What I think is really cool are the things that would have been considered cryptids if anyone had thought of them, like the 5-foot frugivorous monitor lizard!
Like many 'new discoveries", this animal was well known to the locals, but hadn't been cataloged by science.
Of the true cryptids, I have to think that a whopping huge goanna (spelling?) in the Outback would be the most likely. The Aborigines claim there are big ones out there, or were in their grandfathers' time anyway. And I look at all those camels as a lot of meat with no apparent predators, and I wonder...
Sure would be fun to find, wouldn't it?
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