Thread 5040066

Most likely:
>surviving Thylacines in New Guinea
>Orang Pendek is an ape species unknown to science in Sumatra
>Mapinguari is a small to medium-sized ground sloth in the Amazon

Long shot but I wish
>surviving Steller's sea cows somewhere in the Bering sea

Fat chance:
>any kind of non-avian dinosaur or prehistoric reptile (plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, etc)
>Megalodon

I have no idea what to make of the sasquatch. The most interesting video I've seen is from circa 2010 in British Columbia of a creature moving preternaturally fast across a snowy mountain and couldn't be identified by the wildlife biologists who recorded it. Everything else I've seen has been unconvincing.

>>5040068
Most cryptids are animals that have long been presumed to be extinct. Even "Nessie is a plesiosaur" falls into this category.

>>5040066 (OP)
I don't necessarily believe in it but bigfoot is the one I wish the most was real. Something about a fuckhuge ape or monkey wandering around is captivating.
Personally my headcanon is they could have been another species of Homo that was being killed off due to sapiens. Would explain why we can't find their bones; we do, we just think they're ours.

>>5040066 (OP)
I 100% believe bigfoot was real at some point and went extinct in the 1900's, the 70's as the closest to today, which would mean the PG film and sierra sounds could be real

>>5040094
Bigfoot was not a non-human ape. It was a divergent homo sapiens population suffering from hypertrichosis due to the founder effect - initially created by the ejection of a few affected ndividuals from native american tribes.

As such, "bigfoot" (actually an illiterate, borderline alinguistic human being totally cut off from their source culture) was not a distinct species and their population was extremely fragile as humans without help are. A simple disruption of their usual lifestyle was enough to crater their birthrate, since they lacked the advantage of thousands of years of linguistic and cultural evolution and could not adapt on a large scale.

Hypertrichosis is correlated with a higher average IQ, which may explain how "bigfoot" (humans) persisted so long despite being feral humans.

It is notable that native americans generally lack body hair and would consider particularly hairy individuals bizarre.

>>5040066 (OP)
Aquatic species are most likely, as we still haven't discovered much of the ocean.
There's no way shit like bigfoot is real, modern tech should have caught proof of me a long time ago if so.

HOOP SNAKE

>>5040066 (OP)
Thylacine sightings are common where I grew up (Gippsland, Australia)

>>5040096
You don't know that for sure. It's why i just prefer to call it an ape because it very obviously was one. Anything more specific is pure speculation

>>5040117
>me

Orang Pendek might just be an undocumented subspecies of the Sumatran Orangutan.

>>5040121
Based

>>5040184
>>5040185
What's the tl;dr on these?

>>5040125
they're trying to bring them back along with the Moa birds in NZ using "de-extinction tech".....we shall see.

I still dream of other Paleozoic sea creatures surviving in the deep depths of the ocean. Crinoids did it, so there has to be more.

>>5040227
I also think the Lusca is out there

>>5040066 (OP)
The thing about Bigfoot is that it arguably crosses into "UFO/ghost" territory, which isn't to endorse those theories but rather place it under either "high strangeness" or psychosocial explanations. If it does exist, it's not a normal animal.

Yes. Dr. Hidenobu Toriyoshi, DVM, Ph.D says so.
https://youtu.be/PYOF6UpdhUI?si=toaOVJMWLMMQOMH8
鳥吉英伸

>>5040244
A lot of weird bigfoot shit can be explained with infrasound

>>5040232
That one seems strangely plausible. It is estimated to be 30 feet long so it wouldn't even be the biggest cephalopod alive today

>>5040219
It’s colossal doing this so it’ll likely be another grift

>>5040094
1. no bones

2. the costume in the PG film has perfectly flat latex soles

3. you're an idiot

>>5040295
How do you explain the perfect descriptions of primate behavior from native americans in a time before the gorilla was even known to science and primathology wasn't even a thing?

>>5040295
But yeah the flat soles are the only thing that makes me not consider the PG film 100% real

>>5040284
Not the repeated connection to UFO's. It may not be a cryptid at all.

>>5040298
>perfect descriptions of primate behavior from native americans

Examples?

>>5040068
>animal not currently accepted by the scientific community
Do scientists believe that pterosaurs with bioluminescence dig up bodies in brazil? No? Cryptid.

>>5040295
>2. the costume in the PG film has perfectly flat latex soles
and flexing muscles, crazy

>>5040298
No, they don't.

>>5040320
No, it doesn't

>>5040184
>abominable swamp slob
Look at him go!

>>5040320
What you and all the talking heads see and regurgitate into each other’s mouths is not muscle movement, it’s the costume bunching and shifting up, PG Film is so hilarious because of how obvious of a fake it is, yet there’s always some egghead who vouches for it and keeps the flame alive

>>5040293
Probably :/ .....but I want to believe. It "should" be possible. Peter Jackson is making a doc about the process of bringing back the Moa birb to NZ, and the Hemsworth bros are supporting the Thylocene project. It should at least get some publicity, but I ain't holding my breath, but if they can do it and get them to breed successfully, it really will be one of the all-time great scientific achievements. A legit win for the world.

