In July 1992, global news organizations introduced everyone to the startling discovery of a so-called lost world of animals living ...
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Founded in 1989 by writer James A. Clark, marine biologist Paul LeBlond, and television documentarian John Kirk, the British Columbia ...
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For years, a rumor has circulated that John Chambers, famed Academy Award-winning Hollywood special effects man, manufactured the suit allegedly ...
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The single most notable cryptozoological phenomenon of the past decade is undoubtedly the chupacabras (“Goatsucker”) of Hispanic America. The legend ...
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A few coelacanths are displayed in natural history museums around the world, like this one in Chicago’s Field Museum. (Loren ...
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“Cryptid” is a relatively new word used among professionals and laypeople to denote an animal of interest to cryptozoology. John ...
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In 1904 zoologists were surprised at the discovery of the giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni), only three years after the ...
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Reports from around the globe describe what appear to be enormous monkeys. Asians give the name for the mountain range ...
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The phrase Goblin Universe" is often applied to the earth's supernatural and otherwise esoteric residents. Long ago classification systems were ...
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The phrase “Goblin Universe” is often applied to the earth’s supernatural and otherwise esoteric residents. Long ago classification systems were ...
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GRIMM, JACK (1925-1998) Jack Grimm, who came to be known through media stories about his “quixotic quests” to find Bigfoot, ...
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HALL, DENNIS JAY (1956-) Dennis Jay Hall was born in Middlebury, Vermont. In 1973, he was elected president of the ...
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Hominology is an important subcategory of cryptozoology that deserves a moment of explanation. Russian researcher Dmitri Bayanov coined the word ...
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To the considerable surprise of Western scientists at least, a second population of coelacanths has been discovered off the coast ...
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Founded in January 1982 at a gathering held at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution and ...
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Born in France, Marie-Jeanne Koffmann spent most of her life in the U.S.S.R., as a surgeon at Moscow hospitals and ...
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The Lawndale, Illinois, incident is among the most important avian cryptozoological events ever to have been investigated. It is a ...
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Scientists say that dinosaurs became extinct millions of years before humans appeared on Earth, but some people claim that these ...
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The term Loch Ness monsters refers to mysterious beasts that have been reported dozens of times in a Scottish lake ...
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Mokele-mbembe is said to be a dinosaur, of a species known as the sauropod, still living in the African jungle ...
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In most cases, when someone sights a mysterious beast, upon closer examination it turns out to be an ordinary animal ...
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OLGOI-KHORKHOI A mysterious, deadly creature called Olgoi-Khorkhoi, also known as the Mongolian death worm, reportedly lives in the Gobi Desert ...
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