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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Matamatá, the Jurassic turtle from Brazilian Amazon

PHOTO. Edson Souza

BRAZIL. ACRE state. On Monday, May 11 (2015), the graphic designer Edson Souza, 34 - on a farm near the town of Xapuri, 188 km far from the state capital, Rio Branco, was fishing with net in a local pond - when captured a strange turtle . The animal has a Jurassic aspect. It is a saury-turtle.

The biologist Moisés Barbosa identified the turtle. It is known as "Matamatá" and - despite the exotic appearance, it is a cataloged animal. Its scientific name is Chelus fribriatus, a typical reptile from Amazon region.

Live in areas of flooded forest and dams, especially at environment where water is dark, standing water, places where there the forest is preserved. It feeds, mainly - eating fishes.

The Matamatá has a carapace full of irregular ripples of rough appearance. Barbosa explained these strange features of Chelus fimbriatus: It is a prehistoric animal that inhabits the planet since between 250 and 300 million years.

It is one of the oldest specimens, which has not modified itself much over the ages. It has a large and wide neck. full of flexible fins.

In water, these fins have an undulating movement what makes them seem algae. This acts as a camouflage allowing fish approach, potential preys for this ancient monster.

SOURCE
'Parece um dinossauro', diz jovem que pescou tartaruga exótica no AC
OLHAR DIRETO/BR, 14.May.2015
[http://www.olhardireto.com.br/noticias/exibir.asp?noticia=Parece_um_dinossauro_diz_jovem_que_pescou_tartaruga_exotica_no_AC&edt=22&id=396854]

Friday, February 28, 2014

The mysterious creature from the Sakhalinthe island

RÚSSIA. AUG 13, 2013. In the south of Sakhalinthe island - Korsakov district, the carcass of an unknown animal was found, thrown, on the Nenaezzhennaya road, along the beach.

The first person that saw the corpse was a local resident, Zoya Denisova (or Zoe) - who made the photos and posted them in a social net.

The island residents stand curious and began speculate about what's that thing , never seen before. Scientists are trying to indentify the creature what means they also don't recognized the specie.

Zoe Denisov told: she was driving, returning from vacation and decided to go by the road of seaside. When she saw the beast, it was already semi-decomposed.

Carcasses of killer whales , seals, often appear at shores of Sakhalin. It is not uncommon - the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk is very rich in the most diverse species of wildlife. But this animal is a surprise. Even the experts were stumped with its appearance.

Without doubt, it is a weird being, covered with hair, with its seven meters of lenght, bones sticking out of his head, tusks and a long tail not present in any marine animal.

IN PORTUGUESE
28/02/2014
MONSTROS. RUSSIA. A Misteriosa Criatura da Ilha de Sakhalinthe
[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/monstros-misteriosa-criatura-da-ilha-de.html]

SOURCE: На берег Сахалина выбросило неопознанное животное

PARANORMAL NEWS/RUSSIA, Aug 13, 2013
[http://paranormal-news.ru/news/na_bereg_sakhalina_vybrosilo_neopoznannoe_zhivotnoe/2013-08-13-7480]

Sunday, February 23, 2014

👽 REPTILIAN HUMANOID STARTLES BIKERS AT SONORA DESERT, ARIZONA

DESCRIPTION OF THE CREATURE ACCORDING TO WITNESSES. IMAGE: PRODUCED BY #BINGAI: Very tall, very thin, scaly face, long red scales on head, long arms, claws on the hands, large black eyes with a yellow stripe in the middle, very red mouth

Reptilian humanoid startles bikers in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona -- High Strangeness -- Sott.net:

[http://www.sott.net/article/274013-Reptilian-humanoid-startles-bikers-in-the-Sonoran-Desert-Arizona]

TUCSON, Arizina. A group of three mountain bikers reportedly saw a reptilian humanoid last week in the middle of a trail located in the Sonoran desert.

The bicyclists were riding the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo race course, a 17 mile trail, when they spotted the creature.

