Originally Posted by
MikeG
So would claims of an extant thylacine not be cryptid-ic?
Mike
Hmmm. Does a creature, known to have existed but which becomes extinct, qualify as a cryptid if people then claim to still see it?
And what if it is then actually rediscovered and its existence confirmed?
This happened with a fish called a Coelocanth. They were once known only from the fossil record; believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous, until a fisherman caught one off the east coast of South Africa in 1938.