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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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