What Do You Want In The Museum Shop?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 24th, 2009
A generous donation is acknowledged, and it is time to leave your feedback on what you’d like to sell to or see in the future museum shop. Images.
Archive for the “Thylacine”
Thylacine In Tantanoola Tiger Terra?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 4th, 2009
An alleged thylacine was seen in South Australia on Monday, June 1, 2009. This occurred in the midst of an area known for the historical case of the Tantanoola Tiger. Images of the taxidermy mystery mount.
Ropen, Monkey Men & More: A MonsterQuest Month
Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 3rd, 2009
June holds forth some very strange television viewing.
MonsterQuest Marathon
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 25th, 2009
Updated…the Marathon continues on Monday…
Over Memorial Day weekend, 2009, History is running a two-day festival of this year’s episodes.
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Tasmanian Tiger Expedition Broadcast
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 13th, 2009
A number of positive outcomes have been achieved already. Images.
New At The Museum
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 6th, 2008
All the donations to the museum are not fiscal. Here is a sampling of some recent acquisitions contributed to the International Cryptozoology Museum.
Jeff H. Johnson-painted new Thylacine model.
The Teslin, Yukon, “Sasquatch” hair samples from Dr. David Coltman, University of Alberta. Coltman published the scientific paper discussing how the sample turned out to be [...]
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Lost Weekend Rescued
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 3rd, 2008
Yep, perhaps it was the Montauk Monster, but something caused Cryptomundo to go down early in the pre-dawn A.M. on Saturday, August 2, 2008. It just was returned online.
Cryptomundo is back and we don’t know why we were gone. What did you do with this time?
I hope you all used it productively…perhaps shopping [...]
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Queensland: Tasmanian Devil Sighted
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 8th, 2008
A mainland Tasmanian devil sighting has been reported from Blackbraes National Park, 320 kilometres south-west of Cairns, Queensland, according to Mainland Devils’ Chris Rehberg.
Neil Van contacted Mainland Devils to report an unusual black animal which he and a friend sighted at 9.30pm on Wednesday, the 2nd of July 2008. They were travelling along the Kennedy [...]
World-Famous Thylacine Researcher Dies
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 7th, 2008
Eric Guiler. Courtesy of Chris Rehberg.
Tasmania’s and probably the world’s leading authority on Thylacines, Eric Guiler, has died.
Dr. Eric Guiler, 85, died on Thursday, July 3, 2008, after six years of ill-health following a stroke. His friends are amazed he survived for this length of time, as the word from Australia and Tasmania immediately [...]
In Search of Thylacine Replicas
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 2nd, 2008
Matthew Bille, author of Shadows of Existence and other books, approached me with a question over the weekend, which I have seriously pondered often: Where are the Thylacine replicas?
Does no one produce affordable, hard-plastic, scale-model, museum-quality representations of the Thylacine (a.k.a. Tasmanian Tiger)? Does not Thylacinus cynocephalus, the wolf-headed pouched dog, one of the [...]
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Monster Quest II
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 27th, 2008
It is Tuesday, May 27, 2008, and the History Channel, on behalf of “Monster Quest II,” is here in Portland, Maine, with a film producer and crew today to digitally film interviews with me about cryptozoology, in the context of a five hour tour of the International Cryptozoology Museum.
Their snippets of the interviews, b-roll, and [...]
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Loren: On the Road Again
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 2nd, 2008
March does not bring Spring easily and without a fight to the state of Maine. It calls forth my wanderlust, as talks pop up and investigative traveling for me to the South is on the horizon. Trips call me away from the 100-plus-inches worth of snow in Portland, and out of the cobwebs [...]
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Search for Thylacines: “A Triumph of Hope…”
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 14th, 2008
The Science Show has published a transcript of their recently broadcast program on “Tasmanian Tigers.”
The program description details what is covered:
“Catherine Medlock describes the Tasmanian Museum’s collection of young Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tigers. The museum has five of the nine specimens in existence. They were extinct on the mainland 5,000 years ago and were only [...]
More Moa News
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 9th, 2008
As a followup to the recent story about Rex Gilroy’s proposed expedition to look for living Moas in the Urewera forest, Tony Lucas shares the latest.
Hawke’s Bay cryptozoology researcher Tony Lucas is keeping an open mind on the possibility of moa still being alive in the Ureweras but thinks the evidence could point to emus.
Mr [...]
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Living Moa News
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 6th, 2008
The little blue moa.
The Thylacine of the Avian world is in the news again.
Australian cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy recently discussed the latest new findings for Moas with the Hawke’s Bay Today. One of the good points about Gilroy is that he does serve as a lightning rod for unusual animal accounts in the region sometimes, [...]
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