Sunbathing Thylacines. Source/date Unknown.

Bessie (Lake Erie Cow Monster or Lorain Ocean’s Lake Monster)

Described as looking like a cow and having multiple heads in some sightings (yes you read that correctly). Sightings around Lake Erie started in 1907 and have continued ever since with sometimes basic or stranger description of the creature. One of the weirder descriptions was made by two brothers in 1937 as a creature made up of a hundred cows combined into one with arms.

Tasmanian Tiger Thylacinus cynocephalus Source: Here

Fun Fact: The Tasmanian Tiger was the largest carnivorous marsupial in modern times.

THE BLACK SHUCK OF COLTISHALL BRIDGE

Late one night, between 1960 and 1962, two RAF officers were travelling by car back from Norwich to RAF Coltishall. Passing over Coltishall Bridge, which straddles the River Bure, they were forced to break as an enormous black dog crossed the road. It slowly turned its head and glared at them and then vanished near the other side of the road. Its build was like a Labrador, only level with the roof of their car (1.35 metres or 53 inches in height). A perfectly proportioned giant black dog.

Another encounter took place in the same area in the 1950s, when a woman and her husband were parked on the Coltishall Bridge at nightfall and saw a black dog about the size of a pony, walking towards them, that then suddenly vanished before reaching the other side of the road.

Yet another encounter was experienced by a man and a woman who swear that a Black Shuck passed them one evening on Coltishall Bridge. They initially heard its footfalls and heavy breathing and turned sharply to see the creature approaching them.

A final sighting was made again on Coltishall Bridge, this time by a middle-aged couple. The man was striking a match to light his wife's cigarette when a Black dog the size of a Calf, noiselessly, passed within a foot of them.

Convergent evolution: Dasyuromorphia and Carnivora

The Encyclopedia of Animal Evolution, 1987

Ghosts from the past! Dodo, Tasmanian Tiger, Quagga, and Great Auk

Loch Ness Monster Plushie!

A classic cryptid, this rendition of Nessie even has her own little tam o' shanter!

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Benjamin, the last Thylacine photographed by Dr. David Fleay in it’s tiny pen at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, December 19th 1933

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pet peeve of mine is people laughing at this w/out knowing this is literally how the bigfoot looks in the famous footage. xfiles didn’t make this up bigfoot has always had huge boobs