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Is there any cryptids that could be real?; Which cryptids could be real?
Topic Started: Feb 8 2018, 08:16 PM (4,367 Views)
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Feb 11 2018, 04:32 PM
I've become enamoured with the idea of living thylacines in New Guinea, which logically makes sense.

Problem is, the only anthropological cue comes from the "dobsegna", a creature I can't find information off outside cryptozoological sources. It at least resembles a thylacine, unlike many cryptids that are shoehorned into extinct animals, but it could very well be fabrication and at any rate mythological beings based on domestic dogs with nocturnal traits aren't uncommon.
Or it could just be a cultural memory of the thylacine, not evidence that they survived into historic times.
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Feb 14 2018, 06:41 PM
That absolutely no one else other than the small band of people mentioned in the old newspaper article ever mentioned seeing anything even remotely similar in that region or anywhere near it casts great doubt on the validity of the case.
As it turns out, the Partridge Creek Beast is not the only report of a theropod from the Canadian high north. We see something similar in a report from the Ogden Standard, which claims a band of Inuit got lost on an ice foe and were attacked by a musk-ox eating theropod. Of course this one was an even clearer newspaper hoax, because unlike the Partridge Creek Beast, this theropod comported very well with the then-popular view of the tyrannosaurus, it was apparently found by these inuits after entering a stereotypical polar "lost world", and the fact that the actual newspaper issue is very very clearly just a sensationalist eye-catcher.
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Feb 14 2018, 06:41 PM
That absolutely no one else other than the small band of people mentioned in the old newspaper article ever mentioned seeing anything even remotely similar in that region or anywhere near it casts great doubt on the validity of the case.
As it turns out, the Partridge Creek Beast is not the only report of a theropod from the Canadian high north. We see something similar in a report from the Ogden Standard, which claims a band of Inuit got lost on an ice foe and were attacked by a musk-ox eating theropod. Of course this one was an even clearer newspaper hoax, because unlike the Partridge Creek Beast, this theropod comported very well with the then-popular view of the tyrannosaurus, it was apparently found by these inuits after entering a stereotypical polar "lost world", and the fact that the actual newspaper issue is very very clearly just a sensationalist eye-catcher.
If we will resurrect dinosaurs,we could hear such news on a daily basis.
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So I have a question related to this topic. The May 1989 issue of National Grographic mentions, in its article on tepuis, that an explorer named Alexander Laime saw three “dinosaur-like lizards” sunbathing on a tepui in 1955. They were each about three feet long, had long necks, and scaly flippers instead of legs. What could they have actually been?
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The description sounds like small plesiosaurs, though a long necked turtle could also fit the description.
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Definitely not plesiosaurs. Possibly turtle, an unknown species of lizard or otter. Definitely worth searching.
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I must admit that I love these things of associating biblical things with cryptis, like behemoth, leviatham, anteluvian people, and others
I find this perspective very interesting.
(though incredibly silly)
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