text: By AnimalX May 7, 2016 July 26, 2018 Dinosaurs, Lake & Sea Monster Files, Monster Files, Mysterious Nature Files, News
  Bizarre Reptile
  Fossils shed light on ‘bizarre’ reptile
  By Helen Briggs BBC News
  Fossils shed light on bizarre reptile. A crocodile-sized creature that lived 242 million years ago was the first known vegetarian marine reptile, according to new fossil evidence.
  Two specimens unearthed in China reveal details of the animal’s skull and how it fed.
  Named Atopodentatus, scientists say its hammer-shaped skull helped it to feed on underwater plants.
  Only a handful of marine reptiles, living or extinct, are known to be herbivores.
  Dr Nick Fraser of National Museums Scotland, who worked on the fossil, said it belongs in the pages of a children’s storybook by Dr Seuss, which depicts animals with a strange jumble of features.
  The reptile was “a bizarre, bizarre animal”, he explained.
  “We envisage it scraping algae and the like off rocks underwater.
  “Herbivorous marine reptiles are very rare – this is the oldest record that we know of.”
  Strangely toothed
  The first fossils of the creature were discovered a few years ago.
  It was named Atopodentatus unicus, which is Latin for “unique strangely toothed”.
  A reconstruction of the animal’s head
  New fossils unearthed in China’s Yunnan Province by Chun Li of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing give a detailed picture of the animal’s skull.
  The discoveries, unveiled in the journal, Science Advances, show that rather than having a zipper-like snout as previously thought, the animal had a wide hammer-headed jaw filled with peg-like front teeth.
  Play-Doh
  Scientists used clay to make a model of the jaw to work out how the animal fed.
  “To figure out how the jaw fit together and how the animal actually fed, we bought some children’s clay, kind of like Play-Doh, and rebuilt it with toothpicks to represent the teeth,” said co-researcher Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum in Chicago.
  “We looked at how the upper and lower jaw locked together, and that’s how we proceeded and described it.”
  He said Atopodentatus also helps tell a bigger story about the world’s largest mass extinction 252 million years ago.
  It lived at a time when the Earth was recovering from the loss of 90% of all marine mammals.
  “The existence of specialised animals like Atopodentatus unicus shows us that life recovered and diversified more quickly than previously thought,” he said.
  “And it’s definitely a reptile that no one would have thought to exist – look at it, it’s crazy!”
  What you can make with clay and toothpicks
  Other bizarre sea and river monsters
  There are still many strange creatures lurking in the waters around the world. From the Monster of Lake Van in Turkey to the various unidentified creatures that live off the west of of Britain, the Golden Gate San Fransisco Bay monster to the Altamaha-ha river monster of Georgia in the USA.
  Here’s a video from Animal X Natural Mystery Unit that looks at sea and river monsters.
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  Terrified couple claim they saw a Werewolf
  By AnimalX April 16, 2016 July 26, 2018 Uncategorized
  Terrified couple draw picture of ‘Werewolf of Worcester’ after claiming to have bumped into it in the Cotswolds
  From Helena Horton The Telegraph
  They drew a picture of the fearsome beast they claim to have seen CREDIT: CATERS
  Terrified couple claim they saw a Werewolf.
  A terrified couple have drawn a sketch of a fearsome beast they claim to have seen while on a National Trust property at 1am in the Cotswolds.
  They also took a blurry picture of the animal, dubbed the ‘Werewolf of Worcester’ because the drawing, although it is said to be a big cat, has features of a werewolf.
  Robert Ingram and wife Nicola sketched what they saw – and the big cat appears to have features which resemble that of a werewolf.
  Werewolf drawing
  From their drawing, it appears to be standing upright like a humanoid creature, rather than crouching like a cat.
  The beast also has protruding, pointed teeth and fearsome, sharp cheekbones.
  The pair encountered what they are convinced was a black panther while driving through Croome Court – a National Trust property – at 1am last week.
  The couple said the creature weighed about nine stone and was as tall as their car window.
  They were convinced the big cat was going to pounce on their car before they sped off.
  Robert produced the sketch so animal experts can find out what the creature is.
  A photo of the beast CREDIT: SWNS
  He told The Mail: “It was petrifying. It looked like it was on steroids.
  “We were driving along outside the national trust property, there are lots of open fields around there, when suddenly, I spotted something in the road ahead.”
  “It was getting dark, but I saw its eyes reflect in my headlights.
  “We stopped the car, and it was just standing there.
  “We’d heard rumours about an escaped panther in the area, but we’d thought it was a load of nonsense.
