this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
63 points (83.2% liked)
Asklemmy
45983 readers
1372 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Cryptozoology. There are definitely creatures unknown to science. Dozens of new ones are discovered every day. Loch Ness monster - no. Unknown ape - possibly.
I still like the thought that the Loch Ness monster was real, but died out. That legends grew from the real thing, and occasional real sightings, then popularized with more recent faked evidence.
Of course that doesn't mean it probably was real, just it might have been.
I just know we'll find that damned Insulindian Phasmid soon
Speaking of unknown animals. Unicorns could pretty much be real. Just imagine: We have horses, we have horned animals (even one-horned animals), it is not impossible that a horse-like animal with a horn exists.
And it's called a rhino! I do admit that I use the term horse-like rather broadly here.
They are part of the same order (broad toed ungulates) and share a common ancestor, so they are certainly related
Itβs an armored unicorn then!
Hippos π¦ aren't rhinos π¦
We even have sea unicorns, land unicorns donβt seem too far fetched.
Except all of their remains have somehow disappeared
Hunted and had their horns removed by greedy humans.
There are a fair few accounts in Tasmania about thylacines still existing. The lands are so rugged and harsh that there's not really any solid way to get in there and search. But I'll believe it, absolutely.
That is not really cryptozoology, a known real creature that we think is extinct, but if it's turns out to not be... Nothing weird here.
A lot different to claiming there is a loch Ness monster.
Many people claim the Loch Ness monster is an animal thought to be extinct though. The thylacine is generally held to be a cryptid in my experience.