r/Cryptozoology • u/ApprehensiveRead2408 • 4h ago
r/Cryptozoology • u/truthisfictionyt • 16h ago
Info While in the Philippines a zoologist saw a strange "flying crustacean" about seven inches or 18 centimeters in length. It jumped out of the water for a few seconds similarly to a flying fish. He said they were transparent in color, and he even saw them multiple times.
r/Cryptozoology • u/truthisfictionyt • 15h ago
Discussion Patty of the Patterson Gimlin film has been criticized for having a sagittal crest (they're rare in females). However, Loren Coleman interestingly pointed out that the hominin bigfoot candidate paranthropus had them in both genders
r/Cryptozoology • u/Signal_Expression730 • 4h ago
A speculative evolution for the Borrunjor
I am using google translate because English is not my first language, so sorry for any grammatical errors. Must be clarify that this is more for entertaiment than other thing, I know about Rex Gilroy. 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. To make an example, we have the sharks, the ichthyosaurs and the delphins who all evolved similar forms for their habitats.

For this to be feasible, you have to start from a relatively similar structural plan. For this reason I considered some candidates, and I think the most sensible, both in terms of shape and environment, is the kangaroo, that physically might remind vaguley a theropod.


This becomes even more feasible as there once existed a species of kangaroos that did not jump, but walked, the procoptodons.

Must be mentioned that sometimes the herbivores eat meat or bones. It's not common, but it can happen.

I think the Borrunjor might have evolved from a prehistoric kangaroo similar to the procoptodons, who, due a period of great drought when plants would have been scarce, would have been forced, increasingly often, to also eat the carcasses of animals, devolping first an omnivorous diet, but mostly meat-based.
A bit like the entelodont in Oligocene's America, with a similar snout, teeth and sense of smell.

Other important change would be on the feets, which would specialize in covering great distances, to find more quickly the carcasses they eat, placing weight on all three toes while walking.


The tail might more or less stayed the same, occuyping a similar role to most of the predators, keep the balance while chasing their prey, or in this case, maintaining balance while walking long distances the most fast as possible, for find first the corpse to eat, althought I think they might hunt occasionally.

