I strongly suspect that all the armchair naysayers about this and things like sasquatch, yeti, and so forth, have not spent much time in the great outdoors. I

I strongly suspect that all the armchair naysayers about this and things like sasquatch, yeti, and so forth, have not spent much time in the great outdoors. I have. There are many wild places in the world and most creatures in it are fairly shy and good at staying undetected, as well as very sensitive and can smell, see, or otherwise detect clumsy, smelly, loud humans from very far off. There could easily be small populations of an animal like this in a place the size of Tazmania, never mind a whole continent the size of Australia...both of which are sparsely populated besides. Besides that, why would people lie about all the encounters, that are random and coming from many sources, clearly it isn't a conspiracy or something. I will never understand how people can just smugly write off so many things as impossible, fantasy, myth, superstition, etc. when the world is so big and not that explored, the seas are basically unexplored, and space...well that's really enormous. A lot of things could be out there, and it is very, very hard to prove with certainty that something doesn't exist, or that the largest of some creature has been caught, or whatever. Scientists love to make proclamations, but they frequently are proven wrong... You know what I'd really like to see some scientists get around to studying seriously? Crop circles. Still completely unexplained...