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What cryptids might be real?

Travis

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There is so much talk of Bigfoot. But I have yet to see any really good evidence that a Bigfoot could be real.

But what about other cryptids?

Which, of them, might actually pan out to be real?

Abominable snowman?
Yowwie?
Chupacabra?
The Cat Man of 4th Street?
Thunderbirds?
Bronies?
 
I was going to say Australian drop bears. But those are not cryptids.THEY ARE REAL!!! :eek:
 
There is reputed to be a death worm thingy in Mongolia which may one day turn out to be a simple snake.

Mike
 
So would claims of an extant thylacine not be cryptid-ic?

Mike
 
MikeG said:
So would claims of an extant thylacine not be cryptid-ic?

Mike
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Hmmm. Does a creature, known to have existed but which becomes extinct, qualify as a cryptid if people then claim to still see it?

And what if it is then actually rediscovered and its existence confirmed?

This happened with a fish called a Coelocanth. They were once known only from the fossil record; believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous, until a fisherman caught one off the east coast of South Africa in 1938.
 
Travis said:
But what about other cryptids?

Which, of them, might actually pan out to be real?
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You could apply that to the Giant Squid. For hundred of years, sailors have reported sightings of Giant Squid, but science refused to accept them as true.

Now, Giant Squid have panned out to be real.
 
According to the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology, cryptids would be "animals of unexpected form or size, or unexpected occurrence in time or space."
 
Well, Chupacabra's been pretty well debunked, hasn't it? Carcasses and sightings have turned out to be coyotes and similar animals with mange. One investigator noted the similarity of the first description of Chupacabra to the alien in the film Species. He then talked to the woman who made the first report and she admitted that, yes, she'd watched Species when it had been on telly the previous week and that she could well have become confused because of it.

Given that evidence, I'd say that the chances of El Chupacabra being real are very slim.

Incidentally, is it just me or when you hear the phrase "El Chupacabra", does anyone else think of this:

 
Call me a close-minded radical denialist, but I would say zero.

The candidates presented so far (*) never had their equivalent of BFRO or BFF, such as a Giant Squid Research Organization (GSRO) or the Coelacanthus Forums (CoF) and their fauna... These animals were described, their specimens were collected by biologists and not by cryptozoologists. Actually cryptozoologists never found anything, despite quite often trying to bask in or use real biologists' works to vindicate their beliefs or bring legitimacy to their claims. even if you bring out-of-place-animals in to the fray, compare the quality of evidence backing sixgill sharks at Seattle with big cats in England... Now, that's "habituation", not the Fox bigfoot tall tales...

Crackpotzoology, I mean cryptozoology is not about real animals; its about fantasy. Living dinosaurs, giant apes at your backyard

(*) ETA: as cryptids shown later to be real.
 
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Travis said:
There is so much talk of Bigfoot. But I have yet to see any really good evidence that a Bigfoot could be real.

But what about other cryptids?

Which, of them, might actually pan out to be real?

Abominable snowman?
Yowwie?
Chupacabra?
The Cat Man of 4th Street?
Thunderbirds?
Bronies?
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Thunderbirds were real. I always wanted to be Scott.
 
Oh, I should point out that Bronies are real.

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philkensebben said:
Isnt a cryptid supposedly an animal not yet recorded by science? Or am I horribly wrong?
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Cryptids also usually include animals believed to be extinct by science, but claimed by cryptozoologists to still exist. Thylacines or ivory-billed woodpeckers would be counted as cryptids that way.

I'm not sure if coelocanths would count. While it's true that they were believed to be long-extinct until extant specimens were found, as far as I know there was no community of believers claiming to have seen them before proof was found. Thylacines and ivory-billed woodpeckers on the other hand do have people claiming to have seen them in recent times.
 
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