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Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, [1] particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe.
Lake monster Lake Manitoba, Canada Megalodon (surviving populations) [27] [28] [29] Otodus megalodon [a] Giant prehistoric shark Oceans Mokele-mbembe [30] Dinosaur (lake, river and/or swamp monster) Republic of the Congo: Morgawr [31] Sea serpent Falmouth Bay: Ogopogo [13] N'ha•a•itk, Naitaka Lake monster Lake Okanagan, Canada Sea serpents [32]
Mokele-mbembe is one of six cryptids sought by comedian and journalist Dom Joly in his travel book Scary Monsters and Super Creeps. Korean American artist David Choe claimed on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that as a young man he travelled to the Congo in search of Mokele-mbembe after reading about it in a magazine while he was living ...
Bahamut – Whale monster whose body supports the earth. Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail
Creatures with such feet, which confuse those trying to track it, are found in folklore around the world. [ 1 ] In the latter half of the 20th century, some cryptozoologists speculated that the mapinguari might be an unknown primate, akin to Bigfoot .
The following is a list of lists of legendary creatures, beings and entities from the folklore record. Entries consist of legendary and unique creatures , not of particularly unique individuals of a commonly known species.
An interpretation of the Mongolian death worm by Belgian painter Pieter Dirkx. A Tartar sand boa, possible inspiration for the legend. The Mongolian death worm (Mongolian: олгой-хорхой, olgoi-khorkhoi, "large intestine-worm") is a creature alleged to exist in the Gobi Desert.
Draco: Linnaeus wrote that it has a "snakelike body, two feet, two wings, like a bat, which is a winged lizard or a ray artificially shaped as a monster and dried." [ 6 ] See also Jenny Haniver . Automa Mortis Linnaeus wrote "Death-watch: It produces the sound of a very small clock in walls, is named Pediculus pulsatorius , which perforates ...