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 In October of 2015, at a conference in Hot Springs Montana, Author Russell Acord, and Ed Brown sat down and started planning the first International Bigfoot Conference. While they didnât agree on everything, the one thing they all agreed on was; they had to create a conference with a purpose, and that purpose was to provide an opportunity for up and coming researchers to share the stage with some of the biggest names in the world of Bigfoot research.Â
They knew that if we could pull our resources together; they could create an event to rival the best ones out there. So they set out to bring in some top respected speakers to share the platform with some that have earned recognition for their own research.  they started with three outstanding up and comers; Kirk Brown from California, Misty Allabaugh from Montana, and Becky Cook from Idaho. While it is hard to call any of the âUp and Comersâ, they were confident they have chosen three candidates who are soon to be stars.Â
Now came the task of looking for the big names that could schedule the time to join them on the stage in Kennewick Washington. Ed first talked to Stacy Brown Jr, and was delighted that he was âall inâ. Then, on the Derek Randles, Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Todd and Diane Neiss, Mitchel Townsend, Shane Corson and Gunnar Monson. But they werenât done yet; they wanted to add world renowned cryptologists, Adam Davies and Ken Gerhard who confirmed that they were both âcompletely on boardâ. And while we wonât give their names just yet, they are awaiting response from a few more legends in community to round out our list of esteemed speakers and guests.
2016 International Bigfoot Conference
 For more information check out their website and if you are down that way definitely join the conference. It sounds great.
Hereâs some great stories of Bigfoot featuring at least one of their guests Dr Jeff Meldrum. Â This is the famous Skookum Cast Expedition.Â
A parasitoid wasp (Pteromalus puparum) (Credit: John Abbott/NPL)
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Spiders turned into zombies by parasitic wasps modify their webs to serve their new masters.
When a parasitic wasp skewers an orb spider and glues an egg to its back, she sets off a chain of events that soon alters the behavior and destiny of the spider. A new study from the host-parasite pairâs Japanese homeland shows that, some time after the egg hatches, the spider abruptly abandons its former lifestyle and follows a precisely choreographed sequence of actions that modify its normal web-building activities to produce the best possible home for a developing wasp.
zombie spider
Zombie Web Design
Transformed by the ichneumonid wasp Reclinervellus nielseniâs sting into an obedient zombie, the orb-weaving spider Cyclosa argenteoalba does more than nourish the waspâs larva with its own inward parts. The zombie spider serves its new master by modifying its web design to make a stronger-than-normal web devoted to the protection of the waspâs pupal cocoon. No longer concerned with catching prey for itself, the spider reworks its web to build a hammock of extra-strong non-sticky silks that will ultimately cradle the cocoon.
Kobe Universityâs Keizo Takasuka and colleagues, who published their work in The Journal of Experimental Biology, painstakingly searched for spiders already parasitized by the wasp and then observed how the spidersâ behavior was affected. They also collected and observed the behavior of normal spiders.
This modified web design is actually an enhanced version of the resting web the orb spider normally builds to protect itself when molting. A spider sheds its exoskeleton in order to grow and is helpless during this time. A normal spider molts nestled in its resting web for just two days, but to accommodate the 10-day period wasps require to pupate in their cocoons, the parasitized spider builds an unusually durable web. It spends 10 hours repeating certain web-building steps over and over, reinforcing the web with additional threads until it produces a web of large-diameter silks with increased tensile strength. It leaves out the sticky stuff. Once its construction operation is complete, the zombie spider sits in the center of the web until the larva consumes the rest of its body fluids and kills it. Then the larva morphs into a pupa and emerges 10 days later as a mature wasp
Shining in the Light
The zombie spider decorates this specialized resting web with ultraviolet-reflecting silks. These deter web-destroying collisions with birds. Scientists used to think that the ultraviolet-reflecting silks in spider webs attracted prey, but their routine inclusion in resting webs of molting spiders and the webs of nocturnal spiders suggests otherwise. The fact that these particular zombie spiders, following their detailed and very pragmatic altered programming, include UV-reflecting dĂŠcor in their cocoon webs while leaving out sticky fibers altogether is consistent with this view. So is the fact that the prey-capture regions of the normal orb webs studied by this Japanese team were unadorned with UV-reflecting fibers.