MORE

[http://www.sott.net/article/274013-Reptilian-humanoid-startles-bikers-in-the-Sonoran-Desert-Arizona]

Saturday, February 15, 2014

The mysterious monster from the depths of the Arctic

UPDATE
February 27, 2014
Wasn't a giant monster in the Arctic.
It was only a colony of giant worms ...at Arctic [http://brazilweirdnews.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/wasnt-giant-monster-in-arctic-it-was.html]

Image merely illustrative. Яндекс.Директ

this news in portuguese
domingo, 16 de fevereiro de 2014
O Misterioso Monstro das Profundezas do Ártico
[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/o-misterioso-monstro-das-profundezas-do.html]

ARTICO. Researchers from Vladivostok Institute of Marine Technology Problems, Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences found, during a study of the oceanic shelf, in the deep waters of the Arctic - an unknown creature with enormous proportions.

One of the scientists, Ph.D. Leonid Naumov - that was accompanying the monitorization submarine probe (underwater robot - "Клавесин" ("Harpsichord" or Cravo like clavecin, reference to musical instrument or a Spike, "clou" - most probably due the shape of the device - below) - tells that the robot worked at a depth of 1600 to 2000 meters. Scientists have succeeded, using a special technique, see a very large creature, that was presumably, on the entrance to its burrow.

The real Harpsichord" or Cravo like clavecin, reference to musical instrument or a Spike, "clou" - most probably, due the shape of the device.
IN [http://wiki.ru/sites/anomalnye_yavleniya_neobyasnimye_fenomeny_nlo/id-news-485408.html]

The monster attacked the machine and began to shake it from side to side. When the researchers were able to rescue the "Harpsichord/Spike" from the ocean floor, on the metal casing, were found numerous dents and scratches .

The scientists researched the universe of the oceanic biology but, among images of numerous creatures, they were unable to identify the 'monster and said that never before, none of them they had saw a similar kind.

The photos have not was disclosed, yet - but witnesses described the animal as being endowed with enormous head well as his mouth. Had bright eyes and - clearly - was a living being.

UPDATE
February 27, 2014
Wasn't a giant monster in the Arctic.
It was only a colony of giant worms ...at Arctic
[http://brazilweirdnews.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/wasnt-giant-monster-in-arctic-it-was.html]

this news in portuguese
domingo, 16 de fevereiro de 2014
O Misterioso Monstro das Profundezas do Ártico
[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2014/02/o-misterioso-monstro-das-profundezas-do.html]

SOURCSE
На дне Арктики обнаружен монстр

RGRU/RÚSSIA, 15/02/2014
[http://www.rg.ru/2014/02/15/monsrt-site.html]
Новый подводный аппарат наблюдал неизвестных науке животных. Аномальные явления, необъяснимые феномены, НЛО.
WIKI.RU, 11/02/2014
[http://wiki.ru/sites/anomalnye_yavleniya_neobyasnimye_fenomeny_nlo/id-news-485408.html]

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Oceanic monster appears in shore of Spain - again

THEY, ALREADY, ARE TWO IN TWO MONTHS

Gargoyles at Chile e Puerto Rico - New sightings and photos

[http://brazilweirdnews.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/puerto-rico-goatsuckers-gargoyles.html]

BELOW: Aqui, com +100% contrast and +17% bright, defining a few more, the silhouette of the figure. The photo was a register of the recent episode and the fact ocurred at Chile - reported in this text.

CHILE. On September 29 at 21:00 pm - Near the Parque Santiago Bustamante, a strange creature was spotted flying from tree to tree. As explained by the witnesses, the creature had a size about 2 feet high. For its shape, the critter seemed to be like a flying stingray.

Ignacio, a young man who was a privileged witness of the sighting, reported that the mysterious entity had wings. The wings were large, enormous.

Another witness reported: My wife and I saw this creature in one of the towers of the Church of San Francisco in Santa Isabel. It was eating something, I think it was a dog. But if someone examine the church tower maybe remains of the prey - still could be found.

Known ufologist, the puerto-rican Reinaldo Rios has offered to Chile his expertise and assistance to aid in the capture of the 'gargoyle and added that what is ocurring at Chile and the creature sighted is, in all, similar to sightings registered at Puerto Rico in this same epoch in past years.

