Talk:Cryptozoology

I would like to add:

The credibility of Darwin's philosophy of universal (or unlimited)

common ancestry requires many living things to have lived in the distant

past; "ancient" creatures must, for the most part, differ from living ones

to make believable all the many forms which would have had to have been

the progenitors of all presently living forms.

Dinosaurs and pterosaurs seemed to satisfy the Darwinist demands for "ancient"

creatures that differed greatly from present life forms. For over 150 years,

almost all expeditions to find evidences for dinosaurs and pterosaurs have

been for uncovering standard fossils, not "living fossils." Only a tiny fraction

of funding has gone to searches for living dinosaurs and pterosaurs. This has

delayed officially recognized discoveries of previously unconfirmed creatures

(labeled "cryptids.") that might be living dinosaurs and pterosaurs.