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The Jersey Devil Is Ready For Its Close-Up

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Black and while illustration of the Jersey Devil, a winged creature with the head of a horse, as depicted in the TV docu-series "Monster Chronicles"
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The Jersey Devil Is Ready For Its Close-Up

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Detail from a Renaissance illustration of sea monsters
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Here Be Sea Monsters

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Photo of a coelacanth underwater
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When a Species Rises From the Dead: The Lazarus Taxon

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William Katt and Sean Young with a dinosaur puppet in Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
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Bringing Up Cryptids — Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

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An outdated model of a sauropod as shown in MonsterQuest; illustration by paleo-artist Neave Parker
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MonsterQuest Hunts the Mokele-Mbembe

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Illustration depicting a brontosaurus as an aquatic creature
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A Creature From the Jungles of Africa: Tales of the Mokele-Mbembe

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Phascolarctos cinereus -ZooParc de Beauval, France. Author frank wouters (CC-BY), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31676385
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A Brief Interlude Down Under: Cryptids, Australian Style

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Illustration from Jenny Wagner’s The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek; art by Ron Brooks
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Cryptids for Kids: The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek and Hector’s Bunyip

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Illustration of a "bunyip" from Childhood in Bud and Blossom; art by C.D. Richardson, 1900
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A Beast of Myriad Forms: Researching the Bunyip

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Black and white illustration of a "bunyip", a creature described in Australian folklore
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Australia’s Ancestral Cryptid: The Bunyip

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Image of a CGI crocodile from the TV movie Lake Placid vs Anaconda
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A Study in Monster-Movie Tropes: Lake Placid vs. Anaconda

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A giant snake attacks a boat in a scene from Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
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Monsters in the Jungle: Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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