A symposium at the Bates College Museum of Art this weekend relates the visual arts to cryptozoology, the study of unknown, rumored or hidden animals. Treating issues of cryptozoology, science and art ...

LEWISTON, Maine --As a cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman rarely gets to play the straight man at meetings with his fellow scientists. "I had to put up with people saying, 'Oh, you're the one who believes ...

Anyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the “study of hidden animals,” should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal ...

Cryptozoology sits in that curious space between folklore and field notes. The people who chase it keep showing up with maps, boots, and big questions. The following are 15 cryptozoologists whose ...

Step into Maine’s strangest museum, where Bigfoot, mermaids, and legendary creatures come together in one unforgettable, ...

The study of extremely rare or mythical creatures like Bigfoot, called cryptozoology, is generally considered a fringe science, lacking the type of robust analysis required to appear in peer-reviewed ...

Whether for a bit of fun, or because they genuinely believe that she exists, thousands of people go in search of Nessie, or the Loch Ness Monster every year. In fact, in a post from 2024, the Loch ...

Often considered a marginalized science or a farcical adventure, the practice of cryptozoology is the quest for unknown, rumored or hidden animals. Its most notorious pursuits include the Loch Ness ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On the 12th July 2011, the ZSL (= Zoological ...

Chippewa River District Library welcomes cryptozoologist and expert on mysterious creatures Shetan Noir, for a talk on the elusive and intriguing world of lake monsters. The event is planned to take ...

All forms of science are reliant on facts, hard evidence and statistics to maintain relevance and credibility. But what of the legitimacy of the so-called “pseudosciences”? A warning: I’m going to ...