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thereareeyesinsidethetrees · 4 months ago

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okay so here's something ae'm genuinely curious about-

-when talking about, for example, the megalodon, a lot folks say stuff like 'proof the megalodon exists'

-a lot of extinct animals are apparently considered cryptids by some

so where's the line drawn

cause for voie it's like. if you've got a sauropod in your background, yeah, you can probably call that a cryptid. if you've got an ivory-billed woodpecker flying around, that's not a cryptid. it's just not. maybe a long time from now, but certainly not right now

the megalodon thing is especially interesting for us, just because with the cryptid thing we at least kinda see why some folks might consider any extinct animal that's found alive a cryptid, but ae genuinely don't know why folks say 'proof the megalodon exists'

we know it exists. we have fossils of its jaws and teeth and other evidence it existed. like, yeah, it's not around anymore, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. are we missing something. it feels like we're missing something. are we overthinking this too much. do other folks not think this hard about stuff like that

#(the first one is more personal cause if ae'm going to watch a video about cryptids ae'm looking for a video about cryptids #the last conclusive sighting of an ivory billed woodpecker was in the early 1900s #'they caught what sounded like an ivory billed woodpecker call. could the cryptid still be alive?'#it didn't go extinct that long ago! at most it was still alive up until the late 1800s!#'oh but it's hidden to science!!' it is tOO EARLY-#AGGGHHHHHHH #y'wanna know why a sauropod or plesiosaur being around today would be considered a cryptid?#because it was alive millions of years ago and the environments it inhabited have changed a LOT since then #for a plesiosaur to be found- just like it was back then- alive today. that would be weird. there would be a lot of questions about that #you would expect it to change over time in response to the changes in its environment #you can't apply that. to an ivory billed woodpecker. its environment hasn't changed enough for it to be strange finding it alive today #anyway that was a rant and a half. let us know your thoughts on that. maybe we're wrong and cryptids are unknown/hidden to science #including ever extinct species ever. idk)

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