Recent Cryptozoologists of the Year
Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 17th, 2011
Recent Cryptozoologists of the Year
by Loren Coleman, Director, International Cryptozoology Museum
Here is a rundown of the last four outstanding and often-unrecognized individuals who have added to the study of hidden, unknown, and new species.
Cryptozoologist of 2011: Mark Murphy
National Archives researcher Mark Murphy discovered papers detailing for the first time the United States government’s interest and attention to the search for the Abominable Snowmen or Yetis roaming the mountains of Nepal in the 1950s. Photo: Loren Coleman.
Cryptozoologist of 2010: Ngwe Lwin
Ngwe Lwin asking local people for information about a little-known new primate species, the new Mae Hka snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri), seen below, which he discovered. Photo: FFI.
Cryptozoologist of 2009: Gabriele Gentile
Italian researcher Gabriele Gentile holds a Galápagos iguana, a newly-verified pink and black species he discovered in January 2009. Photo: Gabriele Gentile
Cryptozoologist of 2008: Andrea Marshall
In 2008, after over five years of on-site work and confirming lab findings, doctorate candidate Andrea Marshall identified the giant manta ray as a distinctive new species, separate from the reef manta ray. She may have also found evidence of a future new, third species of manta.
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Where was Rhinopithecus strykeri discovered? and for some strange reason whenever I hear the word ‘Cryptozoology’ and ‘Monkey’ in the same sentence I think of that hoaxed photograph of a South American spider monkey which some called Ameranthropoides loysi (Loys’ American Ape).
To learn more about any of these folks, merely click the title of each section. For example, clicking on Cryptozoologist of 2010: Ngwe Lwin will reveal details of the Myanmar discovery of Rhinopithecus strykeri. Even though this new species is making some “lists of new species” for 2011, it was discovered, as you know from Cryptomundo, in 2010.