Do people really there are multiple 7-foot behemoths wandering around in developed First World country that have never been photographed or seen by someone that doesn’t come off as a nut, for decades?
Or that no one has come across the remains of a dead one?
Here’s a look at some of the strange new creatures identified in the last several years.
Click link to view gallery of 18 photos
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/g214/strange-new-animals-0917/
The most commonly discovered new species are typically insects, a type of animal with a high degree of biodiversity.
Newly discovered mammal species are rare, but they do occur, typically in remote places that haven’t been well studied previously.
Some animals are found to be new species only when scientists peer at their genetic code, because they look outwardly similar to another species — these are called cryptic species.
Some newfound species come from museum collections that haven’t been previously combed through and, of course, from fossils.
Read below for stories about newly discovered species, both alive on Earth today and those that once roamed the planet.
In all the time that humankind has been scientifically categorizing life, we’ve managed to get slightly fewer than 2 million species catalogued.
About 46 new species were discovered every day in 2006, according to researchers at Arizona State University’s International Institute for Species Exploration.
Some scientists say that Earth could hold as many as 100 million different species, so we still have our work cut out for us.
Most new species are small invertebrates that would be overlooked by anyone other than a scientist; however, every now and then we stumble across a new monkey, large lizard or some other incredible animal that we’ve never seen before.
Here are nine amazing newly discovered species.
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/9-newly-discovered-species/look-what-we-found
PS - I agree with you 99.99%.
Not that I think there’s even the remotest of possibilities that such a large creature as Big Foot could exist without confirmation after all this time (outside of Wash DC), but rather that there are in fact, even fairly large, new creatures discovered all the time.
I’ve watched a bigfoot documentary recently where sightings occurred in Canada. Canada has literally millions of acres of natural wild country man has never set foot on. Same with Siberia.