All caracteristics are similar, from his height of over 6 feet (more that 1,83 m), huge wings, like a giant bird but, most looking like something between animal and human.

The Gargoyles sightings are reported by Reinaldo Rios and by the Guanica police, of Puerto Rico, since 2010.

Rios commented: Many believe that the Gargoyles are like the famous Mothman, as a relative. But the Mothman sightings occur - and have occured - in cold countries. The Gargoyles could be a mutation or evolution of the specie, concludes Reinaldo Rios.

[http://brazilweirdnews.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/puerto-rico-goatsuckers-gargoyles.html]

SOURCE:

LORENZO ARAÑA, Benjamin. Reportan avistamientos de Gargolas en Chile y Puerto Rico.

DIARIO DIGITAL/RADIO REGION fm 98.9/GARN CANARIA, Oct/09/2013

[http://regioncanarias-diariodigital.blogspot.com.br/2013/10/reportan-avistamientos-de-gargolas-en.html]

Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Sea Dragon of Andalusia

IMAGEM: HUFFINGTON POST/ESPAÑA,

[http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2013/08/16/extrano-animal-costa-almeria_n_3768834.html]

SPAIN. THURSDAY, Aug. 15 (2013), the lifeless body of a unidentified marine being, appeared on the sands of Playa Luis Siret - coastal, pueblo of Villaricos, Cuevas del Almanzora, Spanish municipality in the province of Almeria - in Andalucía.

The animal, of fantastic appearance resembling a sea dragon, measuring about four meters long, had advanced signs of decomposition.

A bather, a woman - when faced with the strange creature, reported it by telephone - to the emergency service of Cuevas del Almanzora - which attends by the number 122.

Authorities were mobilized: the Civil Defense PROMAR contacted the Association for the Defense of Nature Navy (Marina Defensa de la Naturaleza) whose representatives, quickly, realized that the animal was... merely ... a whale ... (?!)

Meanwhile, members of the Asociación de la Defense en Fauna Marina Almería, according to its coordinator, Francisco Toledano, went to the place analyze the corpse and compare the creature with the pictures obtained. Toledano said:

We had access to the images of body on sands, probably thrown there by strong waves. The pictures are being sent to experts in an attempt to identify the specimen. At first glance it seems a kind of fish but the state of decomposition makes recognition.

Because of the health risks resulting from exposure of putrefying matter, the Civil Defense decided to bury the carcass.

THIS NEWS IN PORTUGUESE

O Dragão do Mar da Andalucía, 17/08/2013

[http://sofadasala-noticias.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/o-dragao-do-mar-da-andalucia.html]

SOURCE

Analizan restos de un ‘extraño pez’ hallado en una playa de Almería.

M24DIGITAL/ARGENTINA, 17/08/2013

[http://m24digital.com/2013/08/17/analizan-restos-de-un-extrano-pez-hallado-en-una-playa-de-almeria-imagen/]

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Monstrous creatures live in African forests

AFRICA. A great mystery is haunting tropical forests of Africa. Local hunters reported seeing a group of animals - that are being called monsters - devouring elephants and crocodiles.

These animals, that already have been seen by more than ten hunters are appearing more frequently since the month of December 2011, and were identified like the mythical creature known like Mokele-mbebe (which means "one who stops the flow of rivers" in the Lingala language).

According to the testimonies of those who have seen the creature, he looks a lot like a dinosaur - having a long body, tall, with about 11 meters high, a single horn and grayish brown color. Everything indicates that the these great animals live in the forests, in caves near Congo river.

At those place some archaeologists and biologists spotted a large number of mammoth bones and remains of animals such as elephants and crocodiles.But until now, no hunter or specialist managed to shoot the animal, but only the footprints he left near the caves. Each footprint has around 90 cm of diameter.

Roy Mackal, retired biologist from the University of Chicago there are many years, has dedicated his time to hunt these mysterious creatures in the forests of Congo.

He has seek the monsters since 1980 but never managed to sighting them, like occur with the natives. It's like a hunt for the Loch Ness monster. It gives a feeling that we are still living in the Prehistoric Era, he says.

