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	Cryptids are [[animal]]s that [[cryptozoologists]] believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by [[science]]. Cryptozoology is a [[pseudoscience]], which primarily looks at [[anecdotal]] stories, and other claims rejected by the scientific community. While [[biologist]]s regularly identify new species following established [[scientific methodology]], cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the [[folklore]] record and rumor. Entities that may be considered cryptids by cryptozoologists include [[Bigfoot]], [[Yeti]], the [[chupacabra]], the [[Jersey Devil]], the [[Loch Ness Monster]], and the [[Mokele-mbembe]].		Cryptids are [[animal]]s that [[cryptozoologists]] believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by [[science]]. Cryptozoology is a [[pseudoscience]], which primarily looks at [[anecdotal]] stories, and other claims rejected by the scientific community. While [[biologist]]s regularly identify new species following established [[scientific methodology]], cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the [[folklore]] record and rumor. Entities that may be considered cryptids by cryptozoologists include [[Bigfoot]], [[Yeti]], the [[chupacabra]], the [[Jersey Devil]], the [[Loch Ness Monster]], and the [[Mokele-mbembe]].

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Cryptids are [[animal]]s that [[cryptozoologists]] believe may exist somewhere in the wild, but whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by [[science]]. Cryptozoology is a [[pseudoscience]], which primarily looks at [[anecdotal]] stories, and other claims rejected by the scientific community. While [[biologist]]s regularly identify new species following established [[scientific methodology]], cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the [[folklore]] record and rumor. Entities that may be considered cryptids by cryptozoologists include [[Bigfoot]], [[Yeti]], the [[chupacabra]], the [[Jersey Devil]], the [[Loch Ness Monster]], and the [[Mokele-mbembe]].

Scholars have noted that the cryptozoology subculture rejected mainstream approaches from an early date, and that adherents often express hostility to mainstream science. Scholars have studied cryptozoologists and their influence (including the pseudoscience's association with [[Young Earth creationism]]),<ref>{{cite book |last=Hill |first=Sharon A. |year=2017 |title=Scientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers |page=66 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |isbn=9781476630823 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Card |first=Jeb J. |year=2016 |chapter=Steampunk Inquiry: A Comparative Vivisection of Discovery Pseudoscience |editor-last1=Card |editor-first1=Jeb J. |editor-last2=Anderson |editor-first2=David S. |title=Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices |page= 32 |publisher=[[University of Alabama Press]] |isbn=9780817319113 |quote=Creationists have embraced cryptozoology and some cryptozoological expeditions are funded by and conducted by creationists hoping to disprove evolution. }}</ref> noted parallels in cryptozoology and other pseudosciences such as [[ghost hunting]] and [[ufology]], and highlighted uncritical media propagation of cryptozoologist claims.

== List ==
=== Aquatic or semi-aquatic ===
{{see also|List of lake monsters}}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#115a6c;"
! Name
! Other Names
! Description
! class="unsortable" width=180 align="center" | Purported Location
! Depiction
|-
|''{{sort|Cadborosaurus}}''{{sfn|Loxton|Prothero|2013|pp=261–295}}
|Caddy
|Sea animal
|Pacific Coast of North America
|[[File:Cadborosaurus October 1937.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Champ (folklore)|Champ]]<ref name="EncyclopediaofPseudoscience
">{{cite book|first1=Michael |last1=Shermer |first2=Pat |last2=Linse |title=The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr4snwg7iaEC&pg=PA72 |date=November 2002 |page=72 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=9781576076538}}</ref>
|Champy
|Lake monster
|[[Lake Champlain]], North America
