The undiscovered: Cryptozology intro
Sometime I will put up what really should be going up here, my views on Bigfoot. But that will take a little time, something I am short on right now, instead I offer up this simple statement: we often have no idea of even large land animals living around us.
Case in point, the Wood Bison. Larger than the plains bison, the population was down to 250 in 1900 and was thought to be extinct by the mid-1900's. In 1957, a population was discovered in Alberta, Canada, and the population is now though to be up around 3,500, stable though still small.
The interests of cryptozoology generally focus on large animals. While scientists generally accept that we only know 40% of all species globally, most of that is either tiny things in the rainforest or tiny things in the ocean. Anything big should have been found by now, because they are easy to see. This is simply not the case.
Case in point, the Wood Bison. Larger than the plains bison, the population was down to 250 in 1900 and was thought to be extinct by the mid-1900's. In 1957, a population was discovered in Alberta, Canada, and the population is now though to be up around 3,500, stable though still small.
The interests of cryptozoology generally focus on large animals. While scientists generally accept that we only know 40% of all species globally, most of that is either tiny things in the rainforest or tiny things in the ocean. Anything big should have been found by now, because they are easy to see. This is simply not the case.
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