Matt's Sci/Tech Blog

The Brilliant Abyss : Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep  Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It Helen Scales (2021: Atl...

 I came across this site today. It collects 152 appearances of cryptids in printed comics, and I wish I could read them all.  They range f...

 The parade of new species shows no signs of ending.  Many people miss this because popular media covers only discoveries that are spectacul...

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Five decades ago, Dr. Ernst Mayr wrote that we'd found almost all the birds.  The great evolutionary biologist (1904-2005) was happy to ...

  This is one of the foundational works of cryptozoology, published in English in 1968. How does it hold up? In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents...

 Yesterday I dropped in on Denver FanExpo, formerly Denver Pop Culture Convention, formerly ComiCon. I said hi to other writers, handed out ...

This is really cool, Shelly's eagle-owl ( Bubo shelleyi ) (aka the dark eagle-owl) was described in 1872 from a single specimen and rema...

 Gone: A Search for What Remains of The World's Extinct Creatures Blencowe, Michael (2021: Leaping Hare Press, 192pp.) What remains of a...

Writer friends: I'll be at MileHiCon, the conference for lovers of literary science fiction, in Denver this weekend to appear on two pan...

Exactly one day after I wrote a post holding out some hope for the ivory-billed woodpecker, the US government has spoken: there isn't an...

 Is there hope? A little bit. Maybe an extremely little bit. But for myself, I haven't quite closed the file.  Audubon published this ar...

 Coming Soon! Out on all platforms December 1. The date it's available for preorders has not yet been set by the publisher. Enjoy 380 re...

 Wow. I never liked the "Clovis first" hypothesis that placed the first people in the Americas only 10-12,000 years ago.  The popu...

I want to go to space. Always have, always will.  So the first mission to orbit with non-professional astronauts was really, really cool.  T...

Sometimes Amazon reviews of The Dolmen make my day. I set out wit this novel to create a new and plausible "monster," something ...

  Friends, I’ll be on Colin Schneider’s cryptozoology radio show on Monday the 13th at 8PM Eastern. I’ll be announcing the publisher and re...

  Review: PNSO Dunkleosteus PSNO is a scientific art shop in China, and their new Dunk is certainly a work of art. This vinyl model, just ov...

  The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures deBuys, William (2015: Little, Brown and Company, 364pp.) Anyone po...

  Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures Hurn, Samantha (editor) (2016: Routledge, 263pp.) This is...