darrennaish.wordpress.com/publications/
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I don't know if enough interested people got hold of the Conway, Kösemen @cmkosemen.bsky.social, Naish volume #Cryptozoologicon Volume 1. While it was promoted as an art book that contains a lot of fantastic imagery (like John Conway's Patty #bigfoot here), it also includes... 1/n
March 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I don't know if enough interested people got hold of the Conway, Kösemen @cmkosemen.bsky.social, Naish volume #Cryptozoologicon Volume 1. While it was promoted as an art book that contains a lot of fantastic imagery (like John Conway's Patty #bigfoot here), it also includes... 1/n
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Pop Cryptid Spectator 11
In this edition: Digital hoaxes flooding social media, Questioning the assumptions we make about supernatural cryptids, Cryptid media - The Sasqualogist, Blurry feral Florida cat causes a stir, Loch Ness Quest 3, Royal Mail mythical stamps, Cryptids are "hot", particularly…
In this edition: Digital hoaxes flooding social media, Questioning the assumptions we make about supernatural cryptids, Cryptid media - The Sasqualogist, Blurry feral Florida cat causes a stir, Loch Ness Quest 3, Royal Mail mythical stamps, Cryptids are "hot", particularly…
Pop Cryptid Spectator 11
In this edition: Digital hoaxes flooding social media, Questioning the assumptions we make about supernatural cryptids, Cryptid media - The Sasqualogist, Blurry feral Florida cat causes a stir, Loch Ness Quest 3, Royal Mail mythical stamps, Cryptids are "hot", particularly in WV
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March 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Pop Cryptid Spectator 11
In this edition: Digital hoaxes flooding social media, Questioning the assumptions we make about supernatural cryptids, Cryptid media - The Sasqualogist, Blurry feral Florida cat causes a stir, Loch Ness Quest 3, Royal Mail mythical stamps, Cryptids are "hot", particularly…
In this edition: Digital hoaxes flooding social media, Questioning the assumptions we make about supernatural cryptids, Cryptid media - The Sasqualogist, Blurry feral Florida cat causes a stir, Loch Ness Quest 3, Royal Mail mythical stamps, Cryptids are "hot", particularly…
Drafting, sketching, and working on shenanigans...
Hopefully will have some fun stuff to discuss soon
Hopefully will have some fun stuff to discuss soon
March 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Drafting, sketching, and working on shenanigans...
Hopefully will have some fun stuff to discuss soon
Hopefully will have some fun stuff to discuss soon
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Party tip: When throwing a deep sea tea party, it's generally recommended that you invite the colossal squid.
March 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Party tip: When throwing a deep sea tea party, it's generally recommended that you invite the colossal squid.
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I agree with the need to engage children more with natural history, but dunking on dinosaurs for not being "real" or living animals is amazingly wrong and short sighted (birds, hello?). In the right hands, dinosaurs are gateways to natural history, not monsters.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead | Isabel Losada
Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I agree with the need to engage children more with natural history, but dunking on dinosaurs for not being "real" or living animals is amazingly wrong and short sighted (birds, hello?). In the right hands, dinosaurs are gateways to natural history, not monsters.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Strata and Megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation" by Kesling and Chilman is the definitive book on Silica Shale. The Friends of UMMP supported the publication and reprint in 2012.
There are amazing photos, but the drawings always make me laugh.
There are amazing photos, but the drawings always make me laugh.
March 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Strata and Megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation" by Kesling and Chilman is the definitive book on Silica Shale. The Friends of UMMP supported the publication and reprint in 2012.
There are amazing photos, but the drawings always make me laugh.
There are amazing photos, but the drawings always make me laugh.
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‘Giant’ octopus photos rediscovered – Incertae Sedis
All tentacles point to a hoax.
incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/g...
All tentacles point to a hoax.
incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/g...
‘Giant’ octopus photos rediscovered
The first (left) and second (right) photos of a ‘giant’ Hawaiian octopus reported by Robert T. Aiken, from Anon. (1935a) and Anon. (1935c-f) respectively. Last year I covered the Oklaho…
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March 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
‘Giant’ octopus photos rediscovered – Incertae Sedis
All tentacles point to a hoax.
incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/g...
All tentacles point to a hoax.
incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/g...
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Another illustration for my upcoming book, this time some Osedax bone eating worms and a Munidopsis squat lobster. I was able to dedicate two spreads to whale-fall habitats and this is the second one to show the latter stages 🐡🦑
March 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Another illustration for my upcoming book, this time some Osedax bone eating worms and a Munidopsis squat lobster. I was able to dedicate two spreads to whale-fall habitats and this is the second one to show the latter stages 🐡🦑