Yep, science likes everything neat and tidy. And I respect that, and know that the burden of proof lies mainly with the believers, not the academics....folks like anthropologist Jeff Meldrum notwithstanding.
Academia considered the Coelecanth extinct, until one was pulled up off the coast of Madagascar in 1938. Stories about the Kraken were dismissed as sailor's tales until the carcasses began washing up on shore. Now the genus Architeuthis is widely recognized and accepted.
The Muntjac Deer and Vu Quang ox, both large, land dwelling animals, remained undiscovered by science until 1994 and 1992, respectively. And new primate species, albeit smaller than we're talking about here, continue to be documented. In nearly every case, the animals in question were well known to the people indigenous to the area......just not to the scientific community, which scoffed at the reports.
Oh yeah, there's more to discover.
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