|[[File:Artistic representation of Sandra Mansi's 1977 photograph of "Champ" lake monster.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Cryptid whale|Cryptid Whales]]<ref>Mörzer Bruyns, W. F. J. (1971). Field guide of whales and dolphins. Rivonverhandeling. Tor. pp. 124–125. {{ISBN|978-90-70055-09-7}}</ref><ref>[http://www.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/share/AquaticMammalsIssueArchives/1991/Aquatic_Mammals_17_1/17.1Raynal.pdf Cetaceans with two dorsal fins]</ref>
|Giglioli's Whale, Rhinoceros dolphin, High-finned sperm whale, Alula whale, Unidentified beaked whales
|Sea animal
|Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean
|[[File:Amphiptera pacifica.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|[[Dobhar-chú]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/irelands-hound-of-the-deep-dobhar-chu |title=Ireland's hound of deep - Dobhar Chu |publisher=[[Irish Central News]] |access-date=19 December 2018}}</ref>
|Water Hound, King Otter
|Extra-large [[otter]]-like [[carnivorous]] [[Aquatic animal|aquatic]] mammal
|Ireland
|[[File:Dobhar-chu encounter.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Iemisch]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gilmore |first=David D. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802059457 |title=Monsters : evil beings, mythical beasts, and all manner of imaginary terrors |date=2003 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-0322-6 |location=Philadelphia |oclc=802059457}}</ref>
|Iemisch Listai
|Mix of a jaguar and otter
|[[Patagonia]]
|
|-
|[[Igopogo]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|Kempenfelt Kelly
|Lake monster
|[[Lake Simcoe, Ontario]] (Canada)
|
|-
|[[Isshii]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|[[Issie]]
|Lake monster
|Japan
|
|-
|[[Labynkyr Lake|Labynkyr Devil]]<ref name="Live Science 2013">{{cite web |last1=Lallanilla |first1=Marc |title=Reports Surface of Monster Lurking in Russian Lake |url=https://www.livescience.com/26836-lake-labynkyr-devil-vorota-monster.html |website=livescience.com |publisher=[[Live Science]] |access-date=21 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929190942/https://www.livescience.com/26836-lake-labynkyr-devil-vorota-monster.html |archive-date=29 September 2021 |date=4 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="Divers prepare">{{cite web |title=Divers preparing for icy waters of Russia's 'Loch Ness' |url=https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/divers-preparing-for-icy-waters-of-russias-loch-ness/ |website=siberiantimes.com |publisher=[[The Siberian Times]] |access-date=21 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128145319/https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/divers-preparing-for-icy-waters-of-russias-loch-ness/ |archive-date=28 January 2021 |date=5 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="meet the creature">{{cite web |title=Meet the creature found by divers in Russia's Loch Ness, famed for legends of monsters |url=https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/meet-the-creature-found-by-divers-in-russias-loch-ness-famed-for-legends-of-monsters/ |website=siberiantimes.com |publisher=[[The Siberian Times]] |access-date=21 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108191737/https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/meet-the-creature-found-by-divers-in-russias-loch-ness-famed-for-legends-of-monsters/ |archive-date=8 November 2021 |date=21 April 2014}}</ref>
|Labynkyrsky Chert{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|Lake monster
|[[Oymyakonsky Ulus]], [[Sakha Republic]], Russia
|
|-
|[[Loch Ness Monster]]<ref name=bbctravel />
|Nessie
|Lake monster
|[[Loch Ness]], Scotland
|[[File:Lochneska poboba museumofnessie (cropped).jpg|180px|Sculpture of the Loch Ness monster as a plesiosaurus]]
|-
|[[Loveland Frog]]<ref>{{Skeptoid|id=4473|number=473|date=30 June 2015|last=Haupt|first=R.|title=The Loveland Frog|accessdate=1 September 2021}}</ref>
|Loveland frogman, Loveland lizard
|Humanoid frog
|[[Loveland, Ohio]]
|[[File:Loveland frog.png|180px]]
|-
