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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Cryptids I can enjoy, a few have actually turned out to be real.

The problem I have with Bigfoot/Sasquatch is that by now you'd think at least one would have turned up in the fossil record at this point if there's still an active breeding population. A hunter or a trapper would have caught one by now, or at the very least we'd have skeletal remains of one.

This isn't like that dwarf branch of mankind they recently found in a cave that went extinct something like 20k years ago, this is supposedly an active, living creature in the forest in modern times. We're not talking about a microorganism, or an insect the size of a thumbtack, this is a 6 to 8 foot tall hominid we're looking for. Skull half the size of a human torso.

The thing is if it's a really small population, you probably aren't going to find much of a record. The only reason we have fossils for other creatures is because there was a very large population and some of them wound up stumbled into material which preserved their remains. An actual body can be dismembered pretty quickly by forest life, which is why we don't stumble on intact deer bodies or skeletons all the time.

Revelation34 posted...

Those aren't cryptids. A cryptid is something like bigfoot that are legendary/mythical. They also never even proved that the sea monsters were giant squids even though they are most likely.

iirc, it's not that giant squid were believed to be sea monsters, but that the giant squid was itself a cryptid at one point because its existence was in question
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