Cryptozoology

Cryptozoology the study of hidden or unknown creatures. Are any of these creatures real or just a figure of our imagination? About 3\4 of the world is covered with water, who's to say there aren't creatures hidden in the deep. Are these creatures physical or spiritual beings? What are your opinions?

EDIT: Lets take it a step further and change up the question alittle. I've received many opinions about there being underwater creatures but what about land creatures.
Such as: Bigfoot
Beast of Bray road
Flying Humanoids
Black Dogs
Chupacabra
Mothman
Loch Ness Monster (I know this creatures is suppose to inhabit water but I thought I'd throw it in there.)
Can we rule out the possibility of these creatures being a possibility? Are they as real as the aliens we so called believe? Im just throwing out some questions to spark up more of a discussion.

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seeking fact beyond fiction?
why not?

KittensKill wrote: seeking fact beyond fiction?
why not?

I agree 100%.

There is no reason NOT to believe in creatures in the deep sea.
I'm taking the Lovegood mentality on this one. There's a good likelihood there are plenty of different kinds of animals out there we don't know about.

There's probably some stuff out there but I'm not really holding my breath for anything.

This kind of interests me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bloop

According to scientists who have studied the phenomenon it matches the audio profile of a living creature but there is no known animal that could have produced the sound. If the sound did come from an animal, it would reportedly have to be several times the size of the largest known animal on Earth, the Blue Whale

But that could easily be an error in the equipment.

It seems like a lot of the "new" species are just reclassifications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammals_discovered_in_the_2000s
Though some are apparently unknown to the white man until recently. ;P

who's to say there's nothing remarkable in the abyss? there's fish which can survive at 11,000m below the surface. Why there are even squids which are as long as 30 feet, and there could possibly be some so much larger that are the explanation for all those sailor's tales of squids grabbing the crew from the boat with their tentacles and dragging them into the depths.

this is like exobiology, the study of what like would be like on other planets.

its taking the facts of the environment and putting together what an animal may look like in that place.
eg, in water it must be able to breathe without air.

etc etc.

its not about magical creatures and the like, its just guessing what life is like other places.

why not?
over the past billion years there is evidence of life besides humans
fossils, frozen mammoth encage in ice, remnants of the past, proves that there are Life before us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeef188sL04&feature=fvsr

Meh, it's really possible.

There's a ton of unexplored space by now, there are definitely a plethora of undiscovered species...

We don't know everything so yeah there's no telling what's out there.

aztekk wrote: abyss

Dude, the ocean is not the abyss.

and they've already proven the existence of giant squids.

the whole thing new undiscovered species in the deep sea was done a few year back on BBC, they got a submarine that could go deeper than before, and they ended up recoreding thousands of new species big and small that had never been found before, i cant remember what it was called but it was presented by david attenborough, who said "that more is known about the surface of the moon, than whats in our oceans"

OMG I almost wanted to become a cryptozoologist!!!

sally wrote: OMG I almost wanted to become a cryptozoologist!!!

Does anyone actually pay them to do that aside from the ones that are documentaries on discovery channel?

I would have to say that, while they are many valid cryptids, I believe that the majority of them are just legends. And those that aren't legends are mostly just undiscovered animals that have been exaggerated by legend. Then, there's confirmed animals that were previous cryptids (i.e. komodo dragons). At the risk of continuing to ramble, I think that we let myths and urban legends obscure scientific study when it comes to reported cryptids.