|[[Lusca]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Guimont |first=Edward |date=2021-10-05 |title=The Megalodon: A Monster of the New Mythology |url=https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/2793 |journal=M/C Journal |language=en |volume=24 |issue=5 |doi=10.5204/mcj.2793 |s2cid=241813307 |issn=1441-2616|doi-access=free }}</ref>
|
|Giant Octopus{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|[[Blue hole]]s in the Bahamas
|
|-
|[[Mamlambo]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|
|Lake monster
|[[South Africa]]
|-
|[[Manipogo]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|Winnipogo
|Lake monster
|[[Lake Manitoba]], Canada
|
|-
|[[Megalodon#In popular culture|Megalodon]]<ref name=":1" />
|Otodus megalodon
|Giant Shark
|Oceans
|
|-
|[[Mokele-mbembe]]{{sfn|Loxton|Prothero|2013|pp=187–188}}
|
|Dinosaur (lake, river and/or swamp monster)
|[[Republic of the Congo]]
|[[File:Mokele-mbembe_ill_artlibre_jnl.png|180px]]
|-
|[[Ningen (folklore)|Ningen]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Greenland |first1=Felicity |last2=Hayward |first2=Philip |date=23 September 2020 |title=Ningen: The generation of media-lore concerning a giant, sub-Antarctic, aquatic humanoid and its relation to Japanese whaling activity |url=https://shimajournal.org/issues/v14n1/10.-Greenland-and-Hayward-Shima-v14n1.pdf|journal=Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures |volume=14 |number=1 |pages=133–151 |doi=10.21463/shima.14.1.10 |issn=1834-6057 |hdl=10453/144607 |s2cid=216324017 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>
|
|[[Humanoid]]
|[[Subantarctic]]
|[[File:Ningen.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Ogopogo]]<ref name="EncyclopediaofPseudoscience" />
|N'ha•a•itk, Naitaka
|Lake monster
|[[Lake Okanagan]], Canada
|[[File:OgoPogo crop.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Sea serpent]]s{{sfn|Loxton|Prothero|2013|pp=228–326}}
|
|Sea animals, dinosaurs
|All bodies of water
|[[File:Soe Orm 1555.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Selma (lake monster)|Selma]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|Seljordsormen
|Lake monster
|Lake [[Seljord]], [[Telemark]], [[Norway]]
|{{center|[[File:Seljord komm.svg|100px]]}}
|-
|[[Steller's sea ape]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Nickell |first=Joe |date=Winter 2016–2017 |title=Steller's Sea Ape: Identifying an Eighteenth-Century Cryptid |url=https://www.csicop.org/sb/show/stellers_sea_ape_identifying_an_eighteenth-century_cryptid |magazine=Skeptical Briefs |publisher=Committee for Skeptical Inquiry |volume=26 |issue=4}}</ref>
|
|Sea animal
|Pacific Ocean
|{{center|[[File:Animal drawings collected by Felix Platter, p1 - (31).jpg|upright|180px]]}}
|}

=== Terrestrial ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#115a6c;"
! Name
! Other names
! Description
! Purported location
! Depiction
|-
|[[Beast of Bodmin Moor]]<ref name="forbes">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2018/11/16/fantastic-cryptids-and-where-to-find-them/#6b1949ed1d99 |title=Fantastic Cryptids And Where To Find Them |work=[[Forbes]] |access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref>
|
|Large [[Felidae|felid]]
|[[Cornwall]], England
|
|-
|[[Beast of Exmoor]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|
|[[Big cat]]
|England
|
|-
|[[British big cats]]<ref name="forbes" />
|Alien big cats (ABCs), [[phantom cat]]s, mystery cats, [[England|English]] lions, [[Beast of Bodmin]], [[Beast of Exmoor]]
|[[Carnivorous]] mammal
|Great Britain
|
|-
|[[Bukit Timah Monkey Man]]<ref name="CNA">{{cite web |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/on-the-hunt-for-the-elusive-bukit-timah-monkey-man-9816486 |title=On the hunt for the elusive Bukit Timah Monkey Man |publisher=[[Channel NewsAsia]] |access-date=18 December 2018}}</ref>
|BTM, BTMM
|Forest-dwelling [[Hominidae|hominid]] or other [[primate]]
|[[Singapore]]
|
|-
|[[Chupacabra]]<ref name="PseudoscienceACriticalEncyclopedia">{{cite book|first=Brian |last=Regal |title=Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia: A Critical Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c6PACQAAQBAJ |date=15 October 2009 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=978-0-313-35508-0}}</ref>
