The Phantom Empire (1935) is a fantasy Western film serial about a cowboy discovering the lost continent of Mu buried beneath his dude ranch. The Muranians inhabit a technologically advanced underground city, with televisions and ray guns. #WyrdWednesday

In 1842 the Eng. word dinosaur,
from the Gk. deinos ‘fearsome’+ sauros ‘lizard', was invented by palaeontologist Richard Owen. Intended to describe Victorian discoveries of fossil reptiles, the word came to include every beast once identified as 'dragon'. The association continues... #WyrdWednesday

New Zealand's tuatara looks like a lizard but belongs to a different reptile lineage, Rhynchocephalia. Its relatives flourished alongside dinosaurs. Today, the tuatara is the sole surviving representative of that ancient order. One very old branch of the family tree remains. #WyrdWednesday

Guess I can get away with resharing this for today's #WyrdWednesday too

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `The #boobrie (https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Boobrie) is a mythological shapeshifting entity inhabiting the lochs of the west coast of #Scotland. It commonly adopts the appearance of a gigantic water bird, but it can also materialise […]

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#WyrdWednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social #Celtic: `The #boobrie (cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Boobrie) is a mythological shapeshifting entity inhabiting the lochs of the west coast of #Scotland. It commonly adopts the appearance of a gigantic water bird, but it can also materialise in the form of
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#WyrdWednesday "We all stood in motionless amazement... five of the most extraordinary creatures... they looked like monstrous kangaroos, twenty feet in length, & with skins like black crocodiles."

🎨 'Glade of the Iguanodons' by Patrick Lewis Forbes for Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912)

The Wollemi pine was known to science only after a park ranger found living trees in an isolated Australian gorge in 1994. Its broader lineage stretches deep into the fossil record. Sometimes a "lost world" is not an island of dinosaurs. It's a grove nobody noticed. #WyrdWednesday

#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `For three days and three nights Maelduin an his men were tossed upon the sea, finding neither land nor ground. But on the morning of the third day they put in close to a shore.
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Thank you, wyrd Mothers @cwreeve.bsky.social & Sam for doing the Mary Anning and collecting wynderful bones all #Wyrdwednesday so far - emerging for the Land that Time has forgot is fossile Mother @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social now to be anachronistic with you Wyrdlings for the next two hours!

Strange Chameleons

Brehm's Life of Animals
1895
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#WyrdWednesday In 1856 it was reported that during construction of a railway tunnel in France a fearsome creature emerged alive from within a hollow in the rock, before expiring shortly after. It had a long neck, sharp teeth and membranous wings. A naturalist identified is a Pterodactylus anas...

#WyrdWednesday 🐉 High in mountains & shadowy caves, ancient #wyrms slithered: scaled, venomous & wingless.
From Germanic lore, the wyrm was a great serpent or dragon, haunting tales from Beowulf to Tolkien’s Smaug.
Before dragons breathed fire, there were wyrms. 🐲

🎨by illustrator John Bauer, 1911.

#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `For three days and three nights Maelduin an his men were tossed upon the sea, finding neither land nor ground. But on the morning of the third day they put in close to a shore. Lots were cast to decide which among them should visit the […]

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In many Indigenous traditions of the Plains, Pacific Northwest & Great Lakes, the mighty #Thunderbird commands the skies. Its wings bring thunder, its eyes flash lightning, and it battles great water serpents. A powerful bringer of storms & rain. 🌩️

🎨 Darkriddle1 on DeviantArt.

The snoligoster is a fearsome critter of American tall tales that dwells in the swamps of the American south, especially around Lake Okeechobee. It resembles a legless furry alligator with a back spike and a propellor tail. Victims are stored on the spike until the monster is hungry.
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In 1938, a living coelacanth was hauled from the sea off South Africa. The group had been known from fossils and was thought to have vanished around the end of the Cretaceous. Then one arrived at a fish market, proving "known only from fossils" isn't always the end. #WyrdWednesday

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Yabba-Dabba-Doo! The Flintstones premiered 30 Sept 1960, bringing dinosaurs into the modern Stone Age!

Bedrock had Dino, the Flintstones’ lovable Snorkasaurus, while the Rubbles had Hoppy, their hopping Hopparoo.

66 years later, these supermodern saurians still rock! 🪨🦴📺