Loren Coleman
@CryptoLoren
Cryptozoologist, museum founder/director, author, tv celeb, social scientist, ex-professor, filmmaker, father & husband http://cryptozoologymuseum.com
Barsbold named a dinosaur after his father, the oviraptorid Rinchenia mongoliensis. There is also a dinosaur named after the almas, the troodontid Almas ukhaa.
There’s an odd connection that most people don’t know about - folklorist Byambyn Rinchen pictured here is the father of vertebrate paleontologist Rinchen Barsbold.
Among still* living hominologists from the 1970s, there remain two of the four Russian Snowman researchers: Sitting (left to right) Eveline Zeligman, Jeanne Koffmann*. Standing: Igor Burtsev*, Dmitri Bayanov, shown with sitting Academician Rinchen visiting Moscow. @CryptoLoren
Krantz began his sasquatch research long before 1983. He published his first paper on the subject in 1971 and had been interested in it since 1953. …lreferencelibrary.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/krantz… …lreferencelibrary.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/regal-…
I checked "Walker's Bats of the World", which appears to be the Nowak (1994) that Downard referenced, and it contains no mention of flightless bats. archive.org/details/walker…
The Doubt article is available online. This is a different story than the bucket of scales reported in 1953 though. files.afu.se/Downloads/Maga…
I would recommend Pierre Denys de Montfort's 1802 "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Mollusques" (vol. 2), which is responsible for the modern conception of the kraken as a giant cephalopod. biodiversitylibrary.org/item/110561#pa…
Great artwork from Frank Welles Calkins' 1899 short story "A Lion in New Mexico", where an Asiatic lion escapes from a train wreck and attacks Old West cowboys. This could be considered cryptofiction since it features an out-of-place big cat.
In 1897, newspapers reported that a human carving was found deep in a coal mine in Iowa. Although a favorite story of pseudoarchaeologists, this 'artifact' turned out to be a fossilized tree! Get the full story in my new blog post (link below).
In 2000, a photo supposedly of a 'giant' Hawaiian octopus from 1936 was found. I rediscovered a higher-quality scan of this photo (actually from 1935) and a second photo from a different angle (link below).
1. It is not the largest shark ever filmed, but it is the largest Pacific sleeper shark. The estimated length is approximately 7 meters. 2. It was actually filmed by an American cameraman, Ralph White, on the submersible Nautile. This occurred at the bottom of Suruga Bay, Japan.
Japanese Marine Biologist Captures The Largest Shark Ever Recorded...
Looks like this account has a history with megalodon nonsense. This is of course an edited photo from the infamous Discovery Channel mockumentary. x.com/maniaUFO/statu…
Evidence of a 50-ton Megalodon in that old Nazi photo. The photo suggest that a monster shark weighing up to 50 tons may still be roaming the ocean. Is this photo real? #ufomania #SharkWeek #PHOTOS #TrendingNow
Along with Delgado, Gurney, Rey, Stout, and others, Sovak defined what the dinosaurs of my childhood (late 90's-early 00's) looked like. His work played a major part in getting me interested in paleontology from a young age. He will be missed.
It seems that his obituary has only been published in his native Czech so far. idnes.cz/ceske-budejovi…
I'm saddened to hear that Jan Sovak, one of my favorite paleoartists, passed away on Monday. He leaves behind an incredible body of work.
Jan Sovak's paleoart evokes a certain feeling that is hard to describe. I really wish more people were aware of his work.