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GENERAL CRYPTOZOOLOGY LINKS on the web
Skepdic.com
The Virtual Insitute of Cryptozoology This is the best cryptoz site on the Net! It's run by French cryptozoologist Michel Raynal and so much of it is still available only in French. However, a lot has been translated into English and an English version is available. This page is huge, and has nice pics, great articles and features, recent news and more. Excellent page!
The People Behind Cryptozoology This is a list of many of the cryptozoology personalities, dead and alive, who have fundamentally changed the direction cryptozoology has headed over the years. Coleman, Loren. Loren Coleman is one of the world's leading cryptozoologists. Coleman has written several...
An annotated listing of books and other resources relevant to paranormal and fringe science topics, mainly from a skeptical point of view. Helpful for exploring weirdness without necessarily accepting paranormal beliefs. What is SAL?
The Study of Anthropoid Life forms (SAL) studies recent stories about sightings of supposedly human-like life forms in the media and literature.
All around the World there are old folktales about human-like apparitions. These tales are about fish-, bird-, bear, wolf-, and ape-people or other creatures whose physiology are like humans. These stories can be explained with folks belief, symbolism and other psychosocial factors.
Penguins, dolfins, seacows, kangaroos, basilisks, divers ape- and bearspecies, but also humans with a physical or mental hanicap, are seen as the origin of these mythical manbeings.
But for the recent stories, about hairy manbeings and humanoids supposedly comming from unknown flying ships, a sound explanation failed to come in the last fifty years.
These supposedly human-like creatures are known under the popular collective noun humanoids. The scientific name is anthropoids.
Cryptos Web site for this French cryptozoology magazine.
The Talk.Origins Archive Extremely informative and comprehensive site dedicated to the debate between evolutionists and creationists. This is important to cryptozoology because many creationists take cryptozoological claims as evidence for their own ends (a flawed approach, in my opinion), and many people investigating cryptozoological claims are creationists.
Cryptozoology.Com Page on general cryptozoology, including some research by its webmaster on a Mexican lake monster.
The Bestiary Nice page with info on mythical creatures as well as cryptids.
Lost Worlds Exhibition cryptozoology - the study or search for previously unknown or hidden animals. The tiny trawler bounced and pitched in the choppy gray sea. On deck the fishermen pulled in the net filled with another catch. Up at the helm the boat's skipper could see, in the distance, the...
LINKS CRYPTOZOOLOGY.COM ORGANIZATIONS / ASSOCIATIONS / PUBLICATIONS International Society of Cryptozoology The British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club Website Virtual Institute of Cryptozoology (WARNING: JAVA ON FRONT PAGE) The Anomalist A Print and Web Journal...
Tirwen's Cryptozoology Page The Rock Ness Monster and Jessica W. Cryptozoology is, literally, the study of hidden animals. You might consider it the illegitimate child of paranormal sciences and zoology.
Angela MittelstaedtEnglish 105HDr. Charlotte Thralls21 November 1997Within the broad range of investigative science lies a littleknown and controversial field called cryptozoology. Essentially,this realm of zoology is all about discovering the unknown wonders ofthe animal kingdom. The field...
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature Ever heard of the wasp Olemistus chewbacca? This is a great site listing many hilarious or otherwise interesting scientific names of organisms. Who says scientists don't have a sense of humour?
Zoological Miscellania This page is run by Chad Arment, a Ohioan herpetologist with an interest in cryptozoology and biological mysteries. This page has lots of interesting info on all sorts of interesting topics, including of course, cryptozoology.
Note: we have Specific pages dedicated to the following Cryptozoology animals-beings.
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