It appears the UV-reflecting webs are Godâs design to protect spider webs from being destroyed by bird collisions. Studies have shown the UV-reflecting silks really do deter bird collisions. At least one company is now manufacturing glass incorporating a web of UV-reflecting strips to prevent birds from crashing into windows. This example of biomimicryâtechnology based on designs found in natureânow protects birds soaring around the observation tower on the Holy Island of Lindesfarne, a center for Celtic Christianity off the coast of England dating back to the 6th century.
Biomimicry
UV-reflecting silk is just one of many biomimetic applications the study of spiders has provided. For instance, spiders produce several different kinds of silk. A gene that produces a protein in the dragline silk of one species of orb spider has been used to produce transgenic goats that produce recoverable silk in their milk, a protein that can be used to produce fibers stronger than steel for use in artificial joints, bulletproof vests, and parachutes. Biomimetic breakthroughs in technology are imitations of Godâs designs. Zombie-creating parasites like this wasp and its parasitized partner can reveal much about the common designs created by God and how even their variations and derangement can work together to perpetuate species in this sin-cursed world.
World Gone Wrong
The fallen world we live in since man sinned supplies an endless variety of examples illustrating what can go wrong. Or, from the point of view of parasitic wasps fulfilling their instinct to multiply using the best available resources, what can go right! How do such parasitic relationships develop?
Parasites survive at the expense of their victims, ordinarily sparing the life of the victim until it is no longer needed.Parasites that manipulate host behavior do so in a way to enhance their own growth or dispersion. Ichneumonid wasps ensure their larvae will be fed by recruiting insects or spiders to donate their bodily fluids to nourish wasp larvae. And the Reclinervellus wasp is not the only ichneumonid that reproduces by providing its larvae with living meals while also manipulating the spiderâs web-building behavior to provide each pupa a haven. A Costa Rican wasp, for instance, Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga, follows a similar strategy utilizing the orb-weaving spider Plesiometa argyra.
In fact it was to the Ichneumonidae family of wasps that Charles Darwin referred when he wrote to botanist Asa Gray, questioning how a good God could create such a cruel system. Darwin wrote, âThere seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.â5
God created a perfectly good world (Genesis 1:31) and presented it to man (Genesis 1:26â28). Darwin failed to recognize that Godâs good world went wrong because of manâs sinful rebellion. The New Testament reinforces this Old Testament truth, Romans 8:19â23 confirming that that the whole of creation groans in slavery to corruption in the wake of manâs sin. (Read more about this in âThe Fall and the Problem of Millions of Years of Natural Evil.â) Thedeath and suffering that afflict not only people but also animals are consequences of human rebellion against God.
Cruelty and the Curse
Darwin complained that he could not envision the cruelty of nature as part of a good Godâs design, yet in order for the living things in this sin-cursed world to endure for the past 6,000 years, variations and even derangements of Godâs designs have allowed life to go on. Many organisms have adapted by developing defense and attack structures. (Read more about these in âHow Did Defense/Attack Structures Come About?â and entomologist Dr. Gordon Wilsonâs article on âDivinely Designed Defenses.â) The study of parasites like the ichneumonid wasps will help answer Darwinâs concern by helping us understand what good purposes these organisms were designed to serve in the pre-Fall world as well as the changes that led to the development of parasitic lifestyles after the Fall. Be sure to read more about this in Dr. Matthew Ingleâs article âParasitology and Creation.â
Spiders today are carnivores, most paralyzing prey caught in their webs and enzymatically digesting and consuming them. (It is curious that most news articles about these zombie spiders paint a horrific image of the spidersâ fate but fail to mention the daily dietary practices of spiders, which are certainly no kinder.) Carnivory and parasitism are both consequences of sinâs curse. We know from Godâs Word (Genesis 1:29â30) that animals did not originally eat other animals.
