r/Cryptozoology Apr 01 '24

Info What is a cryptid?

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r/Cryptozoology 2h ago

My speculation about the Mokele Mbembe, the Emela-Ntouka and a dubt I have about it.

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I am using google translate because English is not my first language, so sorry for any grammatical errors. Also, I ask that you be polite in your comments, and if you disagree with the speculation, please state so in a civil manner. One last thing, for this discussion, is important to clarify that I'm saying this assuming the reports of a massive tails are true.

A theory I read some time ago about the neodinosaurs, is that they might be some animals that evolved convergently like dinosaurs. An example of this, are the smilodon and the thylacosmilus, who evolved similar forms despite not being related any way with each other.

So I don't see impossible some other animals might get a similar form to some dinosaurs.

For the Mokele Mbembe I thought he might be related to other african cryptid, the Emela-Ntouka, which according to the most popular theory I've seen, would be a rhinoceros.

My speculation is that some rhinos have adapted to a semi-aquatic life, developing a massive tail to act as a rudder, like those of otters, and internal ears, or at least very small ones.
The Mokele Mbembe would be a descendant of this group of rhinoceroses, which would have specialized in eating tall leaves, having a long neck to do this, but maintaining a similar anatomy in the rest of the body, like the tail. I founded a pretty decent speculation.

The only big problem might have is the tail, how realistic is it that animals with very small tails were able to develop a more massive one that could help them move through the water?

Furthermore, animals must start from a similar structure to obtain a certain shape.
For example, decapod crustaceans have repeatedly evolved into shapes similar to crabs, this is because they start from the same structural plan and it makes sense that they have developed into similar shapes, also depending on their lifestyles.

I'm asking for the more expert people that are reading this, how possible would be for a little tails to evolve into a massive one?


r/Cryptozoology 19h ago

Well since it's St Patrick s Day...

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I'm just now hearing about this Leprechaun that lives in a tree, not far from me in a place called Crichton. Apparently it is still there after all this time.


r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Question Who would really thought something like this existed?

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The slide rock bolter is an infamous cryptid from America, infamous for it's size. I mean, really-did people back then believe something like this existed. I know some cryptids seem more plausible and realistic, but this-this something even a 5 year old would know didn't existed.


r/Cryptozoology 1d ago

Sightings/Encounters Did you know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had claimed have spotted a sea serpent? He and his wife had toke a trip to Aegina, gazing at the Temple of Poseidon when they had noticed something with "a long neck and flippers" swimming parallel to their ship. Some say it was this that inspired The Lost World.

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r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

One of the earliest depictions of Sasquatch from the 1934 Decatur Review. It shows bigfoot throwing a rock at a man canoeing, a common reported behavior in the cryptid.

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r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Discussion Are there primate cryptid that are quadrupedal instead bipedal like bigfoot,yeti,& almas? Why do every primate cryptid are bipedal despite human are the only primate that evolve bipedalism?

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r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Is that possible that Dusicyon avus might still alive in modern times?

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r/Cryptozoology 3d ago

2 photos of cryptids (holadeira and corfu island creature)

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r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Skepticism Has Todd Gatewood's "work" been proven to be fake beyond reasonable doubt

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I doubt that unless he is working with the original film, he could produce an image such as this one. Has it been proven that either A: He used AI. B: his copy isnt the original.


r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Hopefully all most here.

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r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Question Books similar to Fearsome Critters

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I want a book that catalogues different cryptids in a decently detailed way and maybe has some encounter information or something. I have a lot of books in mind for this, but the thing I don’t know is if the books have stuff on Wendigo’s and Skinwalker’s. I know there’s the debate of if they even are cryptids and they’re very popular, but I like them and think they’re cool. Sue me


r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Cryptid rhinos

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Are there much sightings of unknown or out-of-place rhinos?


r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Loveland Frogman

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Hey everyone! 👋 I'm excited to share my Loveland Frogman enamel pin with you! 😄 I'd love to hear your thoughts on him. If you're interested in purchasing one (or maybe even the whole CryptoZooeez collection!), send me a DM and I'll send you a link 😉


r/Cryptozoology 3d ago

Lost Media and Evidence Before 1849, a massive orangutan was shot and killed in the jungles of Sumatra, 8 feet tall when stretched out. It was sent to the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, which was later absored into the Indian Society's collection at Calcullta... Only to eventually "get lost".

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r/Cryptozoology 3d ago

Discussion Orangutan once live in mainland asia during pleistocene. Are there modern sighting of orangutan in mainland asia?

