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  1. Hapa
    Hapa March 14, 2012 at 11:04 pm |

    This is an interesting discovery, much like the Giant Crawfish recently discovered in the south. However, what would really get the skeptics to think twice before discounting the possibility of cryptids/unknown species living in North America would be the discovery of a new species of large game, Megafauna, in the US, and not necessarily a Bigfoot or lake beast (perhaps a new species of deer, or perhaps a surviving prehistoric species, like the Stag Moose or Glyptodon. Woodland Bison were thought extinct before they were rediscovered in 20th century Canada, but it was a contemporary animal, not something that died out ages ago, and combined with the “we already documented that animal before” argument, it is still rebuffed by the skeptical elites. The latter skeptical argument would not be so believable a defense from knowledge if it was a Prehistoric Longhorn Bison or something else from remote time.). Once something remotely big and all new is found, the skeptics would have lost a argument; that its one thing to discover something small and new in North America, but another thing to discover a big animal like the Beast of Bray Road or Loveland Frogmen (The bigger they are, the harder to hide and more likely to be mythical argument).

    Until new big game is found in North America, whether a well known cryptid or something totally unknown and unexpected, skeptics will brush this discovery off as a faulty example of the possibility of Sasquatch and other large Cryptids in our own backyard, because a new frog is so much smaller than a Gorilla or Elasmosaur.

  2. flame821
    flame821 March 15, 2012 at 10:48 am |

    While I agree with Hapa regarding a large mammal being found I have to add that we won’t find anything if we don’t look. Or more precisely don’t know where/how to look. I often find that people have no concept as to how large an area the Pacific NorthWest Forest is. Google Map it sometime. It is a huge area, densely forested with little to no access in many areas. There ‘could’ be prehistoric megafauna in there and you would never know it. Ask rescue and recovery teams how hard it is to find someone in a forest, and that is a someone who WANTS to be found.

    Although I still think it is amazing that any animal in a metropolitan area went undiscovered for so long. Think about the history of the USA, the East Coast was the first to be populated by settlers, the one with the heaviest concentration of people, roads and industry and still something can go unnoticed. I just hope they manage to survive with all the crazy weather we’ve been having over the last 2-3 years.

  3. djwcaw
    djwcaw March 15, 2012 at 4:30 pm |

    Just remember there is a BIG difference in ‘discovering’ a new species of animal that was previously known but misidentified (ie this frog being assumed a leopard frog species) and finding a new animal not seen/documented before.

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