So what did spiders eat? We cannot be dogmatic about the behavior of pre-Fall animals 6,000 years removed from our ability to observe them, but we can reasonably speculate that they could have subsisted on pollen grains caught in their webs. This is not idle speculation. While spiders today are not generally herbivorous, a mostly herbivorous spider living on the Bullhorn acacia tree feeds on the treeâs Beltian bodies.6 And a 2013 study found that 25% of the diet of the juvenile orb-weaving spiders analyzed consisted of pollen grains caught in their webs. The pollen grains in the study were large enough to require active digestion by the spidersâ extraoral enzymes and were likely consumed while the spiders were recycling their webs.7 Thus it is no stretch to propose that before the Fall spiders wereherbivorous, and spider webs may have originally functioned as pollen catchers.
But what about parasites like the ichneumonid wasps? If God did not originally design these wasps to turn their hosts into zombies, how did they get to be that way? While we cannot go back and observe the process by which an animal, plant, or fungus became a parasite, we can be confident that all the original created kinds of organisms fulfilled helpful, not harmful, roles in the good world God made. Since the Fall, a combination of mutations and other genetic mechanisms, phenotypic plasticity, natural selection, and environmental changes that have altered available resources have produced many harmful varieties of organisms as well as created both symbiotic and parasiticrelationships that ultimately ensure the survival of many species that might otherwise become extinct.
And if the incidence of parasitism in this Japanese pair is any indication, the spider population is not exactly being decimated by the predations of parasitic wasps. It took Keizo Takasukaâs team many days to find 23 parasitized spiders among the 1,615 spiders they inspected.8 Similarly, in a study of zombie ants last year, scientists found that a parasitic fungus infected only a small percentage of the carpenter ants in its ecosystem in order to survive. (Read more about it in âZombie Ants and Genesis.â) Thus in the post-Fall world in which we live, carpenter ant populations survive to decompose dead wood, wasps survive to continue their valuable pollinating activities, and plenty of spiders survive to continue controlling insect populations.
Usurping the Normal, Not Evolving the New
Further research is needed to discover the chemical agent(s) the wasp or its larva uses to induce the spiderâs zombification, causing it to repeat various steps in the normal web-building process over and over while eliminating others. However, a spiderâs hormones normally trigger the molting process for which the spider builds a resting web. Therefore, Takasuka and colleagues suspect the wasp is injecting a chemical that mimics the hormone that normally directs the spider to molt.
The same is true of a behavior-altering virus that induces zombie-like behavior in gypsy moth caterpillars. It deactivates their molting hormone, prompting infected caterpillars to climb to treetops where they die and rain their viral load over a wide area. (See âParasites Affect Behavior of Moths.â)
None of these parasitic relationships or zombie-generating species result from molecules-to-man evolution. This parasitic partnership is an example of an extended phenotypeâall the effects a waspâs gene has, including its effects on another organism (the spider). Parasitic wasps are still wasps, just a family of wasps that now depends on a rather elaborate form of carnivory to reproduce. The spider is still a spider, and even its behavior is a modification of an existing one. Indeed, if these wasps are able to supply a biochemical mimic of the spiderâs own hormone, as the authors suggest, such a biochemical similarity exists because all creatures share a common Designer. These and other extraordinary variations were designed by our wise God to be somehow manifested after the Fall. Even though these insidious lifecycles highlight the ugliness of death due to sinâs curse, they still allow the created kinds to reproduce in a fallen world.
Fossils shed light on bizarre reptile. A crocodile-sized creature that lived 242 million years ago was the first known vegetarian marine reptile, according to new fossil evidence.
Two specimens unearthed in China reveal details of the animalâs skull and how it fed.
Named Atopodentatus, scientists say its hammer-shaped skull helped it to feed on underwater plants.
