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Can a Sheep and a Dog Give Life to a New Kind of Sheep-Dog? Probably Not

By Lee SpeigelApr 4th 2011 – 7:31AM
Splash News

Splash News

This farm has gone to the dogs, or should we say "sheep dogs." Well, seeing is believing -- unless, of course, what we're seeing is either a hoax or an odd joke played by Mother Nature on a farmer. Basically, simply, allegedly, a sheep in China has given birth to a dog. There, we've said it, but is this impossibility of...

Chupacabra Monster May Be Mitey-er Than First Imagined

By Lee SpeigelNov 4th 2010 – 4:00PM
Eric Gay, AP

Eric Gay, AP

(Nov. 4) -- As stories continue to emerge from Mexico and the American Southwest of a legendary creature known as the chupacabra (Spanish for "goat sucker"), identifying at least a few of these animals may be a more simple task. Some researchers now believe the mysterious four-legged killer and livestock blood sucker may,...

Exclusive: Traces of Red Panda Found in Tennessee

By Lee SpeigelAug 9th 2010 – 4:41PM
Joerg Koch, AFP / Getty Images

Joerg Koch, AFP / Getty Images

(Aug. 9) -- It has the face of a giant panda bear and the body of a small raccoon. This unusual, cuddly-looking animal is the red panda, and until recently, was only believed to be native to the mountains of Nepal, Burma and China. Now, according to recent fossil findings, it appears the enigmatic red cousin to the...

No Sea Serpents Here, Says UK's Royal Navy

By Lee SpeigelMay 27th 2010 – 10:51AM
International Cryptozoology Museum

International Cryptozoology Museum

(May 27) -- When I was a kid, one of my favorite TV shows was a puppet series called "Time for Beany," about the adventures of a young boy, Beany, and his friend, Cecil, the Seasick Sea Serpent. I wondered why we never saw Cecil's tail -- it was always hidden, just like the alleged archives of sea monster sightings in the...

Police Tried to Protect 'Nessie' From Hunters

By Lee SpeigelApr 28th 2010 – 5:41PM
Keystone / Getty Images

Keystone / Getty Images

(April 28) -- A Scottish police chief in the 1930s believed the Loch Ness monster existed and tried to protect the unknown animal from hunters who targeted "Nessie" with harpoons. Documents released this week by the National Archive of Scotland reveal that, in the 1930s, local authorities tried to get the Scottish...

Background on loren coleman

Loren Coleman (born 1947) is an author of books on a number of topics, including cryptozoology, who was born in 1947 in Norfolk, Virginia and grew up in Decatur, Illinois.

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