|Chupacabras (Spanish for goat-sucker)
|
|[[Puerto Rico]] (originally), South and Central America, Southern North America
|[[File:Chupacabra (artist's rendition).jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Dover Demon]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Sullivan |first=Mark |title=Decades later, the Dover Demon still haunts |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/10/29/decades_later_the_dover_demon_still_haunts |access-date=6 August 2021 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |date=29 October 2006}}</ref>
|
|
|[[Dover, Massachusetts]]
|
|-
|[[Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Laycock |first1=Joseph P. |title=A Search for Mysteries and Monsters in Small Town America |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/monster-festival-pilgrimage-small-town-america-180969568/ |website=[[Smithsonian Magazine]] |access-date=18 March 2021 |language=en |date=11 July 2018}}</ref>
|Lizard Man of Lee County
|[[Bipedal]]
|[[South Carolina]], United States
|
|-
|[[Malagasy hippopotamus|Malagasy hippo]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Burney |first=David A. |last2=Ramilisonina |date=December 1998 |title=The Kilopilopitsofy, Kidoky, and Bokyboky: Accounts of Strange Animals from Belo-sur-mer, Madagascar, and the Megafaunal "Extinction Window" |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1525/aa.1998.100.4.957 |journal=American Anthropologist |language=en |volume=100 |issue=4 |pages=957–966 |doi=10.1525/aa.1998.100.4.957 |issn=0002-7294}}</ref>
|Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus, Madagascan pygmy hippopotamus, kilopilopitsofy, tsy-aomby-aomby, omby-rano, laloumena, mangarsahoc
|Hippo
|Madagascar
|
|-
|[[Mapinguari]]<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2006-04-01 |title=Twilight of the mammoths: Ice Age extinctions and the rewilding of America |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.43-4679 |journal=Choice Reviews Online |volume=43 |issue=8 |pages=43–4679-43-4679 |doi=10.5860/choice.43-4679 |issn=0009-4978}}</ref>
|Mapinguary
|Giant Ground Sloth or primate
|Amazons
|[[File:Megatherium americanum by sphenaphinae.png|frameless]]
|-
|[[Michigan Dogman]]<ref name=SWtD>{{Skeptoid|id=4477|number=477|date=28 July 2015|last=Hudson|first=Alison|title=Wag the Dogman|accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref>
|
|Humanoid [[dog]]
|[[Wexford County, Michigan]]
|
|-
|[[Minhocão (legendary creature)|Minhocão]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|Big Earthworm
|[[Caecilian]]
|South America
|
|-
|[[Moa#Claims of survival|Moa]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=kreidler |first=Marc |date=2017-05-26 |title=The New Zealand Moa: From Extinct Bird to Cryptid {{!}} Skeptical Inquirer |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/the-new-zealand-moa-from-extinct-bird-to-cryptid/ |access-date=2023-02-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>
|
|Flightless bird
|New Zealand
|
|-
|[[Mongolian death worm]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|Allghoi (or orghoi) khorkhoi
|[[Worm]]-like animal
|[[Gobi Desert]] (Asia)
|[[File:Allghoikhorkhoi.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Monkey-man of Delhi]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|Black Monkey
|Big black [[monkey]]
|[[Old Delhi]], India
|
|-
|[[Nandi bear]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Simpson |first=George Gaylord |date=1984 |title=Mammals and Cryptozoology |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/986487 |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |volume=128 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |jstor=986487 |issn=0003-049X}}</ref>
|Chemosit, Kerit, Koddoelo, Ngoelo, Ngoloko, Duba
|Large carnivore
|Eastern Africa
|
|-
|[[Queensland tiger|Queensland Tiger]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Malcolm |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36719441 |title=Bunyips & bigfoots : in search of Australia's mystery animals |date=1996 |publisher=Millennium Books |isbn=1-86429-081-1 |location=Alexandria, NSW |oclc=36719441}}</ref>
