It is possible that our world still be full of mysterious creatures and species of which science knows very little, or possibly nothing about. Mysteries are not just about the possibility of life on other planets, but the possibility of other forms of life on our own planet. Many scientists reject this idea, and argue that there are really no major mysteries related to our planet, but this view is difficult to accept especially as we consider the size of the oceans and seas, or the size of the planet itself. It doesn't seem possible that humans have covered actually every desert and every jungle on the land, and dived down into the bottom of every ocean and sea on earth. Due to the difficulty of believing this, it is easy to believe that there are still many mysterious creatures around us. One branch of science, cryptozoology, is focuses on the search for mysterious animals. Founded in the twentieth century by the Swiss scientist, Bernard Heuvelmans, cryptozoology, can be simply defined as the study of undiscovered animals, which people claim to have seen, or which exist in historical documents, paintings, or even legends. Although it has been attacked as unscientific by zoology, cryptozoology is responsible for the discovery of many animals, including the panda and the ape (Holden 1-2). While science believes that dinosaurs went into extinction millions of years ago, cryptozoologists are arguing against this, and have successfully provided evidence that Nessie (see Appendix) is, in fact, a species of a surviving dinosaur.
             As an area of study, cryptozoology causes a great deal of debate and in spite of cryptozoologists having discovered countless animals, and presenting evidence for many more even stranger ones, it still faces attack by zoologists and scientists. Arguments against it state that cryptozoology is based on both the imagination and a "misinterpretation of facts" (Lanier 1-2). Believing that ...