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SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1997a). Potty about pottos.
Fortean Times
, No. 94 (January): 42.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1997b). Land of the lizard king.
Fortean Times
, No. 95 (February): 42-43.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1997c). The little howling god.
All About Dogs, 2
(July-August): 46-47.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1997d).
From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings
. Llewellyn Publications (St Paul).

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1998a). Meet Mongolia’s death worm: the shock of the new.
Fortean Studies
, 4 [the volume for 1997, but dated 1998]: 190-218.

SHUKER, Karl RN. (1998b). Making the most of the migo [in Alien Zoo].
Fortean Times
, No. 106 (January): 15.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1998c). Unmasking the onza — from Aztecs to Arizona.
All About Cats
, 5 (January-February): 44-45.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1998d). Shame about the shamanu [in Alien Zoo].
Fortean Times
, No. 107 (February): 15.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1998e). A devil of a mystery [in Alien Zoo].
Fortean Times
, No. 109 (April): 16.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1998f). A gravestone and an otter king.
History For All
, 1 (June-July): 48-49.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1998g). Turning turtle? [in Alien Zoo]
Fortean Times
, No. 113 (August): 18.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1998h). “A scaly tale from Rintja”.
Fortean Times
, No. 116 (November): 45.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (1999).
Mysteries of Flanet Earth
. Carlton (London).

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (2000). Close encounters of the cryptozoological kind.
Fate
, 53 (May): 26-9.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (2002a). Flying graverobbers.
Fortean Times
, No. 154 (January): 48-9.

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (2002b).
The New Zoo: New and Rediscovered Animals of the Twentieth Century
. House of Stratus (Thirsk).

SHUKER, Karl P.N. (2003). The deadly dodu [in Karl Shuker’s Alien Zoo].
Fortean Times
, No. 169 (April): 16.

SMITH, Malcolm (1996).
Bunyips and Bigfoots: In Search of Australias Mystery Animals
. Millennium Books (Alexandria, NSW).

SOULE, Graham (1981).
Mystery Monsters of the Deep
. Franklin Watts (New York).

SPEIGHT, W.L. (1940). Mystery monsters in Africa.
Empire Review
, 71: 223-228.

SPENGEL, J.W. (1932).
Planctosphaera pelagica. Scientific Results “Michael Sars” North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition
, 5:1-27.

TENNENT, J. Emerson (1861).
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts (London).

THIEL, Hjalmar & SHRIEVER, Gerd (1989). The DISCOL enigmatic species: a deep-sea pedipalp?
Senckenbergiana Maritima
, 20 (October): 171-175.

THOMAS, Lars (1996). No super-otter after all?
Fortean Studies
, 3: 234-236.

TISCHENDORF, Jay W. & ROPSKI, Steven J. (eds.) (1996).
Proceedings of the Eastern Cougar Conference, 1994
. American Ecological Research Institute (Fort Collins, Colorado).

TOHALL, Patrick (1948). The dobhar-chú tombstones of Glenade, Co. Leitrim.
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
, 78:127 129.

TRAJANO, E. & VIVO, M. de (1991).
Desmodus draculae
Morgan, Linares, and Ray, 1988, reported for Southeastern Brasil [sic], with paleoecological comments (Phyllostomidae, Desmodontinae).
Mammalia
, 55(3): 456-459.

TRATZ, Eduard-Paul (1958). Ein Beitrag zum Kapitel “Rohrwolf,”
Canis lupus minor
Mojsisovics, 1887.
Säugetierkundliche Mitteilungen
, 6: 160-162.

TROUGHTON, Ellis (1965).
Furred Animals of Australia
(8th edit.). Angus & Robertson (London).

WADE, Jeremy (1996). Tales from the bush.
BBC Wildlife
, 14 (June): 106.

WALLIS, Richard (1987). Letter to the editor.
British Herpetological Society Bulletin
, (autumn/winter): 65.

WALTERS, Michael (1980).
The Complete Birds of the World
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WHITTY, Angus (director) (1995).
In Search of the Giant Flying Snake of Namibia
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WILLIAMS, John G. (1967). An unsolved mystery.
Animals
, 10 (June): 73-75.

WILLIAMS, John G. & ARLOTT, Norman (1980).
A Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa
. Collins (London).

WOOD, Casey A. & WETMORE, Alexander (1926). A collection of birds from the Fiji Islands. Part III: Field observations.
Ibis
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YOUNG, Richard E. (1991). Chiroteuthid and related paralarvae from Hawaiian waters.
Bulletin of Marine Science
, 49 (1-2): 162-185.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 

I am truly grateful to the following persons, publications, and organizations for their much-appreciated assistance and interest shown to me throughout my preparation of this book and the original articles upon which it is based.

All About Cats, All About Dogs, Animals and Men
, Endymion Beer, Trevor Beer, Janet and Colin Bord, Mark Chorvinsky, Prof. John L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Loren Coleman, Gary Cunningham, Jonathan Downes, Drayton Manor Park & Zoo,
Enigmas
, Angel Morant Forés,
Fortean Studies, Fortean Times
, Philippa Foster, Richard Freeman, Bill Gibbons, Geoffrey R. Greed, J. Richard Greenwell, Paul Harris, Joe Harte, Bob Hay, David Heppell, Isabela Herranz, the late Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, the late John Edwards Hill,
History For All
, Dr. Shoichi Hollie, Tyson Hughes, International Society of Cryptozoology, Dr. Ron Johnstone, Gerard van Leusden, Dr. John

A. Long, Dr. Roy P. Mackal, Ivan Mackerle, Dr. Ralph Molnar, Steve Moore, Richard Muirhead, Darren Naish, Carina Norris, Heather Norris, Mark O’Shea, Harry Osoff, Michael Playfair, Alan Pringle, Marko Puljic, Dr. Clayton E. Ray, Michel Raynal, William M. Rebsamen, Bob Rickard, Ron J. Scarlett, Mary D. Shuker, Paul Sieveking, Malcolm Smith,
Strange Magazine
, Lars Thomas, Daev Walsh,
Wild About Animals
, Jan Williams, John G. Williams,
The X Factor
, and the Zoological Society of London.

In addition, I owe a special debt of gratitude, for their enduring support and encouragement, to my publisher Paraview, to my editor Patrick Huyghe, and to my agent, Mandy Little of Watson, Little Ltd.

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