  “But when I saw this animal with my own eyes, I was stunned. It was enormous, far too big for a fox or a dog. It must have weighed about 9 stone – about the same as a slim adult.
  “It looked right at us and walked up to the car. It then lowered the front of its body and looked like it was going to pounce.
  “We just slammed the car into reverse and went as far as we could.
  “I was so scared I fumbled to get my phone out to take a picture, but we’d already driven quite far away.
  “There was no way you were going to get me to go near it again to take a better picture. It was terrifying.”
  The couple think the creature has escaped from a zoo. There have been dozens of claims of escaped big cats in Worcestershire in recent years.
  A spokesman for Worcestershire Wildlife Trust told The Mail: “It is always possible that there is a panther, or other big cat, in our countryside but there hasn’t yet been any firm evidence to prove that they’re there.”
  Werewolf stories go back centuries. The most famous was in France. The Beast of Gevaudan which killed around 300 people. Check out the documentary.
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  Bones of a giant Moa bird found
  By AnimalX March 24, 2016 May 7, 2016 Dinosaurs, News, Sightings, Weird Animal Stories
  Giant bird bones found
  Bones of a giant Moa bird found
  By News from Elsewhere…
  …as found by BBC Monitoring
  Contractors at a site in southern New Zealand have made an unexpected find while digging a trench – dozens of bones belonging to a long-extinct species of giant bird.
  Workers spotted the bones during excavations in an area of South Canterbury which was once swamp land, the Stuff.co.nz website reports. They’ve been identified as belonging to a female South Island giant moa, an enormous flightless bird which roamed the area for millennia. One of the bones is thought to belong to a smaller male moa.
  Stumbling upon moa bones is increasingly rare, according to South Canterbury Museum director Philip Howe. “This is quite a significant find because in this day and age we’re not finding moa bones all round the place like people did maybe 100 years ago,” he tells the site. “A discovery is quite a chance thing – it’s not something you can just hope to go out and find.”
  Project manager Dave Sutton says the small size of the trench dug by his team made the discovery even more unlikely. “It’s not every day you dig a hole and find a moa,” he says. “Only one small hole and this is the result.”
  Among the nine species of moa, the largest stood at about 2m (6.5ft) tall and weighed a whopping 250kg (550lb), while others were closer to the size of a turkey. Unlike other flightless birds, moa had lost all trace of ever having wings. They were hunted to extinction after Polynesian colonists arrived in New Zealand around AD1300.
  How the newly excavated moa met their end isn’t clear. But Mr Howe says finding remains of both a male and female “begs the question: was this the tragic outcome of a Sunday picnic at the swamp with the moa family?”
  Moa
  Moa, extinct or not?
  The moa is thought to have been eaten to extinction by New Zealand’s Maori people. But there are those who disagree. Like the people who claim to have seen one. Here’s a story of two me who claim to have seen a moa on New Zealand’s South Island.
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  Animal X Files coming soon
  By AnimalX March 23, 2016 May 7, 2016 Bigfoot Files, Cats, Chupacabras Files, Dinosaurs, Dogs, Flying Monsters, Halloween, Killer Animal Files, Lake & Sea Monster Files, Monster Files, Mysterious Nature Files, News, Phantom & Ghostly Animal Files, Space Alien Files, Weird Animal Stories, Weird Science
  Animal X Files coming soon.
  Animal X is the first and premier TV series that looks at cryptozoology, paranormal, supernatural, aliens and UFO.
  Its files go back to last century. As well as having files that are full of stories from today.
  At last Animal X is opening its files for the first time to the public.
  In Animal X Files
  For the first time interviews with eyewitnesses, scientists, experts and others are going to be made available UN CUT right here on AnimalX.net, the official website of the TV series.
  el Chupacabra
  For the first time you will be able to see un-cut interviews with people who have been attacked by el Chupacabra. People who have seen and had a close encounter with Bigfoot.
  People who have been abducted by aliens and people who seen lake and sea and river monsters.
  People who have seen ghosts and much more.
  Also interviews with scientists who try to explain what is going on.
  People who believe we are in the ‘End Times’.
  Experts who have also investigated these phenomena and have no explanation.
  All Un-Cut.
  Monsters
  Animal X Files will also have uncut actuality from expeditions and hunts for these creatures.
  Here’s the 2 trailers that will give you some idea of what you can expect.