>>5040083
I mean there are monkeys in South America but an ape that size living in North America without leaving a trace is really a stretch

>>5040457
You would need many breeding populations too. There will always be strange individuals, but they rarely reproduce and create viable offspring that also have the same stable genetics.

>>5040066 (OP)
from what Ive read, the ground sloth sightings have been getting fewer and more remote in the later half of the 20th century already. They are probably heavily impacted by loss of tree cover and might be gone before we ever even get footage of one.
>>5040083
>>5040096
>>5040244
pretty much every tribe in north america has a name and stories about it and theres tens of thousands of modern eyewitness encounters that all describe very similar behaviour patterns.
You get screams, tossing stones, red glowing eyes, getting chased out of certain areas, sudden feeling of dread, telepathic communication, "predator cloaking", heavy trees twisted and woven into each other or rammed upside down into the ground and tracks in the middle of nowhere. Quite a lot of encounters are by people that laughed about it before their own encounter.
Everything points to them being very real and pretty common and a related species of human with some unusual abilities.

>>5040066 (OP)
There was one faggot blogger who tried to claim the entity moving through the snow in this video was him but couldn't even get the dates right. Other than that, I've never seen a good explanation for what's in this video. It's definitely not a bear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYz9L_jl-0Q

>>5040244
not to mention that the amount of UFO/ghost/bigfoot encounters/"""proof"""" have fallen off a cliff since smartphones became widespread

>>5040653
They actually haven't. We have several drone and smartphone videos. That whole argument is false.

>>5040659
>dumb retard doesn't know how easy it is to fake virtually whatever phenomenon you want to in current year

>>5040066 (OP)
Atmospheric jellyfish.

>>5040066 (OP)
>Cryptids most likely to exist?

I know it's not 100% the intention of the thread, but I'm a very firm believer that UFOs are some kind of atmospheric/space animal. Like this Anon brings up: >>5040696 atmospheric jellyfish/hydrozoa, space amoebas, what have you.

>>5040311
The best examples are brought up in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RCTmgcD5mg
The story comes from a book written by a conquistador back then

>>5040653
That is why i don't support a living bigfoot but i believe it was a now extinct species of bipedal ape that went extinct somewhere along the 1900's

>>5040323
>nuh-huh

Mokele-mbembe could be a formally undescribed crocodilian or Nile monitor subspecies

>>5040641
Why are there no colonial-era or even 19th century depictions of bigfoot, then? There were a ton of people fucking around the wilderness in those eras. Makes no sense for it to exist as some fringe indian legend and then suddenly white people start seeing it in the middle of the 20th century.

>>5040820
They're proficient in avoiding traps and whispered "no one will ever believe you and they'll shove you into asylum

>>5040066 (OP)
your mom

>>5040442
>PG Film is so hilarious because of how obvious of a fake it is,
only if you "know" it's a fake ahead of time lmao

>>5040653
every time someone says this I think about how awful my pictures of zoo animals are, and how I've had to point out where the animal even is. Would they believe me if they didn't believe that animal existed?

>>5040653
>there's no footage after we got smartphones and drones lol
>>5040659
>actually we have a lot of smartphone and drone footage
>>5040685
>yeah well that's FAKE don't you know how easy it is to fake it???
skeptic-kun...

Is thylacines still being alive the cryptid version of the Mafia colluded with the CIA to kill JFK conspiracy?

>>5040853
I don't know, I think tazzy tigers still being alive is such a basic, easy to believe theory that it's hard to compare to other conspiracies. I guess the israelis did 9/11 conspiracy theory?

>>5040852
What are the best smartphone videos of Bigfoot?

>>5040852
In current year you have to approach all paranormal/cryptid videos as fake until proven real, there's just no way around it. There's too much of this shit out there.

>>5040066 (OP)
>orang pendek in sumatra
Too densely populated by humans.
>mapinguari sloth
The big sloths didn’t live in the amazon. It’s not really an ecosystem that can sustain large animals past a jaguar or so.

>>5040904
And we’ve just gotten to the deepfake era. In a couple years it will be joever.

>>5040976
You're thinking of the Megatherium. There were smaller giant sloth species which could easily elude detection in the Amazon.

>>5040815
Crocodilians, like many reptiles and fish, never stop growing. Wouldn't be surprising to hear of one getting to ridiculous sizes.

>>5040904
I agree in principle but that just means tons of would-be evidence will always be thrown out. Historically a large variety of animals lasted centuries as reports without getting a body to verify, so it's frustrating hearing people say that it's not worth taking seriously because they're "all faked" when that isn't true for any other hard-to-find animal. I mean there are mountain lions where I live but every map you see says they don't exist here. If those aren't verified scientifically even though tons of people here have seen them, why can't something that hasn't been confirmed otherwise be out there too, you know?

