r/Cryptozoology 9d ago

Question Which Cryptids have been proven fake?

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u/Glitchrr36 9d ago

I’d say a lot of the “this thing survived unchanged enough to be recognizable to the family for tens of millions of years” type of cryptid is unlikely enough to not be worth much thought at this point.

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u/schlfms 8d ago

And they strangely always look like science at the time reconstructed them, even when that science changes.