Reptilian Cryptids

The blood-draining predator that left livestock drained across Latin America.

Deep in the Congo Basin, local tribes describe a living dinosaur with total consistency across generations.

Japan's mischievous water imp with a bowl of power on its head.

A half-bird, half-reptile terror from Maryland with a taste for livestock and legend.

A stubby, venomous dragon-cat with two front legs haunts the caves and cliffs of the European Alps.

Zambian fishermen describe a flying reptile with leathery wings and teeth that capsizes their boats.

A legless or two-legged dragon slithers through Scandinavian and Germanic legends as a creature of both terror and strange wisdom.

A dragon-bird painted on Mississippi River bluffs by the Illini, feared as a man-eater.

A 7-foot reptilian biped that attacked a teen's car in a South Carolina swamp.

A spiny, fire-born beast from the Wisconsin woods with a taste for white bulldogs.

A scaly, long-necked dragon depicted on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon stands among real animals, leading some to argue it was drawn from life.

Islanders in Papua New Guinea describe a glowing, long-tailed flying creature that matches no known bird or bat.

A bipedal frog-like humanoid spotted by police on an Ohio road at night.

Sacred water guardians of Maori tradition that shape rivers, protect tribes, and sometimes drag the unwary to their doom.

Something in the Congo swamps kills elephants with a single horn and has no interest in eating them.

A bipedal reptilian predator stomping through the Australian outback, leaving three-toed tracks in places nothing large should be.

West African elders say that anyone who sees this swamp dragon dies shortly after.

A giant snapping turtle the size of a dining table, spotted in an Indiana farm pond.

A saber-toothed, armored aquatic predator was reported in a Kenyan river by a big-game hunter in 1907.

A giant aquatic lizard once said to inhabit remote Himalayan valleys before being deliberately exterminated.

A small, armored creature with a glowing gemstone embedded in its head, spotted in the Andes at twilight.

In a remote Kenyan river valley, locals describe an armored, club-tailed reptile that has no business still existing.