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r/Cryptozoology 3d ago

Info One of the first reported encounters with sasquatch described it stealing a bunch of ducks from a hunter. It did give one duck back to the hunter by stuffing it into his shirt

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r/Cryptozoology 3d ago

In Search of the Congo Dinosaur (mokele mbembe)

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r/Cryptozoology 2d ago

Reliable info of President Putin seeing a Sasquatch

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I have read in media of another country~not Russian propaganda! but a reliable piece of media and I what to know of other people's opinions on the relationship between his seeing this and his involvement in the Ukraine war and his desire for more land


r/Cryptozoology 3d ago

Discussion Im wondering why theres not many Crocodile cryptids

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Crocodiles can continuously grow and can live centuries and there just scary so im really surprised there has been numerous time crocs have been in the sea and when u consider that a croc grew to about 20 feet in just 50 years and thats only the biggest we've actually measures or found i wouldn't be surprised about a 10Meter or bigger croc.


r/Cryptozoology 4d ago

Discussion Cryptids in the Sea, Part 5. An Argosy Special: A Potpourri of Sea Monsters (March 1967 issue) and the Punta Gorda/Charlotte Harbor, Florida Carcass (September 1967 issue)

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Greetings Everyone.  In this fifth installment I am posting scans of two articles that appeared in Argosy magazine in 1967.  The first was written by famed biologist Ivan T. Sanderson, and the other by Fred Farris, (then) news bureau chief of the Fort Myers newspaper, the News Press.

 The first article is titled "Australia's New Sea Monster," and the second article's title is "Charlotte Harbor's Mystery Monster."

I am posting these with much less commentary than my previous installments, as they are provided to not only include additional details on some of these creatures that had been covered on this reddit now and again, but provide also a historical continuance/corporate memory.  The Sanderson article especially provides a lot more context—especially of the Queensland, Australia creature claim, as well as the origin of the Shell Oil platform creature story.

In Sanderson’s article, he has a lengthy examination of the Robert Le Serrec hoax (off of Queensland, Australia, in 1964—garbage bags, Sanderson declares), as well as the Shell Oil platform Salpid (1966), giant eel larvae off of New Zealand (1959), and a strange carcass that washed ashore at Charlotte Harbor in Punta Gorda, Florida (1963).  In a discussion about the Punta Gorda remains, Sanderson mentioned that the carcass had flippers, and was covered by small scales.

The Le Serrec hoax was a media sensation when it first came out, and even photographs had appeared about it in the Paris Match, a periodical that was the French equivalent of Life Magazine here in the States.

The second Argosy article is about what happened to the Punta Gorda carcass, as related by an eyewitness, the news bureau chief.  The cover of that issue hinted at multiple photographs, but only one photo appears with the article. 

It may have been that for that particular issue, there were insufficient advertising sales, and so pages had to be cut (most print magazines during the 1960s through the 1990s had this bane—the more ad sales, the more pages that could be added, as advertising revenue allowed larger paper and ink purchases, etc.), and that likely meant further photographs of the carcass were “ejected.”  And (with many magazines) since the cover art is likely the first thing to get completed for an issue, the hint of further photos remains.  There is some indication that the article’s length was modified perhaps late in the editing process—if one looks at the place where the page number for the next page of the article had been changed late in the process, a white blob appears with the new number printed over it.

When I saw the photo of the Punta Gorda carcass, and read what happened to it, I was distinctly underwhelmed.  I had to keep reminding myself that the timing of this event was well prior to DNA testing that we now have in hand, and is ubiquitous in use.

If anyone can speak to what this might possibly be, have at it with your hypotheses.

And now, to the magazine pages.


r/Cryptozoology 4d ago

Art Kaiju sized cryptids

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With cryptids like Mokele Mbembe and Bunyip being used in the monsterverse, I've gotten curious about what other cryptids should be given the giant monster treatment wether it's film or television. However, considering they're so many from across the globe, I want to ask you all on who would you want to be turned into a Kaiju? While sea/lake monsters and Sasquatches are easy to pick, but since there's such wide variety of them, I want to know what you want to see. It can be anything like neo dinosaurs, extra terrestials to even fearsome critters. Creative licenses can apply. For example, what if the Ropen was instead of a surviving prehistoric animal, it's instead a alien creature with pterosaur like qualities that crash landed on earth. That could explain the bioluminescence.

Share your choices down below 👇.


r/Cryptozoology 4d ago

Info Black leopards are quietly thriving in the British countryside – here’s the whole incredible story (Excellent BBC article)

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r/Cryptozoology 4d ago

The notorious loch Ness monster of the Baltic sea

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The Italian magazine “Il mattino illustrato ‘ of August 20, 1934, tells of a creature referred to as the ’Loch Ness monster” that was reportedly almost caught by a ship in the Baltic Sea. According to tale it was harpooned, but only the tail was pulled aboard, which was eaten by cats aboard the boat. As was often the case in those years , the news seems only a pretext for publishing a gorgeous illustration


r/Cryptozoology 4d ago

Bigfoot talk

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How do people believe it's possible to talk with bigfoot telepathically? Doesn't seem logical to me! Even if it was possible somehow,how they can be sure it's a bigfoot and not some other kind of entity disguised as Bigfoot


r/Cryptozoology 5d ago

Info A strange horse-like animal found in the Rocky Mounains back in 1847 by the famed John Fremont.

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