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  Nephilim, Satan, Fallen Angels, Giants, Aliens
  By AnimalX March 12, 2016 May 7, 2016 Bigfoot Files, Chupacabras Files, Flying Monsters, Monster Files, Mysterious Nature Files, News, Phantom & Ghostly Animal Files, Space Alien Files, Uncategorized, Weird Animal Stories
  Nephilim, Satan, Fallen Angels, Giants, Aliens, Hybrids, Elongated Skulls!
  el Chupacabra
  Animal X investigates the unknown, the unusual, the mysterious and the unexplainable. In short natural and supernatural mysteries.
  We have investigated sightings of mysterious animals, ghostly creatures, chupacabra, bigfoot, mothman, Reptoids – reptilian humanoids, aliens, anything paranormal, the supernatural. Anything that is classed as cryptozoological.
  Mothman
  There are many possible explanations for the stories we’ve covered. Or rather theories and ideas as to what these sightings are.
  Some theories or explanations are scientific based, others are cultural. Some people believe they are hoaxes, drug induced hallucinations. Others claim they are telling the truth. While others say aliens, hybrids, UFOs, and demons, are inter-dimensional creatures; and they are responsible.
  There are as many theories and ideas as to the truth, as there are stories of the unknown.
  But what is the truth?
  Who knows?
  Who can tell? We wont find out the truth until we actually die and go to where ever we are going, be it good or evil.
  Nephilim, Satan, Fallen Angels, Giants, Aliens and God.
  Here’s an interesting video with another take on the whole scene.
  This video claims that, what people are seeing are are evil entities. That apparitions like ghosts, aliens, Bigfoot, Chupacabra, Mothman and the like are inter-dimensional demons. The Nephilim, Satan’s demons and fallen angles are masquerading as these things.
  From Bigfoot to ghosts. From aliens to Chupacabra. They claim that Satan and his demons are hoodwinking humans into believing anything but the truth. That what we see, whether Bigfoot, Chupacabra or aliens are in fact demons. They claim this as the truth.
  It’s a long documentary but worth the watch. It would be good to get your take on what it is saying.
  https://youtu.be/-9f6kiZToYg
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  Amber-trapped lizard fossils reveal ‘lost world’
  By AnimalX March 5, 2016 May 7, 2016 Monster Files, Mysterious Nature Files, News, Sceincey Stuff, Weird Animal Stories
  Scientists say this fossil dates back 90 million years
  Amber-trapped lizard fossils reveal ‘lost world’
  By Helen Briggs BBC News
  Lizards locked in amber for 99 million years give a glimpse of a “lost world”, say scientists.
  The ancient reptiles are preserved in “superb detail” down to scales of skin, the tip of a tongue and tiny claws.
  Two of the fossils are related to modern-day chameleons and geckos, revealing how features such as sticky toe-pads evolved.
  The lizards inhabited tropical forests in what is now Myanmar during the Mid-Cretaceous Period.
  Researchers in the US have published their assessment of the specimens in the journal Science Advances.
  “The fossilised amber provides a view into a lost world, revealing that the tropics of the Mid-Cretaceous contained a diverse lizard fauna,” Dr Edward Stanley of the Florida Museum of Natural History told BBC News.
  Claw of lizard
  Some of the lizards are representatives of modern groups such as geckos, while others have no modern equivalent and eventually died out.
  One of the fossils appears to be a transitional form between the “standard” lizard form and chameleons, said Dr Stanley.
  “This ‘missing-link’ is roughly 80 million years older than the next oldest chameleon fossil, and shows that features like the chameleon’s projectile tongue was present deep in its ancestry,” he added.
  “But its strange fused toes (adaptations for climbing along branches) evolved later.”
  Snapshot of the past
  The amber fossils were obtained by private collectors and were acquired by museums in the US. They have now been collated and studied for the first time.
  “They provide details of external morphology, which is something that is pretty rare to find,” said Juan Diego Daza, of Sam Houston State University in Texas, who led the research.
  “These fossils represent most of the diversity of lizards with a superb amount of detail.”
  The whole picture
  Soft tissues and internal organs – as well as bones – can persist in amber for millions of years.
  “We can pretty much see how the animals looked when they were alive,” explained Prof Daza.
  “They provide a really nice snapshot of the past. To me it is like going back in time and doing a lizard collecting trip when we can see what these animals looked like.”
  Some of the smaller specimens are whole lizards but others are fragments of animals.
  Together, they could resolve some of the gaps in the family tree between ancient reptiles and their modern relatives.
  From one of the smallest and oldest to one of the largest
  Ever heard of the Megalania?
  Megalania is a giant lizard that used to live in Australia. Part of the Mega Fauna that used to roam the continent. In fact it was the largest land-living carnivorous lizard that ever walked the the planet. It was top of the food chain in Australia.
