Anyone remember “Grizzly?” This movie from 1976 was one of the many nature strikes back flicks that were spawned from “Jaws”. They used to play this one on ABC quite a bit as movie of the week when I was a kid in the...
I will be speaking Saturday in Jefferson, TX at Cryptopalooza, a very unique mysterious wildlife inspired event. My talk with be on mystery cats in Texas including cougars in East Texas, “black panthers” as well as jaguars. If you like mystery cats, come by....
From 2004… Here’s my TF&G Column for Oct. 2004. I’m a huge fan of the Creature from the Black Lagoon and in fact have a tattoo of the “Gill Man” as a tribute to Ben Chapman, a man I...
Back in 1995, I had a chance to photograph a huge western diamondback out at the media day for the Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater. This wasn’t part of the event but instead one of the snake handler’s personal snakes. One day I will blog...
A couple of years ago I got to collect flounder for breeding research at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. While out collecting we came across this monster flounder (which we caught and served as broodstock) and it was somewhere...
Does anyone remember Sea Arama? It was the awesome marine park at Galveston that was open from the 1950s-80s. We would go every summer and it had a tremendous impact on my interesting wildlife. My mom found this photo in her archives. That...