>>5040976
>The big sloths didn’t live in the amazon.
weren't there gomphotheres there?

>>5040862
There's one where a bigfoot is seen in the middle of nowhere from the vantage point of a train, and there's a drone footage where it's again in the middle of nowhere and it is there for only five seconds before rushing off into thick trees.
The footage exists. Is it real? Probably guy in suit again. But smartphone and drone footage exists, it is utter cope that bigfoot has completely vanished there just isn't huge media interest like there was in the 90's-10's. Same story with UFO's. Amount of new footage has stayed the same, there's just no big media "LOOK AT THAT!" anymore unless it's footage from the US military.

>>5040070
You know what he meant.

>>5040066 (OP)
Those two deep fish that seemed like average abyssal fish (or well, whatever is considered average in that shitshow of a place) who's name i don't remember

>>5041257
Deepstar 4000 fish (pic related) and Untouchable Bathysphere fish.

>>5040641
>sudden feeling of dread, telepathic communication, "predator cloaking"
>everything points to them being very real
if you really want to be taken seriously, stop being such a dumb fucking nigger

>>5041845
to be fair that "sudden feeling of dread" happens with big cats irl due to their use of weaponized infrasound

>>5041257
Coelocanth??

lol

>>5043985
Man in an ape suit

>>5040641
Probably just bears that couldn't use their front legs for some reason.

>>5043986
I just find it interesting that no one has been able to replicate it using technology from the era. Just something interesting

>>5044102
To replicate a monkey suit? Are you retarded?

>>5044102
I didn't know foam, cloth, fur, and wire were invented in the 21st century

>>5044192
Still the funniest thing anybody has ever done

Sadly, I strongly suspect 90% of cryptid sightings were actual animals that went extinct in the decades following their discoveries. Even once-abundant animals have disappeared or ended up on the brink of extinction in a century or so, there's very little chance that a large animal that was already rare and limited in range before industrialization would survive prolonged human encroachment. The few remaining megafauna we get are already miracles.

But hey, maybe we can find some relatively fresh skeletons one day.

>>5044103
To replicate its proportions and movement

>>5040066 (OP)
Fuckin Aliens of some sort, by a longshot.

>>5040295
Hard to tell. Also, titties.

>>5044284
the proportions are nothing spectacular. the suits joints do not line up with the wearers. this is a common trick. its awkward movement derives from the suit.

>>5044284
The proportions and movement are that of a normal man. Look at the video. >>5043985

>>Orang Pendek is an ape species unknown to science in Sumatra
>Orang
>unknown to science
Now where have I heard that before?

>>5040066 (OP)
I think it is possible that the mongolian deathworm is real

>>5045102
It was reported to be 2 feet long. I'm pretty sure we have bigger worms alive right now

>>5045102
>>5045139
wasnt it supposedly a sand boa?

>>5045228
It is one of the theories to explain what it was but i don't see a 2 foot long burrowing desert worm that hard to believe

>>5040295
Looks like real ape feet to me

>>5045912
See >>5043985

>>5040854
What's preventing people from finding them? I remember there being some youtube vid of this guy who spent decades trying to find it but I can't remember the details. Is the southeast of Asia and the islands around Australia just that tough to navigate and explore?

>>5046185
Or... the more likely answer.

>>5046186
Which is?

>>5046194
They're extinct.

>>5046196
Yeah well I decided to go with the fun answer that would lead to an interesting hypothetical. Yep they are probably extinct.

>>5046185
>>5046200
Actually, yeah there are large parts of New Guinea and southeast Asia which are poorly explored

>>5046185
People do find them. The response from the Australian government is to firebomb the area in order to protect mining companies, who would be forced to leave the area if a rare animal was discovered living there.

>>5040066 (OP)
And yet no one knows what the fuck this thing even is

>>5046252
Fake and gay?

>>5040070
Nessie is an invertebrate. This was commonly accepted untill the surgeons photograph hoax which has set back Nessie researchers ever since.

>>5046321
Loch Ness pool noodle.

>>5046316
No it's very much real. It was filmed via an unmanned submersible (pic rel) under the ownership of Shell when looking for possible oil fields for drilling underwater. Marine biologists are deadset this an animal but they don't what exactly it is.
https://youtu.be/sGBARlJ1ZYY?si=6JKQonQ0JVRTO3G2

>>5046324
Looks like some sort of jellyfish

I hope bigfoot is real. Have you seen those tits in the PG film?

>>5046252
It's obviously an undiscovered siphonophore. Still a cryptid, thoever.

>>5046415
Hairy tits

>>5046349
What is this?

>>5047535
An apefoot

>>5048367
Looks more like a bear.

>>5040117
Bigfoot could easily be real.
At least in Russia as much of it is unexplored and uninhabited.

>>5044229
I love how, even dead, that bird is flipping humanity the bird.

>>5048394
bigfoot alive in serbia