Comments on: Cryptid http://www.cryptozoonews.com/cryptid/ Posts by Loren Coleman Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Loren Coleman http://www.cryptozoonews.com/cryptid/comment-page-1/#comment-563 Loren Coleman Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:36:17 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/cryptid/#comment-563 Heuvelmans usually discussed cryptids as animals that were large enough to have an impact on humans, thus they were animals the size of dogs and cats, and bigger.

Ethnoknown is an important factor, and many of these examples (e.g. the coelacanth) were known by the locals. Debate between supporters and skeptics is not significant in determining if a cryptid is ethnoknown.

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