20 Unrecognizable Animals That Prove Cryptozoology Isn’t All Hype

We as people have become desensitized to all sorts of crazy things in our world. With new scientific discoveries almost monthly, and a new invention every year, there aren’t many things on this earth that surprise us anymore. But alien-like animals are still absolutely mind blowing. Cryptozoology is the idea that mystical animals like the loch ness monster and the thunderbird exist, and the animals you’re about to see explain what caused these rumors. Here are 20 unrecognizable and amazing animals.

1. No wonder people believed in the loch ness monster, this is a sturgeon.

2. We thought that was the golden gull.

3. See, thunderbirds are real.

4. We all knew bigfoot was real.

5. Supposedly the last photo of a Barbary lion, 1925.

6. The only photo ever taken of a tatzelwurm, 1934.

7. A stygian owl, or mothman?

8. Another massive bird species thought to be a thunderbird.

9. Sea serpents aren’t real, this is probably a dealfish.

10. Not the Jersey Devil, it’s the hammerhead bat.

11. If we saw this we’d sure believe in mermaids.

12. The supposed image of a skunk ape in Sarasota, FL.

13. Black bears with mange could explain reports of werewolves.

14. Can you name this cryptid animal?

15. The ogopogo photo, check out the shape of the head.

16. The deemed extinct thylacine is supposedly not extinct.

17. Little Doug, scientists couldn’t determine what he was.

18. The Japanese wolf is a cryptid of it’s own.

19. Your cryptid monster based on your state.

20. That’s no feral cat.