Bigfoot and the Nessie research, instead of FDA and EPA studies!
Loch Ness monster might be giant eel, scientists sayEmily Dixon, CNN • Updated 5th September 2019
(CNN) — The most famous photo of the Loch Ness monster has long been discredited as a hoax, but scientists have come up with a new explanation for other sightings of the elusive beast -- it could be just a giant eel.
A team of researchers used DNA samples from taken from the lake in Scotland where "Nessie" is believed to dwell and concluded that a more familiar creature was behind the legend.
"There are large amounts of eel DNA in Loch Ness," Neil Gemmell, a geneticist from New Zealand's University of Otago said on Thursday.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/loch-ness-monster-explanation-scli-intl/index.html
Does Science Benefit From the Search for Sasquatch?
By Krissy Eliot
It’s difficult to get respect when you work in a field that is referred to as pseudoscience.
Cryptozoology, the study of animals as yet undiscovered, relies heavily on folklore, citizen accounts, and amateur data collection to “prove” that legendary creatures like Bigfoot and Yeti actually exist. In the absence of empirical evidence—and of the skepticism intrinsic to scientific inquiry—such methods can be troubling if not irritating to mainstream scientists.
However, there appears to be some agreement among academics that creatures of folklore deserve scientific investigation. Why? Because cryptid studies have long led to discoveries.
https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2018-07-12/does-science-benefit-search-sasquatch
Apparently, a massive number of scientist - currently being terminated, by Trump, at the EPA and FDA - need jobs:
By Gregory Wallace, CNN
(CNN) - President Donald Trump on Friday announced plans to slash the formal system for advising regulators on nearly every area of federal policy.
The President signed an executive order directing each agency to "terminate at least one-third of its current" advisory committees by the end of September.
The order comes as the administration seeks to overhaul the way federal decisions are made and to overturn many decisions of its predecessors, particularly Obama-era environmental rules. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/14/politics/trump-government-advisory-committees/index.html
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where the Monster could be hiding during the sonar scans.
But how does that work? Does the Monster think: "Here come those sonar boats again. I'll just hide in this cave until they're done" - ?
In defense of cryptozoology, examples of actual animals - previously thought to be mythical - include: giant squids and gorillas.
Another animal thought to be extinct, until one was caught is the coelacanth.
The primitive-looking coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But its discovery in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a local fishing trawler fascinated the world and ignited a debate about how this bizarre lobe-finned fish fits into the evolution of land animals.
With its lobed fins, an primordial relative of this fish could have crawled ashore to become an ancestor of ALL land animals.
We may have a few more surprises yet. 
