List of cryptids

Cryptids are animals or other beings whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science. Cryptozoology, the study of cryptids, is a pseudoscience claiming that such beings may exist somewhere in the wild; it has been widely critiqued by scientists. The subculture is regularly criticized for reliance on anecdotal information and because in the course of investigating animals that most scientists believe are unlikely to have existed, cryptozoologists do not follow the scientific method. Many scientists have criticized the plausibility of cryptids due to lack of physical evidence, likely misidentifications and misinterpretation of stories from folklore. While biologists regularly identify new species following established scientific methodology, cryptozoologists focus on entities mentioned in the folklore record and rumor.

List

Aquatic or semi-aquatic

Name	Other names	Description	Purported location	Depiction
'	Hairy Eel	Pond animal	Pamital ravine, Canary Islands
Bunyip	Bahnyip	Amphibious creature	Australia
'	Caddy	Sea animal	Pacific Coast of North America
Champ	Champy	Lake monster	Lake Champlain, North America
Cryptid Whales	Giglioli's Whale, Rhinoceros dolphin, High-finned sperm whale, Alula whale, Unidentified beaked whales	Sea animal	Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean
Dobhar-chú	Water Hound, King Otter	Extra-large otter-like carnivorous aquatic mammal	Ireland
Gloucester sea serpent		Large serpent	Gloucester, Cape Ann
Great auk (surviving populations)	Pinguinus impennis, garefowl	Aquatic flightless bird	Northern Atlantic
Iemisch	Iemisch Listai	Mix of a jaguar and otter	Patagonia
Igopogo	Kempenfelt Kelly	Lake monster	Lake Simcoe, Ontario
Labynkyr Devil	Labynkyrsky Chert	Lake monster	Oymyakonsky Ulus, Sakha Republic, Russia
Loch Ness Monster	Nessie	Lake monster	Loch Ness, Scotland
Loveland Frog	Loveland frogman, Loveland lizard	Humanoid frog	Loveland, Ohio
Manipogo	Winnipogo	Lake monster	Lake Manitoba, Canada
Megalodon (surviving populations)	Otodus megalodon	Giant prehistoric shark	Oceans
Mermaid		Top half human female and bottom half fish	Oceans, various bodies of water
Mokele-mbembe		Dinosaur	Republic of the Congo
Montauk Monster		Small bald beaked mammal	Montauk, Long Island, NY
Morgawr		Sea serpent	Falmouth Bay
Ogopogo	N'ha•a•itk, Naitaka	Lake monster	Lake Okanagan, Canada
Oklahoma Octopus		giant octopus	Lake Thunderbird, Oklahoma, USA
Sea serpents		Sea animals, dinosaurs	All bodies of water
Selma	Seljordsormen	Lake monster	Lake Seljord, Telemark, Norway
Steller's sea ape		Sea animal	Pacific Ocean

Terrestrial

[Hominid]

Name	Other names	Description	Purported location	Depiction
Almas	Abnauayu, almasty, albasty, bekk-bok, biabin-guli, golub-yavan, gul-biavan, auli-avan, kaptar, kra-dhun, ksy-giik, ksy-gyik, ochokochi, mirygdy, mulen, voita, wind-man, Zana	Non-human ape or hominid	Asia/Caucasus
Amomongo	Orang Mawas, Impakta	Ape or hominid	Negros Occidental, Philippines
Bigfoot	Sasquatch	Large and hairy ape-like creature	United States and Canada
Bukit Timah Monkey Man	BTM, BTMM	Forest-dwelling hominid or other primate	Singapore
Chatawa Monster		Large ape-like creature	Mississippi, United States
Chuchunya		Large hominid	Russia
De Loy's Ape	Ameranthropoides loysi	Bipedal, erect-walking primate - slightly under 5 feet of height	South America,
Fouke Monster	Jonesville Monster, Southern Sasquatch, Boggy Creek Monster	Hominid or other primate	Arkansas, United States
Honey Island Swamp monster	Letiche, Tainted Keitre	Hominid or other primate	Louisiana, United States
Kandahar Giant		13 feet tall red-headed man with six fingers on each hand and two rows of teeth	Kandahar, Afghanistan
Mapinguari	Mapinguary	man-eating hominid with a mouth in its adbomen; sometimes thought to be a ground sloth	Brazil
Nittaewo	Nittevo	Small hominids	Sri Lanka
Orang Pendek		Small hominid	Sumatra
Skunk ape	Stink Ape, Myakka Ape, Myakka Skunk Ape	Primate	Florida, United States
Yeren	Yiren, Yeh Ren, Chinese Wildman	Primate	China
Yeti	Abominable Snowman	Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions	Himalayas
Yowie		Large and hairy human-like entity, various other descriptions	Australia