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| Is there any cryptids that could be real?; Which cryptids could be real? | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 8 2018, 08:16 PM (4,368 Views) | |
| CeratosaurusKing | Feb 8 2018, 08:16 PM Post #1 |
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So a lot of the people on this forum agree that most cryptids are fake and they don't exist but is there any cryptids out there that you guys think could have a chance of being real? |
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| Yiqi15 | Feb 8 2018, 08:20 PM Post #2 |
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I'd say creatures like otherwise normal whales with extra fins do have the chance of evolving in this world. |
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| Rodlox | Feb 8 2018, 11:26 PM Post #3 |
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that's just the re-emergence of atrophied limbs, yes? something like that, sure, i'd believe it. maybe another species of Okapi as well - not all of the initially-discovered skins match the now-known species, after all. |
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| Finncredibad | Feb 9 2018, 10:25 AM Post #4 |
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Thylacines might still be real. Emphasis on might |
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| Carlos | Feb 9 2018, 10:35 AM Post #5 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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I would lend credence to maybe those sightings in New Guinea/northern Australia, but Tasmania's sightings are almost invariably dogs. |
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| ZoologicalBotanist | Feb 9 2018, 10:45 AM Post #6 |
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Mixotrophic Sea Slug
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Perhaps the loch-ness monster? Not as a plesiosaur, but as a large eel or fish? |
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| Archeoraptor | Feb 9 2018, 11:41 AM Post #7 |
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"A living paradox"
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again that a cryptic is real doesn´t mean is a new species maybe just a miss identification or a weird mutant, you know there are animals born with multiple heads and die short after so that kidn of stuff |
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| Scrublord | Feb 9 2018, 11:52 AM Post #8 |
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If any "classic" cryptid were to turn out to be real, my money would be on the Orang-Pendek. Its relatively small size (supposedly about four feet tall), location in Sumatra (which already has native apes, and could easily hide one more) and the fact that its existence has been taken seriously by at least a few qualified scientists all lend credence to the possibility that it could be real. |
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| LλmbdaExplosion | Feb 9 2018, 12:25 PM Post #9 |
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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They are real .Right here,me. |
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| Tartarus | Feb 9 2018, 07:40 PM Post #10 |
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Prime Specimen
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I'm probably gonna get a lot of shit for this, but I actually support cryptozoology. Now, if anyone wishes to assume this is due to some ignorance of biology or some axe to grind against "mainstream science", I'm gonna have to disappoint you. I have a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Zoology and Ecology, and have read up on heaps of info on animals since I was a kid. And I have no axes to grind, I merely think that certain "unorthodox" topics actually have more for them that what is often assumed and that self-proclaimed "skeptics" are often not quite as rational or honest in their arguments as they like to claim. I actually reject the whole notion that the world can be neatly divided into "rational skeptics" and "crazy believers". There are both rational and irrational people on both "sides", and the very notion there even are "sides" is dubious considering neither "side" are completely homogeneous groups where everyone agrees with each other on everything and always disagrees with everyone on the other "side". I support cryptozoology because I have seen a lot of sober well-argued points in its favour plus evidence for certain cryptids that cannot just be assumed to be hoaxes without even bothering to look into first. Also, there are still large areas of unexplored wilderness in the world, even in these days when much has sadly been destroyed by human activity, and having been in wilderness myself on a number of occasions I know how elusive many animals can be. And new species are discovered all the time so I don't really see anything "crazy" in entertaining the notion of animals that still remain undiscovered. Of course, not all cryptids are as plausible (and the vast majority of cryptozoologists admit this) but to me it still seems far more likely that there still are undiscovered species than that we have discovered practically everything worth discovering. Finally, while there do exist crackpots and ridiculous ideas in the world that does not mean every non-mainstream idea is automatically ridiculous nor that everyone with the audacity to entertain said ideas is a crackpot. But anyway as to the question of cryptids I'd consider most likely that is a bit of a tricky one to give an absolute answer to. Nevertheless, here are a few examples of some cryptids I think to be quite likely: Surviving thylacines- since the official extinction date of 1936 there have been literally thousands of sightings of living thylacines. And at least some of the sightings have been by zoologists and experienced park rangers, which makes it kinda hard to justify either the "they're all crazy" or "they're all just seeing dogs" views. Surviving pink-headed ducks- a type of duck from India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Presumed extinct in the 1950s but like with the thylacine there have been numerous sightings since then. That a not particularly large bird could be hidden in vast swamplands for decades after its official extinction does not really seem so far-fetched to me, though many cryptozoology skeptics would probably harshly disagree with me on that. The orang-pendek- Possibly an undiscovered species of orangutan that has evolved a less arboreal lifestyle than its known cousins. The jungles of Sumatra are vast and I don't have that much trouble in the notion that they could be hiding an unknown orangutan species. Giant anacondas- Anacondas reported as growing as large as 15 m or more. Either an unknown extra large variant of the known species or a separate species. Known anacondas are already mostly aquatic, so there is precedence for an anaconda to be able to evolve to such enormous sizes thanks to water helping to support all that mass. And the largest known snake, the long extinct Titanoboa, was at least as big as these reported giant anacondas, if not even slightly bigger, so any "snakes can't get that big" argument just won't work. |
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| lamna | Feb 9 2018, 08:03 PM Post #11 |
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Loch Ness is an awful place to go looking for bizarre endemics, be they plesiosaurs, seals or eels. You have to remember, the entirety of Scotland was buried under glaciers until very recently. So recently, that any inhabitants of Loch Ness got their after modern humans first colonised Britain. The Loch, like many other similar lacks, is very cold and acidic. Not much life in their at all. |
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| Carlos | Feb 9 2018, 08:32 PM Post #12 |
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Adveho in me Lucifero
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Appeal to authority, and most have conceded they're likely dogs or foxes anyways. Tasmania is hardly a place where megafauna can hide successfully. |
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| Scrublord | Feb 9 2018, 11:28 PM Post #13 |
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Father Pellegrini
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Do recently extinct animals that people still report seeing from time to time really deserve to be called cryptids? I tend to reserve that term for cases where the existence of the species itself, at any time, is in question. |
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| LλmbdaExplosion | Feb 10 2018, 07:27 AM Post #14 |
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Vieja Argentea the oscar cichlid
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That monster could be a plesiosaur-like turtle that evolved to live in the same way.Turtles are less active than plesiosaurs,and that could explain the lack of many apparences.Turtles could hibernate for months before going to the surface to take breath,only to return during the night. |
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| lamna | Feb 10 2018, 08:44 AM Post #15 |
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Britain only has six native reptiles. Britain is a borderland, comparatively few animals and plants managed to colonise these island in the brief interval between the ice sheets receding and the land that connects Britain to mainland Europe disappearing beneath the sea. Loch Ness is a huge body of water, but it's a Loch, ground out by glaciers. Its steep sides don't give plant life many places to grow. Combine that with it being very cold and acidic water, and their is very little plant life, very little insect life, very few fish. It's a harsh, hard place to live. If, by some miracle, their was some giant turtle, or strange seal or plesiosaur living in the Loch, it should have relatives all over the rest of Britain and Europe. We should have a fossil record, related species. But we have nothing. |
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