I just want conversation on this topic

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-cryptids-do-you-believe-are-most-likely-to-exist/46888 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-if-cryptids-are-just-naturalists/55603 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/cryptid-sightings-on-inat/16652

Two of those are locked, @lj_l .

I love cryptids! I sure don’t believe in them, but they’re fun to think about. If you want my opinion, Mothman is just a large moth, like this one that attacked me one late summer night. It was close to midnight, and I was in a forest, the only light being my flashlight, which was gradually getting …

I think cryptid sightings are some mix of hoaxes, legends, known species observed under poor observing conditions, abnormal individuals of known species (bears with injured front legs can learn to walk on their back legs sasquach style, for example) and sometimes unknown species

There have actually been many “cryptids” throughout history that have been proven to be actual animals. Probably the most famous is the giant squid (aka, the Kraken). It wasn’t until the 1900s, I believe, that people realised that they were not really sea monsters. The okapi was also once consider…

@ProtogenmodelTGg09 are you an iNaturalist user? I don’t see your username or email address in the iNaturalist database.

Which whales? Also what about the Coelacanth

[image] insectobserver123: Which whales? Some have suggested that Leviathan, in the Hebrew Scriptures, is a distorted description of a baleen whale. One of the most interesting cryptid stories to my mind is Henry Hudson’s sighting of a mermaid. Nowadays, mermaids are usually explained away a…

The description of breasts and hair sound very unlike any known sea creature, to the point that I have to assume it was either made up or they did not see it clearly and their brains filled in the blanks as a woman

[image] insectobserver123: Which whales? Also what about the Coelacanth I beleive that some beaked whales have been mistaken for monsters in the past. Also, I don’t know if the coelacanth really counts as a cryptid. It was already described by scientists by its fossils before its rediscovery…

Anyone want to talk about cryptids?

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