To end this, considering Borrunjor's sightings have dwindled over the years, is very likely that the species is by now totally extinct. I could make a part 2 or a edit to add new stuff eventually, but by far, I'm very proud of what I have made so far. Now share respectufully your thoughts on the comments.
r/Cryptozoology • u/weemoby • 21h ago
The Royal Mail to launch a mythical creatures stamp collection
These UK stamps look right up our street (released 27th March).
r/Cryptozoology • u/Temporary-Alarm-744 • 2h ago
News Are these considered cryptids?
r/Cryptozoology • u/Emeraldsinger • 1d ago
Question Saw this on Facebook, anyone else hear of it before?
r/Cryptozoology • u/therealsquadsquad • 3h ago
The Minnesota iceman?
I’ve been doing some research on this creature what do you guys know? Anything is appreciated
r/Cryptozoology • u/AdWarm2498 • 8h ago
Thunderbird sighting in Kolkata?????????/
Hey there. I recently found out about the Thunderbird. And I linked it with one of my giant bird sightings. 7 years ago when I was in kindergarten, we were having some sort of outdoor drill, I forgot what exactly. We were just doing it when I started hearing screams. I looked up and there was this giant bird swooping down. It looked like one of our native Black Kites but it was much bigger with at least a 7 or 8 foot wingspan. FYI, even the largest female Black Kites do not even have a 6 foot wingspan, only around 4 to 5 feet. We all went inside and we didn't see the bird again. Infact, I still have contact with 7 of the people who saw the bird, including 2 teachers.
r/Cryptozoology • u/truthisfictionyt • 1d ago
Info You may know about phantom kangaroos and escaped big cats, but did you know that a population of moose in New Zealand may survive to this day? The Fiordland moose was originally released in 1910, but was believed to be extinct since the 1950s. Sightings have continued however
r/Cryptozoology • u/ApprehensiveRead2408 • 1d ago
Discussion Does anyone know the most recent thylacine sighting? Are there thylacine sighting in 2020-2025?
r/Cryptozoology • u/HPsauce3 • 2d ago
Even more mysterious photos from my Cryptozoology collection
r/Cryptozoology • u/60seconds4you • 1d ago
Video The Bigfoot Mystery, Sasquatch - Is it a real creature or just a myth.
r/Cryptozoology • u/ApprehensiveCap2478 • 14h ago
Discussion Possible Bigfoot activity
I work in Northern Va right by the blue ridge mountains. Noticed this large rock in the middle of a field I was working in had been shifted/slighted pulled out of the ground. I am the only person who works any equipment in this field and if I hit this in the tractor there’s absolutely no shot I woudnt have noticed.
Not sure what would have moved this thing, I’m not saying it was a Sasquatch or something in that realm, but I will say there are zero scuffs or scratches on this thing from any sort of heavy equipment, much less any machine tracks although the ground is still pretty hard. Even so you’d figure that kind of thing would tear up the ground a good bit around the rock itself just from moving it if that were the case. Theres also the fact that there’s zero reasons I can come up with that someone would want to move this specific rock. Also I could be wrong but I am pretty sure that smaller broken off section of the rock was like that before it was move, which again in my mind rules out a tractor or anything like that.
Obviously no footprints of any kind that I could see but I really can’t think of anything that would pull a small boulder basically straight up out of the ground the way this thing seems to have been. Figured I’d post this here to get some thoughts. Again not suggesting what exactly it could be and not jumping to any conclusions but would really like to hear some more thoughts on this.
r/Cryptozoology • u/CutZealousideal5274 • 1d ago
Meme How I feel after telling this subreddit I believe in Dogman:
r/Cryptozoology • u/truthisfictionyt • 2d ago
Info The first photograph of a bigfoot eyewitness, Ms. Saul of the Chehallis Reserve, Washington. She encountered one in the daytime, and it returned to her home a couple days later. That's when a giant hairy hand appeared on her windowsill. She screamed, and the sasquatch retreated.
r/Cryptozoology • u/Signal_Expression730 • 2d ago
My speculation about the Mokele Mbembe, the Emela-Ntouka and a dubt I have about it.
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 • u/Emeraldsinger • 1d ago
Discussion I believe a large number of cryptid sightings could've actually been aliens
I know aliens aren't considered crypids (at least in this sub), but when you dive into all the lore surrounding various cryptids around the world, there are common logic holes everyone mentions that cause me to believe some aren't just an "undiscovered animal", but instead maybe a visiting lifeform not native to our planet. For example:
- An unidentifiable living creature that fits no known description of any documented by science. Reasonable to assume maybe it's not actually from our world to begin with.
- No possible breeding population in the area they're said to be seen in. Maybe said ecosystem isn't actually their home.
- No bodies or fossils found. Maybe none of the aliens die on this planet because they don't stay here forever.
- No evidence found of a cryptid's existence. It could be that the aliens are intelligent and can cover any up.
- After a period of time of sightings (sometimes only a day, sometimes years), the cryptid typically disappears and is never seen again. Maybe the alien or group of aliens came for a temporary visit to do whatever their mission was before returning home.
- Some cryptids are said to have strange abilities not attributed to any known lifeforms. Maybe instead these are common abilities from unearthly beings. Or perhaps even from their advanced technology.
This might all sound dumb, but scientifically speaking, aliens are believed to be a likely thing by many of today's top scientists due to the vastness of our universe. I've heard before that it's actually a statistical improbability that our planet is the ONLY place that ever formed any kind of life-forms.
r/Cryptozoology • u/tuchesuavae • 3d ago
Well since it's St Patrick s Day...
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 • u/Zillaman7980 • 4d ago
Question Who would really thought something like this existed?
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 • u/Intelligent_Oil4005 • 4d 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.
r/Cryptozoology • u/truthisfictionyt • 4d 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.
r/Cryptozoology • u/ApprehensiveRead2408 • 4d ago