|Yarri
|Large feline
|[[Queensland]]
|
|-
|[[Thylacine#Searches and unconfirmed sightings|Thylacine]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Loxton |first=Daniel |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854902238 |title=Abominable science! : origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids |date=2013 |others=Donald R. Prothero |isbn=978-0-231-52681-4 |location=New York |oclc=854902238}}</ref>
|Tasmanian Tiger, Tasmanian Wolf
|Marsupial
|Australia, New Guinea
|[[File:Thylacinus.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|[[Zanzibar leopard]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Zanzibar Leopard Between Science and Cryptozoology {{!}} PDF {{!}} Panthera {{!}} Organisms |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/14568104/The-Zanzibar-Leopard-between-Science-and-Cryptozoology |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=Scribd |language=en}}</ref>
|
|Large feline
|Zanzibar
|[[File:Panthera pardus adersi.jpg|frameless]]
|}

====[[Hominid]]====

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#115a6c;"
! Name
! Other names
! Description
! Purported location
! Depiction
|-
|[[Almas (cryptozoology)|Almas]]<ref name="EncyclopediaofPseudoscience" />
|Abnauayu, almasty, albasty, bekk-bok, biabin-guli, golub-yavan, gul-biavan, auli-avan, kaptar, kra-dhun, ksy-giik, ksy-gyik, ochokochi, mirygdy, mulen, voita, wind-man, Zana
|Non-human [[ape]] or [[Hominidae|hominid]]
|Asia/[[Caucasus]]
|
|-
|[[Amomongo]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227150037/http://news.abs-cbn.com/classified-odd/06/16/08/amomongo-frightens-villagers-negros |title='Amomongo' frightens villagers in Negros |work=ABS-CBN News}}</ref>
|Orang Mawas, Impakta
|[[Ape]] or [[Hominidae|hominid]]
|[[Negros Occidental]], Philippines
|
|-
|[[Barmanou]]{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
|Barmanu, Big Hairy One
|[[Ape]] or [[Hominidae|hominid]]
|Middle East/Asia
|
|-
|[[Bigfoot]]{{sfn|Loxton|Prothero|2013|pp=29–70}}
|Sasquatch
|Large and hairy ape-like creature
|United States and Canada
|[[File:Pie Grande.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Chuchunya]]<ref name="Bigfootandbeyond">{{cite news |last=O'Carroll |first=Eoin |date=28 September 2018 |title=Bigfoot and beyond: Why tales of wild men endure |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2018/0928/Bigfoot-and-beyond-Why-tales-of-wild-men-endure |work=The [[Christian Science Monitor]] |access-date=11 December 2018}}</ref>
|
|Large [[Hominidae|hominid]]
|Russia
|-
|[[Fouke Monster]]<ref>{{Skeptoid|id=4404|number=404|date=4 March 2014|last=Dunning|first=B.|title=The Boggy Creek Monster|accessdate=1 September 2021}}</ref>
|Jonesville Monster, Southern Sasquatch, Boggy Creek Monster
|[[Hominidae|Hominid]] or other [[primate]]
|[[Arkansas]], United States
|
|-
|[[Honey Island Swamp monster]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Frances |first1=Leary |title=The Honey Island Swamp Monster: The Development and Maintenance of Folk and Commodified Belief Tradition |date=December 2003 |issue=[[Memorial University of Newfoundland]] |pages=4–6 |url=https://research.library.mun.ca/10863/1/Leary_Frances.pdf |access-date=18 March 2021}}</ref>
|Letiche, Tainted Keitre
|[[Hominidae|Hominid]] or other [[primate]]
|[[Louisiana]], United States
|
|-
|[[Orang Pendek]]
|
|Small hominid
|Sumatra
|
|-
|[[Nittaewo]]<ref name=":0" />
|Nittevo
|Small hominids
|Sri Lanka
|
|-
|[[Skunk ape]]<ref name="CalebRousseau"/>
|Stink Ape, Myakka Ape, Myakka Skunk Ape
|[[Primate]]
|[[Florida]], United States
|
|-
|[[Yeren]]<ref name="IrishExaminer">{{cite web |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/its-the-monstrous-new-trend-sweeping-travel-what-is-cryptid-tourism-873583.html |title=It's the monstrous new trend sweeping travel – what is cryptid-tourism? |publisher=[[Irish Examiner]] |access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="CalebRousseau">{{cite book|author-first1=Caleb W. |author-last1=Lack |author-first2=Jacques |author-last2=Rousseau |title=Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience: Why We Can't Trust Our Brains |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Miy2CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 |date=8 March 2016 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing Company]] |isbn=978-0-8261-9426-8 |page=170}}</ref>
|Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman
|[[Primate]] (possible [[hominin]])
|China
|
|-
|[[Yeti]]{{sfn|Loxton|Prothero|2013|p=73}}
|Abominable Snowman
|Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions
|[[Himalayas]] (Asia)
|[[File:B5bugerbear.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Yowie]]<ref name=":0">{{cite book|author-first1=Caleb W. |author-last1=Lack |author-first2=Jacques |author-last2=Rousseau |title=Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience: Why We Can't Trust Our Brains |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Miy2CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA154 |date=8 March 2016 |publisher=Springer Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-8261-9426-8 |page=154}}</ref>
|
|Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions
|Australia
|[[File:Yowie-statue-Kilcoy-Queensland.JPG|180px]]
|}

=== Flying ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- style="background:#115a6c;"
! Name
! Other names
! Description
! width=300|Purported location
! Depiction
|-
|[[Ivory-billed woodpecker]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Michaels |first=Mark |date=2021 |title=Looking for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in eastern Cuba |url=http://jco.birdscaribbean.org/index.php/jco/article/download/1301/992 |journal=Journal of Caribbean Ornithology |volume=34 |pages=79–80}}</ref>
|
|Woodpecker
|[[Arkansas]], [[Louisiana]], and [[Florida]]
|[[File:Ivory-billed_Woodpecker_by_Jerry_A._Payne.jpg|frameless]]
|-
|[[Jersey Devil]]<ref name=bbctravel>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151029-the-monster-you-should-never-find |title=The monster you should never find |first=S.J. |last=Velasquez |date=31 October 2015 |work=[[BBC Online]] |publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=11 August 2018}}</ref>
|Leeds Devil
|[[Wing]]ed [[bipedal]] [[horse]]
|United States, mainly the [[South Jersey]] [[Pine Barrens (New Jersey)|Pine Barrens]], as well as other parts of [[New Jersey]] and southeastern [[Pennsylvania]]
|[[File:Jersey Devil Philadelphia Post 1909.jpg|180px]]
|-
|[[Mothman]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kantrowitz |first1=Lia |last2=Fitzmaurice |first2=Larry |last3=Terry |first3=Josh |title=People Keep Seeing the Mothman in Chicago |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/paqv9z/mothman-sightings-in-chicago |website=[[Vice (media)|Vice]] |access-date=26 April 2019 |date=16 January 2018}}</ref>
|Winged Man, Bird Man, UFO-Bird, Mason Bird Monster
|Winged [[bipedal]]
|[[Mason County, West Virginia|Mason County]], [[West Virginia]], United States
|[[File:Mothman Artist's Impression.png|180px]]
|-
|[[Thunderbird (mythology)|Thunderbird]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/thunderbirds/ |title=Thunderbirds |first=Noah |last=Nez |date=18 July 2012 |publisher=Skeptical Inquirer |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-mythic-child-stealing-thunderbirds-of-illinois |title=The mythic child-stealing Thunderbirds of Illinois |date=5 August 2015 |publisher=[[Atlas Obscura]] |access-date=11 December 2018}}</ref>
|
|Giant bird
|North America
|[[File:Vintage Thunderbird latch hooked rug.jpg|180px]]
|}

== See also ==
* ''[[Animalia Paradoxa]]''
* [[Fearsome critters]]
* [[Legendary creature]]
* [[List of cryptozoologists]]
* [[Lists of legendary creatures]]
* [[List of megafauna discovered in modern times]]
* [[List of urban legends]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book |last1=Loxton |first1=Daniel |title=Abominable Science: Origins of Yeti, Nessie, and other Famous Cryptids |last2=Prothero |first2=Donald |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-231-52681-4}}

== External links ==
* {{wiktionary-inline|cryptid}}
* {{commons-inline|Cryptozoology}}

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