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In 1937, the director of the Paris Vincennes Zoo, Professor Achille Urbain, journeyed to North Cambodia and learned of a large wild ox, unlike the gaur and the banteng. Native people called it the kouprey. Other naturalists, however, were certain that he was wrong, and they suggested that the kouprey might be no more than a hybrid of the gaur and the banteng. Finally, in 1961, a detailed anatomical study of the kouprey ( Bos sauveli ) proved it to be so different from the area\u2019s other wild oxen that it was declared a new animal, upholding Urbain\u2019s 1937 conclusion.<\/p>\n

Harvard mammalogist Harold J. Coolidge proposed that the kouprey be placed in a new genus, Novibos. Southeast Asia\u2019s wars killed off many koupreys, and some regional zoologists fear that not more than three hundred now exist in the wild. Between 1953 and 1980 koupreys were thought extinct in Thailand until a small group was rediscovered in the Dongrak mountains.<\/p>\n

A 1975 New York Zoological Society expedition failed to capture any, though members did observe a herd of fifty. In November 1988, Hanoi University zoologist Vo Quy led a well-funded capture team to begin a captive breeding population, but specimens eluded him and his party. Koupreys remain one of Asia\u2019s most elusive larger mammals. The Bishop of Bergen, Erik Pontoppidan, writing in The Natural History of Norway (1723), told of the largest \u201cSea-Monster in the world,\u201d the many- armed Kraken.<\/p>\n

The giant squid\u2014once known as the Kraken\u2014was considered an absurd fiction until indisputable physical evidence of its existence became available in the 1870s. Before then, however, respectable opinion thought Kraken as fabulous a creature as the Merbeings, and those who claimed to have seen it could count on being ridiculed if they took their sightings to scientists. Scientific investigation of the animal did not begin until the 1840s, when Danish zoologist Johan Japetus Steenstrup took up the subject, looking for reports in printed sources.<\/p>\n

In an indifferently received 1847 lecture to the Society of Scandinavian Naturalists, he took note of beach strandings of giant squids going back to 1639, when one was found on an Icelandic beach.<\/p>\n

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\u2014DR. BERNARD HEUVELMANS, 1988 OceanofPDF.com Cryptozoology Timeline Milestones 1812 Cuvier\u2019s \u201cRash Dictum\u201d 1817\u20131819 \u201cNew England Sea-Serpent\u201d sightings peaked 1860 Philip Henry Gosse\u2019s The Romance of Natural History 1892 A.C. Oudemans\u2019s The Great Sea Serpent 1896 \u201cGiant Octopus\u201d of St. Augustine, Florida 1913 First Mokele-mbembe expedition 1913\u20131914 \u201cNandi Bear\u201d sightings peaked 1920s \u201cSasquatch\u201d coined 1921 \u201cAbominable Snowman\u201d coined 1922 \u201cPatagonian plesiosaur\u201d expedition\/\u201cMngwa\u201d sightings peaked 1930 Rupert T.<\/p>\n

Gould\u2019s The Case for the Sea-Serpent 1933 \u201cLoch Ness Monster\u201d sightings begin 1934 Rupert T. Gould\u2019s The Loch Ness Monster and Others 1937 Gandar Dower\u2019s The Spotted Lion 1941 Willy Ley\u2019s The Lungfish and the Unicorn 1946 Charles Barrett\u2019s The Bunyip 1948 Ivan T.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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