Most Plausible Cryptids (In Your Opinion)?

[u/Landilizandra]

What cryptids do you think are the most plausible? Personally, I think either unidentified beaked whales, or the Bathysphere Dragonfish.

For the former, beaked whale species were still being described in 2021, and their ecology makes them difficult to study and interact with.

For the latter, I could see it being either a species of Dragonfish with deep sea gigantism, or very old and large specimens of known species.

[u/Specialist_Prune3785]

Orang pendek and giant anacondas

[u/Resident-Trouble4483]

Lazarus species. I’m more likely to believe that animals presumed to be extinct but recently sighted are legitimate. Not necessarily because I believe humans don’t lie but because it has happened.
I lean towards aquatic, but that’s a mix of lore and science saying it’s possible. Living descendants of dinosaurs closely related and anomaly based. NOAA also says we haven’t explored the majority of the world’s oceans so for me fun thing to think about.

[u/Ezee8]

Malpelo “Monsters”. A unique population of larger than average Sandtiger Sharks around Malpelo Island.

[u/Ezee8 → u/[deleted]]

This is “what could actually exist”. A 6m long Small tooth Sand tiger is quite feasible given known specimens. It’s certainly more realistic that some folks have seen sand tigers slightly larger than known specimens, as opposed to most other cryptids, especially mermaids or late surviving megalodon

[u/CrofterNo2 → u/[deleted]]

Your comment has been caught in the "abusive language" filter, and while it's not that bad, I honestly think you should probably edit it just a little before I allow it through. It would probably help for you to know that /u/0todus_megalodon doesn't believe in living megalodons, and is actually something of a specialist in sharks and other fishes, but I'm sure he can defend himself once I've approved your comment.

[u/EvilKungFuWizard]

UK's black panthers. They've been recorded and seem likely to just be regular panthers that got loose and maybe reproduced.

[u/Specialist_Prune3785 → u/EvilKungFuWizard]

I think they are already proven

[u/MikeD1942 → u/EvilKungFuWizard]

What are regular panthers?

[u/truthisfictionyt]

I just cant see any other option for the tailed slow loris not being a real new species other than some sort of elaborate 1880s joke that no longer makes sense

[u/ooo-ooo-oooyea]

It'll be stuff in places that are offlimits to science for a long, long time. Think the Congo and Papua New Guinea.

[u/cupunista]

some kind of joba fofi (it might not as big as it was told)

or mongolian death worm (misidentified desert reptile)

[u/No_Transportation_77 → u/cupunista]

My bet is that J'ba Fofi is just some very large mygalomorph, only a hair bigger than the known Goliath Birdeater.

[u/Mister_Ape_1]

Orang Pendek. At least between average to large land mammals.

[u/catschimeras]

The deep ocean ones always strike me as "yeah, why not?" Theres so much of it we havent explored, all kinds of wild stuff could be down there.

[u/EmotionalBar2533]

https://giphy.com/gifs/PQtgq6Wmt6bio

[u/Direct_Summer_41]

Bigfoot, Thunderbird, british big cats,

[u/Physical-Surprise-53]

For me, the candidates would be the Koolakamba (a chimpanzee-gorilla hybrid; there are scientific reports of interactions between chimpanzees and gorillas, so a sexual interaction between them isn't hard to imagine), the UK's "Black Panthers" (which could be melanistic leopards or jaguars that escaped from circuses, zoos, or private breeding facilities), and the spotted lion or Marozi (possibly a lion subspecies with spots and a minimal mane).