Cryptozoology

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Hi all. Today I want to talk about another irrational thing that needs to be deconstructed - cryptozoology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology

Cryptozoology means "the study of hidden animals". I would like cryptozoologists if they were actually looking for hidden animals. Some new species are probably out there because some animals are small enough to avoid detection. Also, a good portion of the deep sea may contain new animals because most of the deep sea has not been explored. Sometimes I suspect that trilobites may still be alive down there. It's theoretically possible.

That being said, most cryptozoologists prefer to search for very large animals in places that have already been thoroughly explored. How could such a large animal remain hidden for so long?

Bigfoot: People who claim to see bigfoot are probably just seeing brown bears. Some people who see a brown bear at a distance may imagine that it is more humanlike. This is because anthropomorphism is a normal part of the human psyche. Humans naturally project humanlike traits onto non-human entities, which is why human-animal hybrids have been a huge part of human artwork since prehistoric times.

Some cryptozoologists insist that bigfoot is a living Gigantopithecus, but this does not make sense as Gigantopithecus was a quadrupedal knuckle-walker. Bigfoot is almost always depicted as being fully bipedal. In most depictions, bigfoot more closely resembles a very large Paranthropus, though there is no evidence that Paranthropus ever set foot outside of Africa.

Yeti: It's probably just another bear. "Yeti fur" that is analysed by science usually turns out to be bear fur.

Chupacabra: It's probably based on exaggerated accounts of vampire bats.

Loch Ness Monster: Some people will mistake anything on the surface of Loch Ness for a monster.

Some people have suggested that the Loch Ness Monster is a late-surviving plesiosaur. This makes no sense because Nessie is usually depicted with a swan-like neck. In outdated restorations, plesiosaurs are generally given swan-like necks … though modern scientific evidence has proven that Plesiosaurs could not bend that way. Also, people will usually claim that Nessie has the ability to walk across land. If a plesiosaur ever went onto land, it would be like a beached whale. Also, how did the ancestors of Nessie survive the last glacial maximum?

Why do people waste their time on this crap?

Yep. Cryptozoology is a combination of stupidity and wishful thinking.