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Watch Episode 4 of Blue Pints: Sea Grant and Sea Monsters

Posted on July 13, 2012October 27, 2013 By Andrew Thaler 2 Comments on Watch Episode 4 of Blue Pints: Sea Grant and Sea Monsters
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIfiPiQJ3pU

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Misunderstood Marine Life # 3 – Cryptics and Cryptids

Posted on October 6, 2011October 6, 2011 By Andrew Thaler
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In my mind, where I imagine people are so interested in what I do that they hang on every carefully chosen word I write, I imagine some unspecified mob of readers looking over my I *heart* cryptozoology post and going “Whoa now, pardner!” (yes, you all sound like cowboys in my mind) “You just said there was a difference between cryptozoology and real zoology, but you deal with cryptic species all the time! What’s up with that?”

Cryptic hammerhead shark. Photo from http://www.physorg.com/news68994294.html

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