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Scientists have long denied the possibility of the Loch Ness Monster existing. But research from @UniofBath has some new and exciting findings that may change the way we see this. A thread 🧵
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🐊 The most likely candidate for a 'Nessie' would be a Plesiosaur.
🦕 🚫Plesiosaurs are NOT dinosaurs but a group of marine reptiles. Reptiles that lived in the sea
🌊 While most lived in the sea, some were found in low salt water
🏴 The lochs in Scotland are freshwater
🦕 🚫Plesiosaurs are NOT dinosaurs but a group of marine reptiles. Reptiles that lived in the sea
🌊 While most lived in the sea, some were found in low salt water
🏴 The lochs in Scotland are freshwater
💀 Plesiosaurs went extinct about 100 million years ago
🌏While they were alive, they could be found on every continent & they lived in diverse habitats
🤏One group of Plesiosaurs were the Leptocleididae, with small heads and short necks
🌏While they were alive, they could be found on every continent & they lived in diverse habitats
🤏One group of Plesiosaurs were the Leptocleididae, with small heads and short necks
At long last, it’s time for another #TetZoocryptomegathread, wherein I look in detail at a piece of photographic evidence said to show a MONSTER. This time, we’re looking again at a #LochNessMonster photo, specifically the HUGH GRAY PHOTO of 1933.... #LochNess #cryptozoology
This photo - famously hard to interpret - is the very first photo claimed to show the Loch Ness Monster! And I’ll mostly be calling it the Gray Nessie photo. To business…
As per usual, please remember that this isn’t called a megathread for nothin. It’s loooooong. Secondly, I am an ‘honest sceptic’. I am not biased, and I aim to report authentically what authors and reporters have said, on both sides of the proverbial fence... #cryptozoology
Time for a #TetZoocryptomegathread! This time we look at one of the most famous sea monster accounts: the WWI incident in which the crew of the U-boat U-28 witnessed a gigantic, crocodile-shaped monster get blasted out of the water by an explosion. Yes, you read that right…
The U-28 incident is generally considered one of the most amazing and exciting claimed sea monster observations, combining the drama and historical realism of marine warfare with a remarkable creature account that defies belief… #cryptozoology #monsters
As usual with these megathreads, please remember that I discuss both the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ of these sorts of stories. If you read something that seems wrong, silly or illogical, remember that I’ll very likely be coming back to it later on in the thread. Ok…
It's #TetZoocryptomegathread time, in which I take a VERY long, detailed look at a monster-themed photo, or photos, or bit of film. This time, we look AGAIN at photos alleged to show a monster carcass: the 1937 Naden Harbour #Cadborosaurus sea monster carcass… #cryptozoology
As usual, my aim here is to cover the story in all its twists and turns, and to look at the evidence critically and sceptically but to ALSO look at the case as it was interpreted by those who accepted it as a valid bit of monster evidence… #monsters #seamonsters
Some minor backstory before we get to the photos themselves. European colonists of coastal British Columbia, Canada and Washington, USA claimed – from the 1880s onwards – to witness a large sea monster in the region’s coastal waters…
Time for another #TetZoocryptomegathread, in which we examine the backstory to a photo or film said to depict a cryptid, or monster. This time, we’re not looking at a photo claimed to be of a live animal BUT at photos which depict a very dead one: a rotted carcass, in fact…
I am of course talking about the ZUIYO-MARU CARCASS: the large, decomposed body of a sea creature, ‘captured’ by accident in the nets of the Japanese fishing vessel the Zuiyo-maru on April 25th 1977 while they were about 48km off the east coast of Christchurch, New Zealand…
The name ‘Zuiyo-maru’ has been written in several ways in the literature (as ‘Zuiyomaru’ or ‘Zuiyo Maru’, for example). I’m here going to follow the style used in the 1978 report on the carcass (Zuiyo-maru). And the Zuiyo-maru carcass will be called the ZMC from hereon!
Time for another #TetZoocryptomegathread, again a #LochNessMonster one, again on one of my favourite #Nessie photos: the Peter O’Connor photo of May 27th, 1960. Follow this thread as we take a VERY DETAILED look at the story behind this case…
The O’Connor photo – a single black and white image – is one of the ‘best’ #Nessie images, by which I mean that it shows an object which looks something like an animal, and shows it at close range and at reasonable detail. #cryptozoology #monsters
The photo was taken in darkness, from close to shore, and (supposedly...) as the camera was held less than 1 metre above the water surface. The flash illuminates the scene, and is bouncing off wavelets as well as what looks like the body of a large animal…
A fish has died in #Zambia.
Not just any fish, but a special fish.
A very special fish!
A fish called #Mafishi (meaning "Big Fish" in the local Bemba language)
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Not just any fish, but a special fish.
A very special fish!
A fish called #Mafishi (meaning "Big Fish" in the local Bemba language)
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#Mafishi was a good luck fish.
It lived in a pond at #Zambia's second-biggest university, Copperbelt University (CBU).
For the past two decades CBU students have believed the fish would bring them good luck in exams.
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It lived in a pond at #Zambia's second-biggest university, Copperbelt University (CBU).
For the past two decades CBU students have believed the fish would bring them good luck in exams.
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#Zambia's President Edgar Lungu @EdgarCLungu
has joined the nation in mourning the death of #Mafishi.
The news got international media coverage.
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has joined the nation in mourning the death of #Mafishi.
The news got international media coverage.
bbc.com/news/world-afr…
[a thread 3/n]
Time to embark on another of my #cryptozoology PHOTO MEGA-THREADS (from hereon, #TetZoocryptomegathread). Today: Rilla Martin’s 1964 Ozenkadnook tiger photo, aka the ‘Rilla critter’ photo, from western Victoria, Australia. It's one of my favourite mystery animal photos. Ok...