  Megalania
  Megalania has been extinct for tens of thousands of years.
  It’s not the sort of animal you’d like to meet on a dark night, or bright day for that matter.
  But one man from Sydney Australia claims to have come across one in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney.
  Reg Gilroy, a fossil hunter, claims one day while walking in the bush he came across a megalania. He wasn’t the only one. As this story says.
  https://youtu.be/ujkT8izw5jc?t=8m48s
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  This is really spooky. Alien, apparition, or what?
  By AnimalX February 27, 2016 May 7, 2016 Flying Monsters, Halloween, Monster Files, Mysterious Nature Files, News, Space Alien Files, Uncategorized
  Reptoid
  This clip is from Turkey
  This is really spooky. Alien, apparition, ghost or what? It was filmed at about 15 minutes to 2 in the morning on 12 February 2016, on a lonely street in Turkey.
  It was captured on a public security camera and then recorded on to a camera phone.
  It’s a bit grainy, but it shows something or someone walking down the street.
  This someone or something walks around for quite some time, but we have cut that bit off as it’s a bit boring.
  But then this someone or something just floats off into the air.
  That’s where we pick it up.
  It floats slowly up and out of frame. It stays aloft and out of frame for about 30 seconds. Then it suddenly descends to the ground again.
  There’s no doubt about it, it’s pretty spooky.
  What is it? Who Knows?
  It’s difficult to tell what it is. Alien, apparition, ghost or what.
  Its size is difficult to determine. Its form is difficult to make out. Some people say a penguin! Penguins in Turkey? Anyway penguins don’t fly.
  Others say an alien, a shapeshifter or a dimensional traveller, even a demon.
  What do you think. Any guesses?
  There is some dialogue towards the end – in the Turkish language if anyone can translate. Though I suspect they are discussing the apparition.
  https://youtu.be/zP_s7E_1DnY
  Sightings in Mexico
  Here’s another. Two strange flying creature this time from Monterey in Mexico.
  From Animal X Natural Mystery Unit Mothman and Other Winged Creatures, it was seen by dozens of people including a number of police officers.
  There are strange things flying in the sky down Mexico way. Check this out Witchy-woman and Bird Man aka Hombre Pajero.
  What do you think these things are.
  Put your thoughts in the comments box below.
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  From the Cutting Room Floor – Mothman
  By AnimalX January 11, 2016 May 7, 2016 Flying Monsters, Monster Files, News, Phantom & Ghostly Animal Files
  Mothman
  From the Cutting Room Floor
  Animal X is pleased to announce a new series of clips.
  From the Cutting Room Floor is a series of clips we are producing that looks at some of the material that didn’t make it into the completed episodes.
  Over the years we have shot a shed-load of interviews, sightings, artwork and other stuff that just wouldn’t fit into the programmes. After all you can only fit so much material into half an hour, or even an hour’s television.
  So we have decided to release this material through our Animal X website and YouTube channel www.youtube.com/animalxtv.
  We have video of all kinds of things including the latest sighting of the San Fransisco Bay Monster. UFO sightings and Bigfoot information and mysterious eyes and faces in the bush.
  If you’re into cryptozoology, the supernatural, paranormal or just plane mysteries than make sure you join Animal X to be kept informed of new stories. Either by entering your email address in the box on the right, or through our YouTube channel, FaceBook or Twitter.
  Here’s the first in the series. Spotlighting for Mothman, from Animal X Natural Mystery Unit episode 3. Mothman and other Winged Creatures.
  In this clip from the cutting room floor Daniel and Natalie are out spotlighting looking for anything that could be mistaken as Mothman.
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  Video of rare giant squid in Japanese harbour
  By AnimalX January 4, 2016 May 7, 2016 Lake & Sea Monster Files, Monster Files, Mysterious Nature Files, News, Uncategorized
  https://youtu.be/8zlVrFK47K8
  Video of rare giant squid in Japanese harbour
  A giant squid provided a rare treat for onlookers in Toyama Bay when one swam into the harbour.
  The 3.7m (12ft) cephalopod was much smaller than the 13m they can grow to.
  It spent several hours in the harbour on Christmas Eve and was filmed by local divers.
  Professional underwater cameraman Takayoshi Kojima told the BBC he rushed to the harbour when a marina manager called and he helped guide the squid to the exit to the sea, where it finally disappeared.
  Japanese researchers took pictures of the elusive creature hunting 900m down, enveloping its prey by coiling its tentacles into a ball.
  giant squid
  The images show giant squid, known as Architeuthis, are more vigorous hunters than has been supposed.
