Island Hobbits? We’ve Got Their Bones… I am inspired by the recent discovery of bones from very small and apparently intelligent early hominids (Homo floresiensis), mainly because I love to picture them in life, making their tools, enjoying their families, building and hunting and possibly speaking some sort of early language – and it is somehow comforting to imagine another species of intelligent human on planet earth living at the same time as our own species… Hobbits? We’ve got a cave full By Deborah Smith, Science Editor (smh.com.au) Chief Epiradus Dhoi Lewa has a strange tale to tell. Sitting in his bamboo and wooden home at the foot of an…

Creature in Central Park? Cryptozoology is my secret addiction. I wholeheartedly believe in Bigfoot – but I really do not believe he’s hanging out in Central Park. However, one fellow certainly does… Thank you to Ghosttheory for this great find: Ufologist and Cryptozoologist Nick Redfern posted a really far fetched,but interesting story about a Bigfoot-like creature spotted in New York’s Central Park. As silly as this might sound, the witness appeared sincere in his face to face interview with Nick. It’s important to remember that as skeptical as you are, you have to listen and investigate claims in order to weed-out the hoaxes & misidentified sightings. At times it’s like…

Mammoth Issues The concept of reviving long lost species keeps coming up in conversation lately. I suppose it’s true that we are capable of cloning using captured DNA, even really old DNA, and so this is not just a fantasy anymore, but does humanity have the moral maturity to play god in this way? Doesn’t anyone remember the premise for Jurassic Park? I’d say that humans are still smack dab in the middle of their most extreme materialistic age – and that suggests that the reasons for bringing back extinct beasts may be more greed oriented than compassion oriented. Let’s let the reincarnations remain in the hands of the unknown…

A lesson that should be remembered… Logging ’caused Nazca collapse’ (BBC) By Jody Bourton Earth News reporter Created by a sophisticated society that crossed the line? The ancient Nazca people of Peru are famous for the lines they drew in the desert depicting strange animal forms. A further mystery is what happened to this once great civilisation, which suddenly vanished 1,500 years ago. Now a team of archaeologists have found the demise of the Nazca society was linked in part to the fate of a tree. Analysing plant remains they reveal how the destruction of forests containing the huarango tree crossed a tipping point, causing ecological collapse. For the rest…

Archive for November, 2009 Creature in Central Park? Cryptozoology is my secret addiction. I wholeheartedly believe in Bigfoot – but I really do not believe he’s hanging out in Central Park. However, one fellow certainly does… Thank you to Ghosttheory for this great find: Ufologist and Cryptozoologist Nick Redfern posted a really far fetched,but interesting story about a Bigfoot-like creature spotted in New York’s Central Park. As silly as this might sound, the witness appeared sincere in his face to face interview with Nick. It’s important to remember that as skeptical as you are, you have to listen and investigate claims in order to weed-out the hoaxes & misidentified sightings.…