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1. Cryptozoological

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   Historical Development
   Cryptozoology emerged as a formal discipline in the 1950s, though systematic creature-hunting dates back considerably further. Early practitioners such as Bernard Heuvelmans, a Belgian zoologist, established foundational principles for the field by categorizing unknown animals into five distinct types based on witness descriptions and audio frequencies. The discovery of the coelacanth in 1938—a fish thought extinct for 66 million years—provided cryptozoology with its primary validation argument, despite the coe…