ShukerNature

An AI-generated image of a blue-feathered harpy & a blue-denim biker dancing their passionate pas de deux d'amour (created by me, aka RebelBikerDude,using Magic Studio)
The paucity of ShukerNature posts this year is sad, silent testimony to my ongoing medical issues relating to my close-up eyesight (happily, my distance vision is fine), which has greatly impeded my normal reading/typing/research abilities. Hopefully...

What happens when you askAI to generate an image of a tall bipedal tailless monkey confronting agigantic octopus emerging from the sea onto the shore (Created by Dr KarlShuker using Grok)
Cryptozoology is full of examples ofcryptids that once their existence was finally confirmed officially by sciencewere shown to have been long since known to the world anyway, but had somehowbeen overlooked, veritably rendered invisible – in other words...

A coupleof photo-stills from my two AI-generated video clips of the familiar cropped versionof the notorious Ameranthropoides loysiphotograph (the centre image here) coming to life (AI photo-stills and videos createdby me using Adobe Firefly)
It's been several months since I postedhere on ShukerNature a ShukerNature Picture of the Day (click here to access the most recent one),and I have never posted a ShukerNature Video of the Day – until now, that is.Moreover, because I'm a generous kind...

Atypically-patterned male northern bushbuck in Senegal (© Lucy Keith-Diagne/Wikipedia– CC BY 4.0 licence)
Bushbucks are the smallest members of thespiral-horned African antelope group, which also include the kudus, nyalas,sitatunga, elands, and bongo. Traditionally, just a single bushbuck species hasbeen recognized, Tragelaphus scriptus,albeit with numerous...