[mysterio]

Unfortunately, they've been extinct since the beginning of the Pleistocene epoch.

Here's the problem with cryptozoology :

If some ancient organism (like a dinosaur) has survived, it can't be just one. It has to be a population of them. So that means not just one Nessie in Loch Ness. That means a bunch of them. A bunch of massive birds / pleisaurs / dragons / bigfeet can't remain undetected. One might be able to. But not a population of them.

The only ancient organisms you're going to find are going to be in places where humans aren't, like the bottom of the ocean. They're not trotting around the backwoods of Washington state.

I spent my whole childhood reading books about this stuff. Space monsters included. It all boiled down to a bunch of hoaxes.

[Quix]

In how many other areas of your life . . .

have you tended to throw out

the baby with the bathwater?