Comments on: Darwin’s Other Cryptid http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/darwins-nz/ for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:31:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: drjon http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/darwins-nz/comment-page-1/#comment-51614 drjon Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:53:00 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=11325#comment-51614 I just stumbled upon this most excellent article from 1988: <i><a href="http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Bio30Tuat01-t1-body-d8.html" rel="nofollow">The Waitoreki of New Zealand - Marsupial or Monotreme? </a></i> I just stumbled upon this most excellent article from 1988: The Waitoreki of New Zealand – Marsupial or Monotreme?

]]> By: drjon http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/darwins-nz/comment-page-1/#comment-51559 drjon Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:38:05 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=11325#comment-51559 In <i>Bunyips and Bigfoots</i> (1996) Smith makes the very good point that the Maori words for this beastie have a root meaning "bone spur". I think the suggestion that it was (or is) a monotreme quite a good one. In Bunyips and Bigfoots (1996) Smith makes the very good point that the Maori words for this beastie have a root meaning “bone spur”.

I think the suggestion that it was (or is) a monotreme quite a good one.

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