Only a handful of marine reptiles, living or extinct, are known to be herbivores.
Dr Nick Fraser of National Museums Scotland, who worked on the fossil, said it belongs in the pages of a childrenâs storybook by Dr Seuss, which depicts animals with a strange jumble of features.
The reptile was âa bizarre, bizarre animalâ, he explained.
âWe envisage it scraping algae and the like off rocks underwater.
âHerbivorous marine reptiles are very rare â this is the oldest record that we know of.â
Strangely toothed
The first fossils of the creature were discovered a few years ago.
It was named Atopodentatus unicus, which is Latin for âunique strangely toothedâ.
A reconstruction of the animalâs head
New fossils unearthed in Chinaâs Yunnan Province by Chun Li of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing give a detailed picture of the animalâs skull.
The discoveries, unveiled in the journal, Science Advances, show that rather than having a zipper-like snout as previously thought, the animal had a wide hammer-headed jaw filled with peg-like front teeth.
Play-Doh
Scientists used clay to make a model of the jaw to work out how the animal fed.
âTo figure out how the jaw fit together and how the animal actually fed, we bought some childrenâs clay, kind of like Play-Doh, and rebuilt it with toothpicks to represent the teeth,â said co-researcher Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum in Chicago.
âWe looked at how the upper and lower jaw locked together, and thatâs how we proceeded and described it.â
He said Atopodentatus also helps tell a bigger story about the worldâs largest mass extinction 252 million years ago.
It lived at a time when the Earth was recovering from the loss of 90% of all marine mammals.
âThe existence of specialised animals like Atopodentatus unicus shows us that life recovered and diversified more quickly than previously thought,â he said.
âAnd itâs definitely a reptile that no one would have thought to exist â look at it, itâs crazy!â
What you can make with clay and toothpicks
Other bizarre sea and river monsters
There are still many strange creatures lurking in the waters around the world. From the Monster of Lake Van in Turkey to the various unidentified creatures that live off the west of of Britain, the Golden Gate San Fransisco Bay monster to the Altamaha-ha river monster of Georgia in the USA.
Hereâs a video from Animal X Natural Mystery Unit that looks at sea and river monsters.
just a few of the dogs destined for the dinner plate
For the Yulin dog meat festival, dogs are stolen from their owners, then beaten or bled to death. Theyâre hung upside down from hooks, a slit cut from their anus and skin ripped off their bodies, then sold to be eaten.
The suffering must be unbearable â new research shows that in terms of emotion, dogsâ brains are much like ours, something dog owners and lovers understand well. When we see dogs for what they are â living beings with thoughts and feelings â the torture they endure at this âfestivalâ becomes inexcusable.
these poor, terrified dogs
Thousands of Chinese citizens have protested the festival, but authorities wonât act until they see how badly itâs hurting Chinaâs global image, which theyâve been working hard to improve. Thatâs where we come in. Letâs show the Chinese government that the world is calling on them to stop this puppy slaughter immediately!
When our numbers are great enough, Avaaz will take out ads, work with influential celebrities, run the first independent national poll on dog-eating in China, and put this issue on front pages everywhere until Chinese authorities act. Add your name and tell everyone.
Sign the petition to stop this cruel and wicked festival.
âWorldâs oldest dogâ Maggie dies at the age of 30 leaving her owner devastated.
From the Daily Mail.
Maggie the Kelpie, an Australian dog that was thought to be the oldest in the world, has died at the age of 30 leaving her owner devastated.
She was the best friend of Victorian dairy farmer Brian McLaren who confirmed the news, saying that Maggie passed away peacefully on Sunday night.
The beloved dog was still wandering around the dairy in Woolsthorpe, west of Melbourne, and growling at cats in the weeks before her death.
But Mr McLaren said that the Kelpie, who was more than 200 in dog years, went downhill in her last two days.