The photo – a single black and white image – shows a vaguely dog-shaped, long-tailed mammal in the scrub, assumed to be a predatory marsupial of some sort, but one which doesn’t match anything known to science.
The story is that Martin was holidaying with her cousin Bushy (yeah, ‘Bushy’) at Goroke on the Victoria/South Australia border (map from Google maps)...
It’s time for another of my monster-themed mega-threads, wherein we examine the backstory to photos (or other bits of evidence) said to be evidence for a given #monster. This time, we’re going to look at the so-called #LochNessMonster FLIPPER PHOTOS of 1972. Here we go…
During the late 1960s/early 70s it was believed by a large group of people – affiliated as the Loch Ness Phenomenon Investigation Bureau or LNIB (it went by other names over the years) – that camera-led vigils at #LochNess would lead to definitive proof of Nessie’s existence...
During the early 70s, the LNIB joined forces with another group: the US-based Academy of Applied Science (AAS), led by inventor and lawyer Robert Rines (whose name is very often wrongly written ‘Rhines’). Rines died in 2009. In the photo here, Rines is on the far left…
Hello! It’s time to look at the very complex backstory to ANOTHER famous #monster photo (ask me if you need links to my monster threads). This time we’re looking at the Sandra Mansi #LakeChamplain photo of July 1977, the world’s ‘best’ lake monster photo. MEGA-THREAD follows….
The Mansi photo – as it’s known – is a single colour photo taken at around noon on July 5th, 1977 at Lake Champlain, a giant lake 172km long, 23km wide at its widest, mostly located within the US states of Vermont and New York but with a section in Québec too… #cryptozoology
The Mansi photo has been described as the very best photo of a lake monster ever, has been taken seriously – as a real photo of a giant, unknown animal species – by many scientists, but has also been decried a hoax, and investigated as a misidentification.
If you liked my threads on sea monster and #LochNessMonster photos, you might enjoy this one, which focuses on something very different: the famous 1967 #Bigfoot film, variously dubbed the Patterson Film, Patterson-Gimlin Film, or Bluff Creek Film…
I’m going to be calling it the PGF (for Patterson-Gimlin Film). Some people say that it’s the most analysed piece of film footage after the 1963 Zapruder Film, showing JFK’s assassination...
The PGF is about 1 minute long and was filmed by the late Roger Patterson on 20th October 1967 (though hold that thought). Patterson was accompanied by his friend Bob Gimlin (here on the left).
Welcome to another of my #LochNessMonster threads. This time we’re looking at the MOST FAMOUS #NESSIE PHOTO OF THEM ALL. Namely, the so-called Surgeon’s Photo, or Wilson Photo, of April 1934. Follow the thread – there’s a lot to say! [attached, another of my childhood drawings].
The ‘Wilson Photo’ (the name I’ll use throughout) shows a dark head and head, seemingly silhouetted against the grey surface of the loch. There are ripples and waves and concentric ripples around the monster....
There are other disturbances on the water too – here’s a diagram produced by Tim Dinsdale in 1961… #LochNessMonster #nessie
Here’s a thread on another famous/infamous bit of modern #monster lore… the so-called Muppet #LochNessMonster photo, taken on 21st May 1977 by Mr Tony Shiels. As usual, it has a really fun backstory, follow me as we explore it in this thread…
It’s a remarkable colour photo, surely one of the best ever taken of #Nessie! As a kid, it was one of my favourite Nessie images, and here’s my own drawing of it. I should add that part of this is explored in my 2017 book Hunting Monsters. Anyway… #cryptozoology #LochNessMonster
Mr Shiels said that he was standing at the foot of Urquhart Castle when he noticed the LOCH NESS MONSTER and managed to snap two photos (yes, two. Read on)...
This #LochNessMonster image is doing the rounds on social media. It's a fabulous painting from legendary Italian artist Gino D'Achille and (among other works) appeared in Daniel Farson's 1975 book Vampires, Zombies & Monster Men. It has an interesting backstory (thread) ...
The image depicts the Spicer sighting of August 1933, the first land sighting of the #LochNessMonster. Mr F. T.G. Spicer worked extremely hard to promote his sighting and evidently enjoyed the publicity...
The Spicer monster (redrawn many times in different books) was a grotesque blob with an undulating section at its front, described as undulating "like a scenic railway". A lump at its middle was said to be the head of a "lamb or small deer", but this idea was discarded over time.
The 'Dr Darren Naish is an idiot because he's only just decided that monsters (like the #LochNessMonster) aren't real' story continues to have legs in the global press today. Here's a thread...
(1) I've most certainly not spent the last 20 years searching for monsters. I think I told a journalist that I've been publishing on monsters for about 20 years (my 1st articles on the subject date to 1996, so 23 years); they must have taken the figure from this...
(2) I've never been a dedicated monster hunter. Rather, the cryptozoological stuff is something I do on the side and certainly not the way I make a living, which is what is implied in some of these articles. I'm mostly known for my palaeozoological writings...
At the 2014 #TetZooCon - that's the first one ever - I spoke about Speculative Zoology, or Speculative Evolution, or whatever. And here I'm going to tweet some of what I said... The cover slide shows awesome #Squamozoic art by @alaskanime plus a Night stalker and a .. a.. well..
Evolution is real and animals have a past; therefore they also have a future, something we can take seriously. And many authors have... #TetZooCon
There's already a whole genre of 'alternative history' fiction, variously called AH, allohistory or Uchronia. Ideas about alternative or parallel timelines. And the idea is in mainstream fiction... #TetZooCon
