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What suggested answers to the identity of the cryptid could be out there right now, prowling the jungles of Iriomote Island? Images.

Read: Yamapikarya – Part 2 »

While the Iriomote wildcat is no longer a cryptid, there have long been stories and rumors of another type of larger cat living deep in the remote, mist shrouded jungles of the island. Images.

Read: Yamapikarya – Part 1 »

Details have emerged about a mysterious large felid seen in the high-altitude grasslands around Anamudi, the highest peak south of the Himalayas. Images.

Read: Pogeyan: New Mystery Cat »

News about a new species (Paradoxurus stenocephalus) and resurrected another hardly-mentioned civet (Paradoxurus montanus). Images.

Read: New Civet Discoveries »

What is the meaning of the term “panther” and what animals can be called a “panther”? Why is the term so frequently used for mystery cat cryptids? Images.

Read: What Is A Panther? »

There’s a new flap underway. Take the Cryptomundo challenge: Visit some Bay Area parks and bring back a few good photographs. Besides sharing examples of recent sightings, here is a virtual guide to the “best-chance parks” to visit to observe these Mystery Cats.

Read: California’s Black Panthers »

“I observed what appeared to be a large cat, tan/grayish in color, rear hindquarters with a long bushy tail with a darkish tip,” says the eyewitness.

Read: New NY Panther Sighting »

The cat has been spotted along Alaska’s Glenn Highway, but the most recent report came yesterday from employees at the Salvation Army’s Clitheroe Center near Point Woronzof.

Read: Alaska’s Spotted Mystery Cat »

Could this new photograph be related to a new species of cat, still to be described, which was first seen two years ago in Peru? Image.

Read: New Wild Cat Species in Ecuador? »

A team of Japanese adventurers reports they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

Read: Japanese Team Finds Yeti Footprints In Nepal »

Two pictures speak a couple thousand words. Images.

Read: Louisiana Confirms Cougars With Photos »

How much can you rely on the background facts apparently noted in a newspaper in India or a foreword in a book to tell us what famed mountain gorilla researcher George B. Schaller thinks about Bigfoot?

Read: Is George Schaller A Cryptozoologist? »

The new premier of Australia’s New South Wales is convinced something is out there and the mysterious animals may warrant investigation. Images.

Read: Blue Mountains Panthers Taken Seriously »

The Associated Press carries an article today, in essence, saying the belief in the Yeti is on a decline in Bhutan as it becomes modernized. Here are some snippets from “Losing the Yeti in Forgotten Nation of Bhutan,” by Tim Sullivan: In the West, yeti-like creatures long ago were reduced to myth. The Abominable Snowman […]

Read: Yeti News »

Travel with me today, from the concept of prehistoric trunked animals to the future establishment of Pleistocene Parks in Siberia and America. Regarding artist William Munns’ reconstruction theories about trunked dinosaurs, he observes, “In the matter of comparative anatomy with existent species, no existent skulls are identical, but two types do have nares at the […]

Read: Saigas, Mammoths, and Pleistocene Parks »