Real or Legend, What's Your Favorite Cryptid?
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Top: coelacanth. I chose the drawing as it shows the best detail.
Bottom: Oarfish. They are long like a snake with a "filament" crest. Dorsal fin goes length of the body.
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Top: Leafy dragon. I know nothing about it.
Bottom: Komodo dragon taking a walk on the beach.
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My favorite proven ones are Komodos, platapusses and achidnas, any mammal who lays eggs is good with me, that is so cool. And any animal that people thought was extinct but then found again, like the fish you showed above, can't spell it.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Nile crocs are special. They look like tree-bark floating in the water.
I love that leafy green fish. Never saw one before!
We have a huge grey cat who reminds me of that K. dragon. Or a big, fat bear.
Modern-day birds are easily seen as having evolved from dinos. When I have that thought and look at one I experience a perceptual shift which seems to explain a number of things about birds and may help with dinos as well.
We are now discovering colored feathers on dino fossils. I'm eager to see more re-visualizations of these creatures, having been familiar since childhood with a) bare bones and b) leather-couch-style finishing.
bun
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Top: Echidna = spiny anteater
Low left: mokele-mbembe of the Congo
Low right: Hummingbird moth = Hemaris sp.
Sorry. I've not yet found a photo of the real dino.
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I love hummingbird moths! A lot of people don't know what they are and get all confused when they spot one. Then they call up the all-night flying saucer show and ask if they're aliens.
That Echidna is really cute. No-o-ot quite pettable, though.
For goodness' sake, no photos of dinos? We have the intertubes at our fingertips, and improved searching all the time!!1!
bun
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Mokele-mbembe: The Living Dinosaur! => http://www.mokelembembe.com/
This page tells all about the beastie.
1 April 2011 - Darren Naish's blog => http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2011/04/science_meets_mokele-m
bembe.php
"After decades of searching, Africa's mystery Congolese swamp monster,
the Mokele-Mbembe, has been discovered - it is a living sauropod dinosaur"
This article is long with a lotta pictures. It starts fairly
well, but skimming down, I soon realized that the fellow is having us on.
It was, after all, the day for it.
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I think the Hellbender is interesting, if nothing else just because it's so weird it deserved such an awesome name. One aquarium that was supposed to have it didn't, and another had the habitat soo dark it was impossible to see it.
I'd love to see one up close.
The other thing that sticks in my head is the Blobfish, as it looks like it should be able to carry on some innane conversation about shoelaces or umbrellas for HOURS.
Also the Dumbo Octopus, because it looks surrealistically like a Pokemon...
BTW, We had a hawk hit our living room window today, flying at an angle to get something, and it hit soo hard it left a streak, and I thought the window was gonna break. Nature loves wacky-ness!
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The latest news is that human-ish bones which have been kicking around in a museum drawer for 30 years may be their own separate line.
bun
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