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There’s an interesting opinion piece over on the London Times’ website entitled “Creatures that inhabit our guilty conscience” which examines the growth of cryptozoology as a response to species extinction and the shrinkage of spaces on the map marked by the words “here be dragons:”
Cryptozoology – the study of species sighted by explorers or recorded in folklore but unverified by formal science – is booming. In recent years there ... Continue reading Is Cryptozoology a Defense Mechanism?