![]() ![]() Though earlier interested in zoological oddities, he credits a 1948 Saturday Evening Post article, "There Could be Dinosaurs" by Ivan T. He was influenced by Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle's book The Lost World (1912). Heuvelmans' books made reference to literary sources. During World War II he had escaped from a Nazi prison camp and later worked as a jazz singer in Paris. ![]() ![]() In 1939, his doctoral dissertation concerned the teeth of the aardvark. Heuvelmans was a pupil of Serge Frechkop, a proponent of the Theory of Initial Bipedalism. Heuvelmans was born on 10 October 1916 in Le Havre, France, and raised in Belgium and earned a doctorate in zoology from the Free University of Brussels (now split into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel). His 1958 book On the Track of Unknown Animals (originally published in French in 1955 as Sur la Piste des Bêtes Ignorées) is often regarded as one of the most influential cryptozoology texts. Sanderson, as a founding figure in the pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology. PhD zoology ( Free University of Brussels)īernard Heuvelmans (10 October 1916 – 22 August 2001) was a Belgian- French scientist, explorer, researcher, and writer probably best known, along with Scottish-American biologist Ivan T. ![]()
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