Mackal said that, all those who have seen the Mokele-Mbebe, they stood shocked. We were navigating the river when we saw Mokele-mbebe. He started chasing us and left the river, Like a woman, a native that said to the scientist: We came out running or the creature could kill us.

Some experts say that many africans confuse the appearances of the animal with legend and spiritual myths, but the creature seems to even be real, since their footprints have been found.

To Mackal, who spends his days searching for new species in Africa, the existence of the Mokele-mbebe is a true. I do believe that this animal still exists and lives in the forests of Africa. Currently, he said, there are more than 50 expeditions all over the region in search of evidences of the existence of this animal or, even, em search of an encounter with it . I would be very proud of discovering the Mokele-mbebe to 86 years old, I live for this.

SOURCE: Caçadores africanos vêem monstro na floresta.

Globo Rural, published IN 28/04/2012.

[http://revistagloborural.globo.com/Revista/Common/0,,EMI303937-18071,00-CACADORES+AFRICANOS+VEEM+MONSTRO+NA+FLORESTA.html]

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

🐟 🌊 STRANGE WATER WORLD

MEXICO – In El Desemboque, a little port town of the Mexican state of Sonora, northwestern of the country, fishermen caught a strange animal. Apparently it is a fish, however, seems to be a creature extremely antiga.

The strange fish is monstrous and has a pre-historic appearance. The news says the animal measures 3 meters of lenght but, judging by the photo there is exaggeration in this dimension (or the fisherman holding the animal is endowed with low height). Your weight (of the fish): 70 kilograms.

The fishermen published the photo of the creature on newspapers in the hope of someone, a biologist - perhaps can clarify: what animal is this?

SOURCE

Atrapan pescadores a una ‘rara criatura’.

IN Expresso/Mexico, published in 05/10/2011

[http://www.expreso.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16454:atrapan-pescadores-a-una-rara-criatura&catid=17:vistazo&Itemid=71]

Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Giant Scorpions

Paleontology – Analyses performed on the fossil of a giant scorpion 417 million years old, a species extinct (thank goodness!) revealed traces of a substance called chitin in the exoskeleton of the creature. This finding demonstrates something that until now was considered impossible: The age of the chitin found, is several hundred million years older than what was considered the maximum possible in terms of conservation of this material.

The discovery was made by a team of scientists led by George Cody of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Analyses were conducted at the ALS (Advanced Light Source) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California

The work of these experts contradicts the classical idea that the organic material can not be mantained for so long because it would be decomposed by microorganisms. However, scientists have found a fibrous mesh of chitin in the fóssil. Chitin is a polysaccharide rich in nitrogen.

Some species of these huge animals had reached over two meters in length. Chitin was also found in younger fossils, like a scorpion 310 million of years and even others, with 25 million years. The size of the giants scorpions is a frightening demonstration that in the past, arachnids, insects, crustaceans and other creatures were much larger than today. It is known that Eurypterids are aquatic ancestors (and extinct) of land scorpions and possibly of all arachnids of today.

SORCE: Detectan vestigios de quitina en el fósil de un aterrador escorpión gigante.
IN NCYT, published in 04/11/2011
[http://noticiasdelaciencia.com/not/862/detectan_vestigios_de_quitina_en_el_fosil_de_un_aterrador_escorpion_gigante/]

Saturday, April 23, 2011

The past encaged on a crystalline stone

PERU – In Chiclayo (a town located at northwest of Peru, capital of Lambayeque region, one of the 25 political divisions of the country) scientists found several examples of small insects preserved in amber stones. Researchers believe that these tiny specimens lived around 20 millions of years ago. Were – therefore, contemporary of the dinosaurs and, they passed, at least, for a glaciation.

In the stones of amber insects like Psocoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera and spiders, as well as spores, pollen fossils, and even a drop of blood and hair of rodents, all of these fragments of the past remained preserved.

The discovery was made on a beach in far north of Peru by paleontologists from the Paleontological Museum Meyer-Honningen. The team found more than a hundred stones, among the river sediments, but still could not identify the majority. Some of the insects are nor even known, like the , long-legged mosquito Zancudo or a wasp, that has the stinger in the front of its body. These are possibly species already extinct that indicate changes in the flora and fauna of the area.