Maggie the Kelpie, an Australian dog that was thought to be the oldest in the world, has died at the age of 30 leaving her owner Brian McLaren (pictured) devastated
She was 30 years old, she was still going along nicely last week, she was walking from the dairy to the office and growling at the cats and all that sort of thing,â Mr McLaren told the Weekly Times.
âShe just went downhill in two days and I said yesterday morning when I went home for lunch ⌠âShe hasnât got long nowâ.
âIâm sad, but Iâm pleased she went the way she went.â
Maggie has already been buried beside the McLarenâs other dog in a marked grave under a pine tree.
Mr McLaren said that the Kelpie, who was approaching her third century in human years, went downhill in her last two days.
The beloved dog was still wandering around the dairy in Woolsthorpe, west of Melbourne, and growling at cats in the weeks before her death
A manâs best friend
âWe were great mates, it is a bit sad,â he said.Â
Maggie was a contender for the oldest dog in the world, but Mr McLaren lost the original paperwork for the dog, meaning that her age could not be independently verified.
The Western District owner previously spoke about the fact that his youngest son, Liam, was four years old when they bought Kelpie Maggie as a young pup. Liam is now 34.
Officially, the title of the oldest dog in the world still belongs to Bluey, an Australian cattle-dog from Rochester in Victoria, which reached 29 years and five months.Â
According to the Guinness Book of Records his owner bought him as a puppy in 1910 and he grew up to work among the sheep and cattle until he was put down in November 1939.
Dogs are amazing creatures. There are so many stories about how a dog has saved its owner, or travelled enormous distances to be with its owner, or how they sniff out drugs, explosives even cancer.
Hereâs an amazing story about some dogs that travelled hundreds of kilometres to be with their owners. Dogs are undoubtedly our best friends.
They drew a picture of the fearsome beast they claim to have seen CREDIT: CATERS
Terrified couple claim they saw a Werewolf.
A terrified couple have drawn a sketch of a fearsome beast they claim to have seen while on a National Trust property at 1am in the Cotswolds.
They also took a blurry picture of the animal, dubbed the âWerewolf of Worcesterâ because the drawing, although it is said to be a big cat, has features of a werewolf.
Robert Ingram and wife Nicola sketched what they saw â and the big cat appears to have features which resemble that of a werewolf.
Werewolf drawing
From their drawing, it appears to be standing upright like a humanoid creature, rather than crouching like a cat.
The beast also has protruding, pointed teeth and fearsome, sharp cheekbones.
The pair encountered what they are convinced was a black panther while driving through Croome Court â a National Trust property â at 1am last week.
The couple said the creature weighed about nine stone and was as tall as their car window.
They were convinced the big cat was going to pounce on their car before they sped off.
Robert produced the sketch so animal experts can find out what the creature is.
A photo of the beast CREDIT: SWNS
He told The Mail: Â âIt was petrifying. It looked like it was on steroids.
âWe were driving along outside the national trust property, there are lots of open fields around there, when suddenly, I spotted something in the road ahead.â
âIt was getting dark, but I saw its eyes reflect in my headlights.
âWe stopped the car, and it was just standing there.
âWeâd heard rumours about an escaped panther in the area, but weâd thought it was a load of nonsense.
âBut when IÂ saw this animal with my own eyes, I was stunned. It was enormous, far too big for a fox or a dog. It must have weighed about 9 stone â about the same as a slim adult.
âIt looked right at us and walked up to the car. It then lowered the front of its body and looked like it was going to pounce.
âWe just slammed the car into reverse and went as far as we could.
âI was so scared I fumbled to get my phone out to take a picture, but weâd already driven quite far away.
âThere was no way you were going to get me to go near it again to take a better picture. It was terrifying.â
A spokesman for Worcestershire Wildlife Trust told The Mail:Â âIt is always possible that there is a panther, or other big cat, in our countryside but there hasnât yet been any firm evidence to prove that theyâre there.â
Werewolf stories go back centuries. The most famous was in France. The Beast of Gevaudan which killed around 300 people. Check out the documentary.