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What r/Cryptozoology is talking about this week

r/Cryptozoology has 346,474 members and 6 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 4.3 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

346,474members
6posts in the last 24 hours, newest 13 h ago
4.3comments an hour right now, newest 5 h ago
387points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/Cryptozoology this week

cryptid18bigfoot14monster12film11evidence9patterson9gimlin9cryptids9real8animal7creature7cryptoctober7

Top threads this week

  1. What do you think the Xiphis was? A bizarre carnivorous mammal that went extinct? A relic from a fantasy story brought to life by art? Or just a mishappen animal we already know like a hippo?
    387 points106 comments2 d ago
  2. Since I got so much love (and criticism😅) for my last post, heres more cryptid evidence I have from the Indian Subcontinent

    Credit goes to all original owners 1. Alleged photograph of an Andaman Wood Owl, a cryptid or undescribed owl species reported from the Andaman Islands 2. Tiger photographed at Sattal. Sattal is...

    352 points14 comments6 d ago
  3. Halloween Costume :)
    228 points7 comments5 d ago
  4. A mysterious creature encountered by Chilean fishermen has revived an ancient legend about a terrifying being said to inhabit local waters

    Two fishermen in Chile captured a strange creature lurking beneath the surface of an unnamed river. Its unusual shape has attracted attention online, with viewers comparing the mysterious animal...

    187 points51 comments4 d ago
  5. Does it make more logical sense for the Mokele-mbembe to be a descendant of a prehistoric Tortoise Rather than being a surviving dinosaur ?

    Like think about it......there's have been evidence of giant tortoises and turtles throughout prehistory while dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago leaving no descendants (except for...

    152 points51 comments7 d ago
  6. Some very interesting footage was posted to an Australian animal Facebook group yesterday. Many are saying this could be a credible Thylacine sighting, others are saying they’re just mangy, oversized foxes. What do you all think?
    116 points51 comments5 d ago
  7. Wish Meldrum was still here

    The depressing part of capturing Bigfoot is how it just shatters Meldrum’s world and undermines his claimed expertise. The ending where they show his reaction to the film you can see the look of...

    70 points91 comments6 d ago
  8. What are your arguments that supposedly prove that certain dinosaurs were not extinct in the event "K—PG" or "meteor fall"?

    I personally think it's impossible that any animal with more than 50kg has managed to survive with a sustainable population to be able to reach today's we have.

    57 points60 comments3 d ago
  9. I-i swear *sobs* ,i swear the Ahuízotl is real.

    Come on, guys—it’s just a joke, right? The Ahuízotl can’t just be an aquatic opossum, can it? H-he introduced me to my wife.

    57 points8 comments6 d ago
  10. As a reminder of how science actually approaches "We discovered something cool and unexpected":

    Here's a British university going "Whoa, guys, this supposedly extinct species of super-cranes is actually the same European cranes of today, just larger-scaled back then." There was no elaborate...

    55 points26 comments7 d ago

Newest posts

  1. The Cynocephali: The Forgotten Race of Dog-Headed Humanoids
    0 points16 comments13 h ago
  2. Does anyone remember the Montauk Monster?
    0 points7 comments13 h ago
  3. Does anyone still have hope the 1991 igopogo video may be released? (I mean if the Bigfoot rehearsal was found then maybe just maybe this can found as well)
    32 points0 comments13 h ago
  4. Ladies and gentlemen...
    24 points3 comments17 h ago
  5. What is the earliest record of the concept of a cryptid?
    14 points16 comments20 h ago
  6. Bernard Heuvelmans, Pity, and the Dictators of Science
    5 points4 comments24 h ago
  7. What do you think the Xiphis was? A bizarre carnivorous mammal that went extinct? A relic from a fantasy story brought to life by art? Or just a mishappen animal we already know like a hippo?
    387 points106 comments2 d ago
  8. I have a question About marahute from the rescuers down under
    4 points2 comments2 d ago
  9. You Can Squatch Everything
    1 points2 comments2 d ago
  10. Mysterious Predator on the Border? The Valley of Juárez Creature
    10 points4 comments2 d ago
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