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American hyena
American hyenas are cryptid canines reported from the United States, particularly the northeastern states and Texas, described as resembling hyenas. The most famous examples are the Ioway shunka warak'in (Iowa-Oto: "carrying-off dogs -
Mokele-mbembe
The mokele-mbembe or li'kela-bembe is a neodinosaurian cryptid reported mainly from the Republic of the Congo and Cameroon, where it is alleged to inhabit swampy or marshy wetlands, lakes, and rivers. It -
Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology
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Tratratratra
The tratratratra or trétrétrétré is a cryptid giant lemur reported from Madagascar, often identified with some form of giant lemur such as Palaeopropithecus or Hadropithecus. The tratratratra is described as being the size of a -
List of sea serpent sightings in the Pacific Ocean (1848–1891)
The following is a list of alleged and circumstantial sea serpent sightings reported from the Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas between 1848 and 1891, a span of time identified by Bernard Heuvelmans as the -
Lusca
The lusca is a marine cryptid reported from the Caribbean Sea around the Bahamas, usually identified as a gigantic octopus or giant scuttle, although folklore and some sightings alternatively describe it as an octopus-shark -
Emela-ntouka
The emela-ntouka (Bomitaba or Lingala: "killer of elephants" or "eater of the tops of trees" ) is a neodinosaurian cryptid reported from the rainforest swamps and rivers of the Republic of the Congo and the -
Water elephant
The ndgoko na maiji (Teke: "water elephant") was a freshwater cryptid proboscidean reported from lakes and swamps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has frequently been conflated with pygmy elephants, which are reported -
Chipekwe
The chipekwe was a cryptid ungulate reported from freshwater habitats in Zambia, particularly around the Bangweulu Wetlands, but also from the Kafue Flats and the lakes and rivers at the source of the River Congo -
Lau
The lau was a cryptid reported from the marshes of the White Nile, in what is now South Sudan, described as an enormous serpentine animal with facial protuberances such as barbels or a crest. While -
Giant shark
Giant sharks are cryptids reported mainly from the South Pacific, as well as the North Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, considered a Coleman-Huyghe type of aquatic cryptid. They are associated either with oversized great -
American elephant
The American elephant was a cryptid reported historically from the United States and Canada, mainly from New England, the Great Lakes region, and the Rocky Mountains. Animals resembling elephants were mentioned in the stories of -
Queensland tiger
The Queensland tiger is a feliform cryptid reported from eastern Australia, mainly from the montane rainforests ("scrubs") of the Wet Tropics of Queensland, where it or a similar animal was known as the yarri (Djirbalngan -
Mapinguari
The mapinguari (see etymology below) or mapinguary is a cryptid reported from the Brazilian and Venezuelan Amazon and possibly Paraguay, described most simply as a bulletproof, extremely foul-smelling animal with long hair, robust claws -
Devil-pig
The devil-pig was a cryptid reported from the highlands of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya, particularly the Wharton Range and the Owen Stanley Range. Supposedly a cloven-footed animal, it has been compared -
Rothschild-Neuville tusk
The Rothschild-Neuville tusk, or simply Rothschild tusk, was the tusk section of an unidentified animal, thought to be a proboscidean, purchased in Ethiopia in 1904 by Baron Maurice de Rothschild and French zoologist Henri -
Giant lemur
Giant lemurs or subfossil lemurs are lemurs which lived in Madagascar until historical times, some of which grew to the size of a chimpanzee. Subfossil remains of lemurs no larger than modern species have also -
Nandi bear
The Nandi bear or chemosit (Kalenjin: "devil" ) is a cryptid reported from the highlands of western Kenya, as well as Uganda, described as a dangerous animal resembling a bear with a shaggy mane. Various different -
Dingonek
The dingonek was a cryptid reported from the rivers of southern Kenya, known to the Okiek people, and made famous by an alleged sighting made by the English adventurer John Alfred Jordan. Jordan described it -
Minhocão
The minhocão (Portuguese: "giant earthworm" ) was a cryptid reported from southern Brazil, and possibly also Uruguay, Nicaragua, and Bolivia. It was described as a subterranean serpentine creature with hard black scales and horns, which causes -
Neodinosaurs in the Amazon Basin
Neodinosaurs have been reported from the Amazon Basin, principally Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, since the late 19 Century. Descriptions from South American are uniformly vaguer than the more famous neodinosaurs of Central and West -
Ground sloth
Ground sloths, giant sloths, or giant ground sloths were a group of sloths belonging to four families (Megalonychidae, which also includes the extant two-toed sloths, Megatheriidae, Nothrotheriidae, and Mylodontidae; some authorities also consider Scelidotheriidae -
Yeti
The yeti (yet-teh; Sherpa: "that thing," "rock animal," or "small man-like animal") or the abominable snowman is a cryptid giant hominid reported primarily from the Himalayan mountains of Nepal, Tibet, China, Bhutan and -
Crowing crested cobra
Crowing crested cobras are cryptid snakes reported from several Central African nations, particularly Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. Often compared to the mythical cockatrice, these alleged snakes are distinguished by their cockerel-like vocalisations and similarly -
Neomylodon
The Patagonian ground sloth (Neomylodon listai or Grypotherium domesticum) was a cryptid ground sloth proposed to exist in the interior of the Patagonian plains by the Argentine palaeontologist Florentino Ameghino at the end of the
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