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Cryptozoology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cryptozoologists claim there have been cases that species accepted by the scientific community were initially considered superstition, hoaxes, delusions or misidentifications. The popularly reported European discovery of the okapi in 1901, earlier hinted at but unseen in his travelogue of exploring the Congo by Henry Morton Stanley later became the emblem for the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology.

The 2003 discovery of the fossil remains of Homo floresiensis was cited by paleontologist Henry Gee, editor of the journal Nature as possible evidence that humanoid cryptids like the Orang Pendek and yeti were "founded on grains of truth". Additionally, Gee said, "cryptozoology, the study of such fabulous creatures, can come in from the cold."

It could be a troglodyte - lack of skin pigment seems to imply that.