Cryptozoology is the study of hidden animals, with the animals studied referred to as cryptids, a term coined in 1983 by John Wall. The are two fields of study in Cryptozoology: * The search for living examples of animals identified through fossil records and believed extinct.
*The search for animals for which anecdotal records exist in the form of myths, legends, or undocumented sightings.
Mainstream science doesn’t much support Cryptozoology as it tends not to employ the scientific method. Conventional science does accept, however, that there are thousands of species yet to be identified, with most of them likely to be invertebrates.
We who want to believe, however, would die happy if one of the major cryptids were discovered in our lifetimes, say Bigfoot or Nessie! In this hope, I offer this little poem:
Cry of the Cryptids
I’m a Cryptid.– Who are you? — Are you another Cryptid, too?
Then there’s two of us. –Don’t tell!
They’d publicize us, you know.
How dreary to be known!–How public, like a frog!
To be exploited, skinned, worn, or eaten
By those in the hyooman bog!
(With apologies to Emily Dickinson)
FOXSYLVANIA 
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