Extraordinary Animals Revisited

Extraordinary Animals Revisited brings together cryptozoological reports, zoological anomalies and animal traditions from different periods and regions. Karl P. N. Shuker revisits the New Guinea singing dog, devil-birds, giant rodents, anomalous rhinoceroses and the alleged de Loys’ ape, alongside accounts of creatures such as flying fish, globsters and the mysterious Tizzie-Wizzie. The emphasis is on reported evidence, historical description and the continuing uncertainty surrounding animals that have never been formally identified.

This expanded edition also considers animals once thought extinct, unusual traits in recognised species and stories shaped by mythology or mistaken observation. Victorian engravings and other vintage illustrations reinforce its interest in the 19th-century tradition of romantic natural history, while the wide subject range moves between documented zoology and disputed mystery animals.