  The images, captured in the Pacific Ocean, appear in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
  Documentary companies have invested millions of dollars trying to film adult giant squid in their natural environment. These efforts have met with little success – though one team has managed to capture a juvenile on film.
  Japanese fishermen have taken snaps of an adult at the surface but, until now, no one had obtained images of the animal in its deep-sea hunting grounds.
  Slippery customer
  In their efforts to photograph the huge cephalopod, Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori, have been using a camera and depth recorder attached to a long-line, which they lower into the sea from their research vessel.
  Below the camera, they suspend a weighted jig – a set of ganged hooks to snag the squid – along with a single Japanese common squid as bait and an odour lure consisting of chopped-up shrimps.
  At 0915 local time on 30 September 2004, they struck lucky. At a depth close to 1km in waters off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands, an 8m-long Architeuthis wrapped its long tentacles around the bait, snagging one of them on the jig.
  Kubodera and Mori took more than 550 images of the giant squid as it made repeated attempts to detach itself.
  The pictures show the squid spreading its arms, enveloping the long-line and swimming away in its efforts to struggle free.
  Finally, four hours and 13 minutes after it was first snagged, the attached tentacle broke off, allowing the squid to escape. The researchers retrieved a 5.5m portion with the line.
  Severed appendage
  “It was exciting to get a live Architeuthis tentacle. It was still functioning when we got it on the boat,” Dr Kubodera told BBC News.
  giant squid tentacle
  The large suckers repeatedly gripped the boat deck – and Dr Kubodera’s fingers when he prodded the severed appendage.
  “The grip wasn’t as strong as I expected; it felt sticky,” he explained.
  But while other researchers have suggested that Architeuthis is a rather sluggish creature, the images show it is in fact an energetic predator.
  Dr Steve O’Shea, of the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, told the BBC News website that he was extremely pleased for the researchers.
  Kubodera, he said, had “ever-so-quietly been working away in the background on this for a number of years”.
  And Dr O’Shea, a world renowned expert on giant squid, added: “From the point of view of the public, who believe this squid is the largest, the meanest, most aggressive squid that we have – it is hugely significant.”
  Trawling threat
  The Auckland-based researcher said now that the squid had been caught on camera, researchers could focus on other, lesser known squid species and on conservation.
  Bottom-trawling by fisheries is destroying squid egg masses on the seabed, Dr O’Shea claimed. Evidence for this comes from an efficient squid predator – the sperm whale.
  “Five of the species of squid that were staple in the diet of the sperm whale are recognised in New Zealand as threatened solely as a consequence of the effects of deep-sea bottom-trawling.”
  “[Sperm whales] are returning from the Antarctic on their historic migratory route to one of the richest regions on Earth in terms of squid diversity. But the larder is bare and the poor things are washing up on the beaches here starved.”
  The giant squid is by no means the largest known. Several other species, including the colossal squid Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, are thought to grow larger.
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  Conspiracy theorists claim that ‘800-year-old cell phone’ was brought here by time traveling aliens
  By AnimalX January 4, 2016 January 4, 2016 Space Alien Files, Uncategorized, Weird Science
  From Fox 8
  Conspiracy theorists claim that ‘800-year-old cell phone’ was brought here by time traveling aliens
  Conspiracy theorists are claiming that an “800-year-old cell phone” was left behind by time traveling aliens.
  The London Daily Mail reported that an object which resembles a cell phone with cuneiform characters was reportedly found in Austria.
  MysteriousUniverse.org reported that the object was recently found by archaeologists digging in Fuschl am See, an Austrian municipality.
  But little is known about the apparent dig, leading many to believe the story is an elaborate hoax.
  Conspiracy theorists and “alien hunters” have been discussing the object online and some seem to believe the object proves that aliens exist.
  “It is evident from this cell phone like device that someone with an advanced knowledge of the future created it,” wrote Scott Waring, editor of UFO Sighting Daily.
  The markings on the “phone” resemble that of Cuneiform, a system of ancient writing developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.
  “Researchers unearthed a mysterious artifact from the thirteenth century with cuneiform writing that strangely resembles a cell phone,” according to the conspiracy website tothedeathmedia.com.
  The YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible posted a video about the alleged finding asking, “What is it? Is it evidence of an advanced civilization or time travel?”
  “Until further analysis of this Cuneiform tablet is completed we can only speculate at what it truly represents,” according to Paranormal Crucible. “Maybe one day, our true history will become clear and the bright light of truth will finally reveal its secrets.”
  Many people claim to have had an alien encounter. Even to have been abducted by aliens.
  Here’s an interview with two such people who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
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