What do people think about the legend of Mokele-Mbembe from Africa, just a misidentified creature or something prehistoric? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe [poll type=multiple results=always min

Something something…extraordinary claims…something something…extraordinary evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

Yeah, but it’s only a suggestion.

In early to mid 20th century, the entity would become a point of focus among adherents of the pseudoscience of cryptozoology , and young Earth creationism , resulting in numerous expeditions led by cryptozoologists and funded by young Earth creationists and other groups with the objective to find evi…

I wouldn’t go so far as to say none are real with confidence, but i suppose it depends on what you consider real vs not. Like say, a “ghost cat” that isn’t a literal ghost, but is an albino or leucistic individual which is still plenty unusual and special. And hey, we still discover new species all …

I don’t think giant squids were ever thought to be a myth? There are myths about implausibly large giant squids, i.e. the Kraken, but that’s not the same thing.

Fun fiction: Seanan Mcguire sci-fi: A world with lots of encryptids and an extended family of “scientists” who study them. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=seanan+mcguire+incryptid+series&crid=2HAWPCB8OT5PK&sprefix=Seanan%2Caps%2C244&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_4_6 An amazingly inventive, engaging, and help…

I’d say that is a meme. In popular culture, a meme is a picture with a punch line or two. The idea of that mystical creature existing on earth is an earlier type of memetic information. Now we know it can’t possibly be true. That is not unique to africa. There is Loch Ness monster, Kraken, chinese d…

If those crazy colonialist explorers want a Moonshine Myth that country called Africa will give them one? Giant squid - another one washed up this week. About palaeontology in Africa (the hard science not the spun memes) https://theconversation.com/ancient-plant-eating-cousins-from-brazil-and-sou…

The legend of the kraken (and other sea monsters too) are believed to have originated from sightings of the giant squid. You have to remember that they’re incredibly rarely seen even today, and until they were properly documented the average person would find the concept of a squid that large ridicu…

Mokele-Mbembe Truth or Fiction?

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susanhewitt August 20, 2022, 1:55am 24

I said probably are not real, not definitely.

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