This week, Fel and Han drag Astra along for a riotous exploration of creatures, cryptids, and folklore. Is there any truth to these most mysterious of beasts? What kind of historical or scientific explanations might we have for cryptids? Is Bigfoot real?! Tune into this episode for our thoughts.

RESOURCES

• Pliny’s Natural History: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plin.+Nat.+toc (A specific link to his dodgy explanation of other peoples can be found here

• mentions Blemmyae: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=5:chapter=8&highlight=)

• Visualising the biomass on Earth: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-the-biomass-of-earth-in-one-graphic/

• Mythical’ creatures sometimes turn out to be real: https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/yamuti

• of mammal species may be undiscovered https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5901171/

• Controversial study estimating the number of species on Earth https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127

• Which cryptid are you? https://uquiz.com/quiz/X0fZIl/which-cryptid-are-you

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