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ShukerNature

This is the official blog of Dr Karl Shuker, the world's leading cryptozoological author and researcher. A qualified zoologist, he has written 32 books and countless articles on cryptozoological and zoomythological subjects, as well as other unexplained phenomena. He has also acted as consultant and/or contributor re several other major tomes and TV shows.

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ARE THERE GIANT SCORPIONS IN FLORIDA?

 Yours truly in front of a life-sized model of a giant prehistoric scorpion, on exhibition at London's Natural…

WHEN A BLUE-FEATHERED HARPY & A BLUE-DENIM BIKER DANCED THEIR PASSIONATE PAS DE DEUX D'AMOUR!

 An AI-generated image of a blue-feathered harpy & a blue-denim biker dancing their passionate pas de deux d'amour…

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT - TWO RECENTLY-REVEALED CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL EXAMPLES

 What happens when you ask AI to generate an image of a tall bipedal tailless monkey confronting a…

BRINGING TO LIFE THE (IN)FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPH OF LOYS'S APE: A SHUKERNATURE VIDEO(S) OF THE DAY

 A couple of photo-stills from my two AI-generated video clips of the familiar cropped version of the notorious…

SPOTTING A SPOTTED BUSHBUCK IN LIBERIA

 A typically-patterned male northern bushbuck in Senegal (© Lucy Keith-Diagne/Wikipedia – CC BY 4.0 licence) Bushbucks are the…

MANIFESTING THE MULILO - A RAINBOW-SUMMONED HILL-DRAGON, OR A LOATHSOME BLACK SLUG-SNAKE?

 Might the mulilo – if it exists – look something like this? (created by Dr Karl Shuker using…

SHUKERNATURE IS #1 – CONFIRMING WHAT MY COUNTLESS LOYAL SHUKERNATURE FANS AND FOLLOWERS HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN!

 FeedSpot's official opening image to its listing of the 15 Best UK Nature Blogs in 2025 (© FeedSpot)…

A DICYNODONT DEPICTION?

 Life restoration of Dicynodon lacerticeps, a dicynodont from the Late Permian, South Africa (© ДиБгд-Wikipedia – CC BY…

THE TANTALISING TWO-TONGUES IDENTIFIED AFTER ALMOST A CENTURY?

 A representation of what a two-tongues may have looked like based solely upon the original report's verbal description…

"BRING ME THE HEAD OF KING KONG!" – A SHUKERNATURE PICTURE OF THE DAY

 Vintage photograph of a man-made pantomime stage prop in the form of a giant primate head (but NOT…

PRESENTING THE PYRALLIS - BORN (AND BORNE) WITHIN THE FIERY FURNACES OF ANCIENT CYPRUS

 Is this what the fire-sustained pyrallis is said to have looked like in ancient Cyprus? This is #1…

SHEDDING LIGHT UPON THE MYSTERY OF LUMINOUS BIRDS - Part 2: ALL AGLOW WITH SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS!

 Is this what a luminous or glowing owl would look like? Sceptics notwithstanding, the phenomenon of luminous birds…

SHEDDING LIGHT UPON THE MYSTERY OF LUMINOUS BIRDS - Part 1: OWLS AND FOWLS AND HERONS THAT GLOW!

 Is this what a luminous or glowing owl would look like?  THE LUMINOUS OWLA marvellous fowl is the…

TONGUE-TIED BY THE TWO-TONGUES!

 Is this what Malaya's mystifying two-tongued cryptids looked like? (created by me using Grok X1) The days spanning…

SEEKING THE SCIENCE BEHIND RAZORTOOTH AND FRANKENFISH!

 My official Lionsgate Region 1 DVD of Razortooth (© Patricia Harrington/Gravedigger Films/Capital Art Entertainment (CAE)/PUSH/Lionsgate – reproduced here…

MONTEZUMA'S MYSTIFYING WOLF-PUMA – LESSER-KNOWN MEXICAN MYSTERY CATS, PART 3 (OF 3)

 Life-sized reconstruction of the North American scimitar cat Homotherium serum (© Dr Karl Shuker) So far, in Parts…

DEADLY DEER-PUMAS, LITTLE LIONS, GIANT JAGUARUNDIS, AND MORE! – LESSER-KNOWN MEXICAN MYSTERY CATS, PART 2 (OF 3)

 One long-recognized and three currently-unrecognized Mexican felids – (top left) the puma; (top right) the mazamiztli; (bottom left)…

RUFFED CAT REVELATIONS - LESSER-KNOWN MEXICAN MYSTERY CATS, PART 1 (OF 3)

 Reconstruction of the possible appearance in life of Mexico's mysterious ruffed cat (created by me using Grok X1)…

EVALUATING THE ELF CHIMP OF FLORIDA - GLOWING GREEN AND VERY MEAN!

 Is this what the elf chimp looked like? (created by me using Magic Studio) My previous ShukerNature blog…

GREEN PIGS THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS - MUSING ON THE MOME RATHS AND OTHER CARROLLIAN CREATURES.

 In Lewis Carroll's Looking-Glass Land, mome raths are small green pigs with long snouts (© Dr Karl Shuker)…

FINDING THE FEATHERED LIONS OF LARRY HAGMAN – AGAIN!

 Did American actor Larry Hagman see something like this during his 'trip'? My memory has always been akin…

PUTTING THE QUEENSLAND TIGER AND THE CONGOLESE WATER ELEPHANT IN THE PICTURE!

 My illustration of the Queensland tiger aka the yarri, which I prepared as a teenager back in the…

A FORMER FOXY FRIEND?

 Reconstruction of the likely appearance in life of the officially-extinct Argentinian avus fox Dusicyon avus (© Juandertail/Wikipedia –…

PUBLISHED TODAY, MY BRAND-NEW 35TH BOOK - 'SHUKERNATURE BOOK 4: TIJUANA'S ZEBRAS, TURKANA'S DANCING WORMS, AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE BLOG BEASTS'

 Featuring a vintage, suitably terrifying illustration of Wisconsin's hideous hodag glaring and frimacing at all potential readers, here…

HIDING FROM THE HIDE? EERIE DEEPSEA ENCOUNTERS WITH ABYSSAL ABOMINATIONS

 A photo-still from Encounter In The Abyss by Richard Svensson, depicting the nameless horror from the underwater abyss…