r/Cryptozoology • u/4delusionOfGreatness • 2d ago

Skepticism Genuine question

Do you really think there are animals like loch ness monster, or basically any animals that are not to be expected, somewhere alive in hidding?

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u/HoraceRadish 2d ago

There are tons of animals we don't know about and may never see. I do not believe there are large ones that we haven't interacted with.

No bigfoot, megalodons, or giant sloths in my opinion.

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u/4delusionOfGreatness 2d ago

Sub says that its about animals that science doesnt recognize, was asking about that ones

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u/NotQuiteTradecraft 13h ago

If you mean: do you really think any recognized (more or less "famous") cryptid (like Bigfoot or Nessie - not an unknown animal, but a specific, recognized cryptid) is a real (but for whatever reason unrecognized by science) animal...then the answer is no, absolutely not.

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u/Biomechanical_Kaiju 2d ago edited 2d ago

Best bet would be cryptids in very remote areas, just a few lake monsters such as Iliamna Lake, Lake Labynkyr and Lake Baikal MAY have something to them.

But note, the keywords I used are "MAY have something to them", not that they do have something but that they MAY have something.

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u/BasiliskArt_ 2d ago

I’d really like there to be a population of ammonites somewhere but it’s probably not gonna happen

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u/HoraceRadish 2d ago

They would be the rage for the aquarium market. The new mini shark.

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u/BasiliskArt_ 2d ago

I imagine keeping an ammonite would be really hard.

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u/Romboteryx 1d ago

Nautilus can be kept in aquaria. But good luck getting one

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u/BasiliskArt_ 22h ago

Yeah uhh. I do not have “fuck you” amounts of money.

Also nautilus aren’t ammonites. They diverged like 400 million years ago

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u/HoraceRadish 2d ago

I really have no idea. I wonder what they would eat?

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u/BasiliskArt_ 2d ago

Depends on the genus. Some were hunters, others ate plankton, I imagine a bunch were detritivores.

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u/JarJarKinkz_ 2d ago

trinity salamander is very plausible

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u/ValhaHazred Atmospheric Beast 2d ago

Not really, certainly not the charismatic megafauna sort of cryptid like Bigfoot or Nessie, but I am more open to the idea of some smaller species in less inhabited areas being possible.

My interest in cryptozoology (and UFOlogy as well) is entirely folkloric.

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u/FuzzyDunlop1982 2d ago

The Tasmanian Tiger is the most likely, for me.

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u/Sauerkraut1321 2d ago

In hidding