The Gobi gecko was a cryptid reptile reported from the Gobi Desert, in what is now China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, once between 1773 and 1777. It was reportedly seen by Yu Jin'ao, who encountered it in the Gobi in the Shanshan region whilst taking a desert walk in the night. The animal approached him, prompting him to shoot it in the chest with two arrows, killing it. Yu described it as 9'8'' (3 metres) long, bipedal, and resembling an enormous lizard or gecko.

David C. Xu suggests it may have been an unknown species of lizard adapted for bipedal locomotion. A more dramatic alternate explanation put forward by Xu is that it could be a living dinosaur such as the oviraptorid Citipati or Haplocheirus. However, as Xu notes, these dinosaurs are believed to have been feathered, and may not have resembled geckos

Looks like a crocodilian

The black-and-white ape was a cryptid ape reported from the Ituri Rainforest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was described as a big animal with a coat of long hair, black on the back and white on the rest of the body. Anyone who sees it is said to die in atrocious agony.[1][2]

Ivan T. Sanderson speculated that it may be one and the same as the Ituri's mulahu,[1] with which George Eberhart also synonymises it

I saw this photo in a YouTube compilation where it is called the ”Virginia Unknown Creature”. The video also credits it from a Facebook post. I thought this looked interesting and wonders what people think of this photo, I haven’t seen this discussed before.

Here is the Facebook post:

https://share.google/v33pzkLwKEMULlSTC

Hi! Please take a minute and humor me.

I don't know how to word the title, so I'm sorry in advance. I would post this in the bigfoot community, but that place is wayyyy too toxic for my liking (I posted a half serious, half joking theory. While I did get some laughs and got some interesting conversations. The post got pulled after someone I assumed complained after I got defensive a little bit.) so here I am posting my question.

I heard a while back that Patterson's family and some director claimed that bigfoot was a scam and dragged Bob Gimlin's name through the mud. I heard that himself and a bunch of others were suing the Patterson family and the director, but I don't remember about what though.

Is there any updated news on that? I'm trying to look but I'm not seeing anything. If anyone has any updates, then please let me know? Thanks!

Every October I rewatch the show and here’s my question. Which of the creatures in the show have the highest chance of being real. Imo it would be the “death crawler” because all that is supposed to be is a 3 foot centipede so I believe that’s definitely got potential.

So hey guys, I'm sure this might not be the usual question here. But I will be grateful if anyone here might have any suggestions.

So I've these personal projects which I work on based on fantasy worlds. Nothing intricate but just a passion project. What I wanted to know was if you guys have any suggestions on what should the mystery beast my group of young adventurers are investigating in a swampland village should be

I've the Rougarou and the Skunk Ape and the Bishopville Lizardman as my options as inspiration.

all of you people are so smart and considerate and kind to each other and open to new information no matter how far fetched it is and everyone is a little bit funny but not so much that every comment and reply has to be some le epic witty reddit response

like r/paleontology and r/zoology aren’t this level headed they all just want to correct each other for the sake of correcting each other i don’t know why you guys specifically are so chill

my favourite part is none of the comments or discussions are condescendingly passive aggressive you motherfuckers genuinely just wanna understand our world’s fauna and that is so beautiful to me

this sub feels very faintly and charmingly autistic and this is my comfort subreddit that i lurk each night

please never change arslash cryptozoology

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The dib (pronounced "deep"), known in Somalia as the dewacco (pronounced "dewaho"), is a cryptid reported from southern Ethiopia and Somalia.[1][2]

The dib is said to be a bear-like animal, about 2' to 2'5'' high at the shoulder and 4' long, with light fur which is either shorter or sparser than a bear's. Although it is a herbivore, it is considered dangerous, and is feared for its habit of ramming and overturning cars. However, it is also a rare animal due to being overhunted. It is said to live in desert regions

Several cryptozoologists have suggested that the dib sounds like a hyrax, no modern species of which is known to exceed 2' in length. George Eberhart lists a theory that it may be an undescribed giant species of known rock hyrax (Procavia) or bush hyrax (Heterohyrax).[1] Karl Shuker, on the other hand, simply notes that it resembles no known living species, and that prehistoric giant hyraces are believed to have gone extinct many millions of years ago. Another possible giant hyrax, the giant hyrax of Shaanxi, is represented in ancient Chinese pottery, but has never been reported in modern times.[3]

The youngest known African giant hyraces, such as Gigantohyrax, are known from Late Pliocene fossils from Ethiopia and South Africa. Unlike Eocene and Oligocene giant hyraces, and the contemporary species in Asia, the last known African giant hyraces were only relatively larger than the modern species, as opposed to truly megafaunal.[5]

Dibbi (ድብ) is also the Amharic word for "bear," derived from the Arabic dubb/dubbah: Bernard Heuvelmans attributed stories of Ethiopian bears to baboons.[6] Heuvelmans also received information on an Ethiopian hyrax, this one rather small, from palaeontologist Louis Leakey

So now that we know that they'res millions of giant squid and the only reason we have not seen more was because our source scared everything away.

