Is Bigfoot real? What about the Loch Ness monster? Or the Yeti? Legends of these mythical creatures have permeated throughout our history. We hear of Bigfoot sightings from time to time, but aside ...

An artist's rendition of what a baby Bigfoot might look like. This is one of about 10,000 items on display at the International Cryptozoology Museum. (Photo by Laura Poppick / Contents Courtesy of ...

Some, like the Tasmanian tiger, are considered extinct, yet sightings are still reported. Some, like the giant squid, existed only as rumors until hard evidence finally appeared. And roaming a shadowy ...

A symposium at the Bates College Museum of Art this weekend relates the visual arts to cryptozoology, the study of unknown, rumored or hidden animals. Treating issues of cryptozoology, science and art ...

Cryptozoology—the study of hidden or unknown animals—has fascinated people for centuries. Unlike mainstream zoology, cryptozoology ventures into the fringes of the natural world, exploring creatures ...

A restaurant in Bishopville, S.C. markets the town’s association to the Lizard Man. Joseph P. Laycock, Author provided One of my hobbies is dragging my patient wife to small towns to study beliefs and ...

Bored with Bigfoot? Zombies giving you the ZZZ’s? It’s a shame that with an entire world full of monsters from cryptozoology and folklore that Hollywood keeps going to the same old well for their big ...

The dangers that lurk in cryptid territories may never completely deter die-hard monster hunters, but some creatures are better left as mysteries. Most monster lore is a product of wild imaginations, ...

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The study of extremely rare or mythical creatures like Bigfoot, called cryptozoology, is generally considered a fringe science, lacking the type of robust analysis required to appear in peer-reviewed ...