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Prof. Hall
rhall@csufresno.edu
Department of Physics
 
Cryptozoology
NS4: Science and Nonsense

Required Reading

Pick one topic below to write about


Other Questionable Critters: Cryptozoology

Loch Ness Monster:

 

Skeptics Dictionary: Loch Ness Monster

A huge amount of Nessie info (and purported evidence) can be found on The Legend of Nessie web page.

Bigfoot:

 

Skeptics Dictionary: Bigfoot (and other ape-like critters)

         Also: read up and comment on the Patterson Video (see links from Skeptics Dictionary web page)

Check out the Bigfoot Museum to see what the believers offer as evidence.

Finally-- read about the first Bigfoot hoaxer Ray Wallace
 

Chupacabra:

 

Skeptics Dictionary: Chupacabras

Web pages on this topic are not as sophisticated. Mostly we have many unverified reports.

Here is one interesting report http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7076192.stm

Zoology:

Actual Amazing Animals

 

 

The amazing story of the Coelacanth: DINOFISH.com

Sad story of the last "Tasmanian Wolf" at The Thylacine Museum. Not a wolf at all but a marsupial predator that was hunted to extinction.

A real sea monster: In Search of Giant Squid