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Cryptozoology (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by merde@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe. Cryptozoologists refer to these entities as cryptids, a term coined by the subculture. Because it does not follow the scientific method, cryptozoology is considered a pseudoscience by mainstream science: it is neither a branch of zoology nor of folklore studies.

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

yea, that makes more sense.

I feel like "esoteric" field of science or the like makes a lot more sense.

While it's a small field that few serious scientists are devoted to, they used and use scientific methods to find a lot of animals previously thought to be myths.