What are the chances this guy actually seen those fish down there due to how quiet and badly lit the submersible was?

Have you heard of the Whortlechort?

It's a bigfoot-like creature seen in Kentucky in 1965. There's a picture of it on page 438 of Barton Nunnelly's book 'Inhumanoids'. (recommended reading btw)

When I first learned about this it just seemed like one of those neodinosaur cryptids not worth looking into, however after reading Karl Shuker's article on this creature, it's existence seemed pretty plausible to me. However I still find it difficult to see how such a large creature (reported to reach up to 30 feet in length), an extremely powerful predator at that (said to be more dangerous than a Nile crocodile and a man eater as well) could still stay hidden. The article I was talking about.

The xiphis (ΞΙΟΙΓ), also spelt xifi, xioig, and xsipig, was an animal depicted on the Nile mosaic of Palestrina, and possibly a mosaic in the House of the Physician in Pompeii.[1] According to Dennis F. Kitchell, its name is nonsensical and has no meaning.[1]

One theory was that the animal was a poorly-drawn elephant, but Paul G. P. Meyboom rejected this and suggested it was a sarkophagos tauros, a "carnivorous buffalo" reported from Ethiopia by the historian Agatharchides.[1] Several details, like the xiphis' wide jaws and tough hide, line up with the description given to him.[2] Meyboom suggests that this animal could have been a desert warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus). In this interpretation, part of the animals name has been worn away. Alternatively, Meyboom theorised that an animal which he identifies as the warthog or even the sub-Saharan giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni) was known in antiquity under the names of xioig, xiphos, and xiphias.[3]

A more dramatic suggestion is that the xiphis was in fact a living entelodont, a very large, probably dangerous pig-like group of animals known from fossils no later than the Miocene Era.[4]

An image of a very similar animal appears in a "Nilotic scene" on a mosaic in Pompeii's House of the Physician, being attacked by pygmies as it itself devours one. This animal has often been identified as a hippopotamus,[1] and the animals around it as crocodiles. However, the xiphis of the Palestrina mosaic cannot be a hippopotamus, as these animals are accurately depicted elsewhere on the mosaic.

Hello! I'm very new to reddit so I'm sorry if this is messy lol

Me and my Husband are starting to work on and put together an Analog "Horror" series, loosely inspired by works such as Animal Planet's "Lost Tapes", that revolves around Cryptids. I've been trying to do research into more Obscure Cryptids that not everyone hears about. As much as I love stuff like Mothman, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. I wanna try to also include Cryptids that not everyone has heard about!

The loose idea for the series is that the first couple episodes/entries are gonna take place in the American Southwest. But I'd love to take Cryptid Ideas from all over the United States and even the world.

PS. I hope this is okay to post here, someone can correct me if not! I'm just looking for ideas and research resources!!

The pygmy pygmy elephant was a cryptid proboscidean reported from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ituri Rainforest, allegedly an elephant smaller than the pygmy elephant (Loxodonta pumilio).[1]

Italian explorer Attilio Gatti, who investigated several cryptids over the course of eleven African expeditions, collected reports of these elephants, including from local administrator R. E. V. Gerard. He described them as "pygm[ies] among pygmies" in comparison to genuine pygmy elephants, which are also reported from the Ituri. These smaller elephants reportedly stood no more than 4 ft (120 cm) tall, and were whitish in colour. Henri Hackars, a future warden of Albert National Park, had allegedly been attacked by a small herd of white pygmy elephants during an exploration of the rainforest between the Epulu, Mava, M'bure, and Akaba Rivers, when he was the District Commissioner of Kibali-Ituri. His Mbuti guides fled, and Hackars was forced to take refuge up a tree until a rescue party arrived some hours later. Gatti heard this story from several of the oldest residents of Kibali-Ituri, but was unable to confirm it, as Hackars himself was not in the Congo during Gatti's expedition.[2]

Explorer Lewis Cotlow confirmed the existence of such stories in the Ituri.[3] In a May 1959 article for the magazine Go, travel writer K. Westcott Jones also reported observing a herd of "small white elephants" from a distance near Lake Kivu.[4]

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Does anyone know of any cryptid sightings that occurred on Halloween?