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The Amazon's pink river dolphin comes ashore at night disguised as a handsome stranger.
The Amazon basin alone contains more undiscovered species than anywhere else on the planet. These are the creatures that locals know but science hasn't caught up to yet.
13 creatures

The Amazon's pink river dolphin comes ashore at night disguised as a handsome stranger.

Brazilian hunters know this forest spirit punishes anyone who takes more than they need.
A small, armored creature with a glowing gemstone embedded in its head, spotted in the Andes at twilight.

Inside Chilean volcanoes lives a molten humanoid that demands human sacrifice to stay dormant.

It lies flat on the water like a discarded cowhide, until something steps on it.
A flame-haired forest guardian with backward feet, who drives hunters insane by making them walk in circles.

In Central America, a glowing-eyed dog follows you home at night, but its color decides your fate.

In the forests of Honduras, a backward-footed ape-man kidnaps anyone who makes eye contact.

A cow-headed amphibian haunts Chilean marshes, and seeing one means birth defects for the unborn.

Entire sections of Brazilian forest have collapsed into tunnels dug by something impossibly large.

Something enormous has been surfacing in an Argentine lake for over a century.
A shapeshifting flying serpent from Chilean forests that drains the blood of livestock from the air.

Deep in the Amazon, locals say a snake longer than a river is wide guards the waterways.