Hard to believe a giant, pink lizard could be overlooked

[Kai]

Not that it applies in this case, but one of my favorite zoology phenomena is where a native group will insist an animal exists, and zoologists are all "Nuh-uh!"

...and it goes on like this for a couple of hundred years, until a zoologist actually goes and looks where the natives said to look, and is all "Holy shit, this legendary creature actually exists!"

No fuck, dipwad.

Honestly, that sort of thing happens less and less.

It would have to, given how few "primitive" human populations are left.

That, and the anthropological acceptance that "primitive" culture is as complex as western culture. The word ethnobotany gets thrown around quite a bit these days.

I know the particular one you're thinking of though, the one I mentioned here about a tiny species of snake on an island in either central or south america that the natives had known about for years but science had not yet catalogued. Science these days pays much closer attention to this sort of thing.

[Richter]

Next week it will turn out that the Mokele-mbembe is in fact living in a flat in Kinshasa, holding down a job as a traffic warden.

And Chubacabra was Enrico on a bender.