It is Monday morning, and apropos of nothing, I am reminding people that pre-orders are crucial for a book, and I would love it if you pre-ordered mine, which is out October 14. Come for The Paris Review/CIA shenanigans, stay for the cryptozoology.

Awr Bamiyas It sounds like an irregular or folded dorsal fin apex (which can be congenital or pathological), which have been observed in sharks before. researchgate.net/publication/26… imkeaquablog.wordpress.com/2017/04/01/sha…

Hearing news that primatologist Prof Jeff Meldrum - probably best known as lone extant academically qualified advocate of the supposed biological reality of #bigfoot - died Tuesday after sudden downturn in health. Thanks Brandon Peecock of Idaho State University for info.

Nothrotheriops Shasta ground sloth in a Pleistocene low desert refugium near the Colorado River, before creosote moved in. One of my older pieces, colored pencil on paperboard, 1991. #paleoart

One of these is not like the others.

Trying to hammer out the giant clam illustration. I really want to try and have some vibrant colors on this one.

The Cryptid Archive had me dig up this cool old drawing of a flying snake in Mexico. This dates all the way back to 1932 when a Nebraskan man went looking for one, but was unable to capture a specimen

During the 19th century, a few naturalists reported seeing or collecting star-nosed moles in California, Oregon, and Washington. However, the star-nosed mole is only known to exist in northeastern North America, with all northwestern fossils being many millions of years old.