A symposium at the Bates College Museum of Art this weekend relates the visual arts to cryptozoology, the study of unknown, rumored or hidden animals. Treating issues of cryptozoology, science and art ...

Some, like the Tasmanian tiger, are considered extinct, yet sightings are still reported. Some, like the giant squid, existed only as rumors until hard evidence finally appeared. And roaming a shadowy ...

An artist's rendition of what a baby Bigfoot might look like. This is one of about 10,000 items on display at the International Cryptozoology Museum. Photo by Laura Poppick / Contents Courtesy of ...

Dr. Carl Sagan once stated that the absence of evidence does not mean that evidence is absent. Thought processes like this give hope to people seeking to find things that aren’t yet proven by science.

Have you ever wondered about undiscovered species such as Yetis, Bigfoot, mermaids, and the Loch Ness Monster? At the International Cryptozoology Museum in Maine, you can dive into the world of the ...

Anyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the “study of hidden animals,” should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal ...

(CBS News) Cryptozoology is a word many (if not most) of us have never seen before. Sort of like the legendary creatures cryptozoologists devote their lives to tracking down. Our Serena Altschul has ...

LEWISTON, Maine --As a cryptozoologist, Loren Coleman rarely gets to play the straight man at meetings with his fellow scientists. "I had to put up with people saying, 'Oh, you're the one who believes ...

IN JULY OF 1983, off the coast of New Ireland, an island some 300 miles east of New Guinea, anthropologist Roy Wagner and colleague Richard Greenwell had a close encounter with a Ri. Wagner had his ...

Sometimes we see the things that go bump in the night, sometimes we don’t. But does that mean they don’t exist? For cryptozoologists, pondering the existence of mysterious creatures is a modus ...

The study of extremely rare or mythical creatures like Bigfoot, called cryptozoology, is generally considered a fringe science, lacking the type of robust analysis required to appear in peer-reviewed ...