Some cryptids are real

It is very tempting to believe that mythical creatures exist. In childhood, children would watch movies like "The Little Mermaid," "The Princess and the Goblin," and others that would open a child's mind that there is more to the world. From Disney's fairy tales, to the original Grimm's Fairy Tales, it pushes the reader to believe that the world is a large and scary place. In olden time, strong religious believers viewed that the forests, or sea creatures are the works of evil. During that time, there might have been many creatures that humans did not understand and even feared. Today, scientists, biologists, explorers now know that creatures, known or unknown, have a beautiful purpose in this world. Creatures under the Cryptic category include Bigfoot, Loch Ness monster, mermaids, dragons, unicorns, a hybrid of two different species, the kraken, the list goes on and on. There is a branch of Zoologists called Cryptology, "study of hidden animals," which refers to search for animals whose existence has neither been able to be proved or disproved. There are thousands upon thousands of eyewitness accounts of seeing all types of unexplainable creatures. There are still a lot of places on Earth that have been rarely or never been discovered, explored, or understood. My first argument is that even if we have not discovered hidden places, human technology and satellites have a better chance picking up anything that moves. If a massive sea serpent had conspicuously emerged, it is safe to say that satellites all over the world would be able to pick it up. Harriet Ritvo author of, The Platypus and the Mermaid, said that "since sea serpents were never either captured or counterfeited, there pretensions could not be exposed to the standards of the laboratory." So there is no concrete evidence or proof that monstrous creatures, like the sea serpents, exists. My second argument is that there is no doubt that there are still new species of animals to discover. The problem is that what people see, like Loch Ness or giant octopus, may be a new species that they do not understand. Humans fear what they do not know, so they come up with freighting creatures to match the profile of the unknown. I was watching a discovery program about ancient archeology. It portrayed that ancient Greeks and ancient Romans loved to dig, and like archaeologists today, they uncovered bones of extinct species. These species include dinosaurs, mammoths, and other prehistoric animals. Since they did not know this, they produced myths and legends to explain the bones, like Cyclops, and other mystical creatures that dominate Greek mythology. Today is no different, we explain the unknown by calling them monsters. It is a fact that "late-eighteenth-century naturalists tentatively described the newly discovered platypus as an amalgam of bird, reptile, and mammal," (Ritvo, p 132). New creatures are intimidating but we might be mistaking them for monsters. I do not doubt that there are new creatures that scientists and explorers have not yet discovered, but it does not mean they are the iconic, boat and people-eating, fire-breathing monsters myth had portrayed them to be over the years.