However, the Peruvian museum has invited Austrian scientists to assist in the study of fossils and new expedition will be made in the Santiago River, for try to uncover new clues about the evolution of the Amazon.

SOURCE: Âmbar alberga fósseis de insectos extintos.
IN Ciência Hoje/Pt, published in 04/21/2011
[http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=48649&op=all]

Thursday, March 31, 2011

More fossils of prehistoric crocodiles found at Brazil

Cranium of "Decuriasuchus" found at hinterland of Rio Grande do Sul state, south of Brazil. The predator, who lived in the Triassic period, is older than dinosaurs known.

Rio Grande do Sul (state) – In the city of 'Dona Francisca' in a place called 'Quarta Colônia' (Fourth Colony), researchers of the Museu de Ciências Naturais da Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul (Museum of Natural Sciences of the Foundation Zoo-botanical of Rio Grande do Sul) e da USP (University of São Paulo) de Ribeirão Preto (city of São Paulo state) – they presented to the worldwide scientific community a fossil from 240 million years ago.

An article about the discovery was published this month (march) by the german scientific review Naturwissenschaften (Science and nature). The text is signed by the Paleontologists: Marco Aurélio Gallo de França (USP), Max Cardoso Langer (USP) e Jorge Ferigolo (of the Museum).

Nine of the ten fossils in the site were found together. Footprints of diferent sizes were found too. The researchers belive that they could made by a mothers and puppies. The animals are so much distant relatives of the actual crocodiles. Furthermore, the discovery is uncommon because the pieces were found almost entirely intacts.

The animals that are a new spécie that was identified like belonged to the Rauisuchia group and it was named Decuriasuchos quartacolonia. It was predator carnivore of the Triassic period. Its size was about 2.5 m and a half long and had serrated teeth.

SOURCES

Fundação apresenta fóssil de 240 milhões de anos encontrado no Estado IN Diário de Canoas/RS, published in 03/31/2011 [http://www.diariodecanoas.com.br/site/noticias/geral,canal-8,ed-60,ct-214,cd-312595.htm] Pesquisadores gaúchos e de Ribeirão identificam ‘avô’ do crocodilo. IN Jornal da Cidade/Ribeirão Preto/SP, published in 03/30/2011 [http://www.jornalacidade.com.br/editorias/cidades/2011/03/30/pesquisadores-gauchos-e-de-ribeirao-identificam-avo-do-crocodilo.html]

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Peru - Fossil shrimp from the Cretaceous period was found there 3 thousands and 700 meters altitute

A fossil shrimp of Cretaceous, this, found in Lebanon, similar to discovered at Peru.

PERU - In the northeastern region of Peruvian Amazon, Maranhão river basin, scientists found fossilized remains of a shrimp that belongs to Cretaceous geological period. It means that the specimen lived there is 85 million of years. In the city of Chiclayo, the director of the Paleontological Museum Honning Meyer, the paleontologist Klaus Honning, commented: It is a remarkable find because the muscles of the fossil are still intact. It is a very rare specimen, measuring 12 cm and gifted with four paws.

In January this year (2011), the age of this fossil and others was confirmed by the Institute of Prehistory of Germany. The location of the find can appears strange for a marine animal: 3 thousands and 700 meters above sea level. But it is not a suprise for the scientists. In the same region were also found fossilized remains of a squid that belongs to the same period.

Honning explains that in the place, in ancient Ages, a kind of salt lagoon was formed in there. Thus, these animals have evolved in the conditions of an ecosystem more or least isolated. The study of the shrimp of Cretaceous shrimp helps to better understand the evolutionary process of species that inhabited the seas of a geography that no more exist.

SOURCE: Peru: Descoberto camarão fossilizado do Cretáceo a 3 mil e 700 metros de altitute.
IN Google Notícias/AFP - published in 02/09/2011.
[http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gE9lu6CM0b7ozDGnCRi-jOGVEI1g?docId=CNG.a41cc318d94314c7fd9a40c07dc147a8.6a1].