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At the end of yesterday's mashup of alien invasions and giant superintelligent (and malevolent) bugs, I wrote that I couldn't guess ...

A paper appeared last week in the Journal of Zoology  that has elicited a good bit of self-satisfied chortling amongst the people who think ...

It's been a while since we've looked at anything of a cryptozoological nature here at Skeptophilia , so I'd like to rectify that...

One thing I find to be somewhere between amusing and maddening is the length to which people will go to hang on to their cherished notions. ...

You know, I am freakin' well fed up  with paranormal shit happening when I'm not around. I live only ten miles from the supposed hom...

A couple of days ago, I posted a piece claiming that quantum physics (specifically, string theory) proved the existence of the Lovecraftian ...

Lately there's been a surge of Bigfoot sightings in North Carolina. These sorts of things are fuel to the cryptozoologists' fire. ...

I got an email from a friend and long-time loyal reader of Skeptophilia  last week, to the effect that I'd picked a hell of a time to ta...

Diehard believers in the Yeti -- known in North America as Sasquatch or Bigfoot -- have this tendency when confronted to bring out such dubi...

There's a scuba diving site off the coast of Belize called the Blue Hole.  It's a circular limestone sinkhole in the middle of Light...

There was a bit of an uproar amongst science-minded types in New Mexico last year when it became known that Dr. Christopher Dyer , executiv...