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Prehistoric animals likely to be alive today?
Topic Started: Feb 26 2018, 06:57 AM (354 Views)
DinosaurMichael
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Technically in a way cryptids but there's been a number of prehistoric animals which despite extinct have been claimed by some to still be alive today. Which ones would you think has the best likely chance of being alive today?

Personal wise I'd place my bets on Mylodon and Megalania. Mylodon is an easy one because ground sloths fits the descriptions and might be the source of Mapinguari legends. The way I'd personally so it, it'd be a possibility that their ancestors could of survived today by moving into the Amazon to avoid human hunters and the Amazon being without a doubt the most unexplored region of land on earth is definitely big enough to house and hide an breeding population of these giant creatures which were around the size of black bears.

Megalania would then be my next bet. IMO Mylodon has a more likely chance of being alive being the Amazon is more unexplored then Australia but its to that point there's so much Australian underbrush in the outbacks large enough to hide such large reptiles I could see a slight possibility of it. Australia after all while not as unexplored as say the Amazon or oceans still has some areas that hasn't been set foot by man.
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K9 Bite
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Supposdly the thylaclaine still exists in Australia:

https://youtu.be/D_M-SskpGi4
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Grimace
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-MAYBE- thylacines, but not sure i'd call them prehistoric.
No way stuff like megalania still exists without us noticing though.
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Grazier
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There are a few reports in Russia of a black hairy man, makes me wonder if its denisovan man.
The bones were found there, also the DNA is in Melanesians who are occasionally born covered in black hair which they then lose. Its a phenomenon known as "irriputi" in Papua.
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Grimace
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In all liklihood though the next prehistoric thing we find out is still alive is probably going to be something smallish in the ocean that no one saw coming and most people are uninterested in.
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Taipan
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Coelacanths?

"were once known only from fossils and were thought to have gone extinct approximately 65 million years ago (mya), during the great extinction in which the dinosaurs disappeared. The most recent fossil record dates from about 80 mya but the earliest records date back as far as approximately 360 mya. At one time coelacanths were a large group comprising about 90 valid species that were distributed worldwide in both marine and freshwaters. Today, there are two known living species."

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http://vertebrates.si.edu/fishes/coelacanth/coelacanth_wider.html
Edited by Taipan, Feb 26 2018, 05:45 PM.
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