Yet more new discoveries

Researchers Find New Fish 1,000 Feet Below Caribbean

June 5, 2013

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
A pair of Taiwanese researchers say they have discovered a tiny new fish that initially turned up as bycatch, accidentally snared during specimen collection at a depth of around 515 to 547 feet, according to a new report in the open access journal Zookeys.The tiny new species of blenny fish measured less than one inch in length and was discovered off Curaçao in the southern Carribean during the course of the Smithsonian Institution’s Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP). The research team dubbed the new species Haptoclinus dropi after the project’s abbreviation and it is one of several new ray-finned fish species coming out of the project.The DROP team used a manned submersible Curasub to catch specimens. Typically used as tourist attraction because of its large window and ability to travel at much greater depths than human divers can reach, scientists have also begun to embrace the Curasub for marine research.

Read rest here :http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112866097/new-fish-species-found-in-caribbean-060513/

The more new discoveries are made the more I think a cryptid may one day be discovered.

Tiny Chinese Archicebus fossil is oldest primate yet found

By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

A mouse-sized fossil from China has provided remarkable new insights into the origin of primates.At 55 million years old, it represents the earliest known member of this broad group of animals that includes humans. Scientists have called the diminutive creature Archicebus, which roughly translates as "ancient monkey". They tell Nature magazine that its skeleton helps explain the branching that occurred at the very base of the primate evolutionary tree.

Read more here :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22770646

Because this is cool.....

Extinct lizard named after The Doors' singer Jim Morrison

By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News

A newly described 6ft lizard that roamed South East Asia from 36-40 million years ago has been named after The Doors singer Jim Morrison.The choice of name Barbaturex morrisoni is a play on the late frontman's epithet "The Lizard King".Higher temperatures at the time are thought to have helped the lizard evolve to its unusual size.The scientists were surprised to find that the reptile successfully competed for food against mammals.A team of palaeontologists analysed fossils of the giant reptile and discovered it is the largest plant-eating lizard to have ever existed.

Read rest here :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22764946

Living Fossil discovered

Rediscovered Hula painted frog 'is a living fossil'

By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC World Service

A species of frog that was recently rediscovered after being declared extinct has been reclassified as a "living fossil" .Israel's Hula painted frog had not been seen for nearly 60 years, but in 2011 one was found lurking in a patch of swampy undergrowth. Tests have revealed that the frog belongs to a group of amphibians that died out 15,000 years ago.

Read rest see pic here :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22770959

Every time something like this is discovered  it raises hopes for cryptozoology. A cryptid may be the next living fossil discovered.

Another big cat sighting in the UK

Big cat sighted at Uckfield

A bit cat - possibly a black panther - has been sighted in Uckfield.A group of members of staff from Uckfield Community Hospital, were working a night shift when they glanced towards the window as something had caught their eye.

A staff member who does not wish to be named said: “It was ten to nine, so still light and I could see quite clearly. I watched a large, black creature - definitely not a dog - move across the piece of land at the side of the hospital. It had a very long tail, thick and curled at the end. It also had a long body. It moved like a cat - as you know, cats move differently from dogs.”

Read rest here :http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/local/big-cat-sighted-at-uckfield-1-5146325

Yowie in the news

Yowie not to blame for stock losses

 by    Joel Gould

    DON'T blame the Mulgowie Yowie for stock losses. That is the word from cryptozoologist and yowie expert Tim the Yowie Man. The QT was told by one landowner to investigate the legend of the Mulgowie Yowie after he lost several sheep in a recent attack.

Read rest here :http://www.qt.com.au/news/yowie-not-to-blame-for-stock-losses/1890819/

See also : http://www.qt.com.au/news/legend-of-elusive-yowie-living-on-in-mulgowie/1890848/

Are we related to bigfoot? And how the turtle got a shell.

Ape-like feet 'found in study of museum visitors'

By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News

Scientists have discovered that about one in thirteen people have flexible ape-like feet.A team studied the feet of 398 visitors to the Boston Museum of Science. The results show differences in foot bone structure similar to those seen in fossils of a member of the human lineage from two million years ago.

Read rest here :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22728014

We may be more related to Big foot than we realise.

How the turtle got its unique hard shell

By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News

How the turtle shell evolved has puzzled scientists for years, but new research sheds light on how their hard shells were formed. Scientists say the ancient fossil skeleton of an extinct South African reptile has helped bridge a 30 to 55-million-year gap. This ancestor of the modern turtle, Eunotosaurus, is thought to be around 260 million years old. It had significant differences to a recently found fossil relative.Eunotosaurus was discovered over a century ago but new research in the journal Current Biology has only now analysed its differences to other turtle fossils.

Read rest here :http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22715018