I'm always amazed with the cryptids that are discovered daily in every environment all over the planet, yet disappear almost immediately from the public eye once such cryptids receive the scientific seal of approval. As if to say "Okay, we have that one categorized and in our pocket, no need to further muse upon it."

Every living thing on this planet, known and unknown, has hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history behind it; yet, our science-saturated culture refuses to acknowledge the existence of cryptids until we hold their gutted carcasses in our hands. A week after their "discovery" and certification, these creatures fade from our human realm of interest.

I think this is the key to understanding the Bigfoot and Nessie and even the UFO phenomena, which I happen to think are all products of human imagination. Such phenomena are open-ended mysteries, manufactured and embellished by the human mind in such a way as to remain open-ended mysteries.

We humans don't merely crave and enjoy mystery, we need it as a catalyst in the ongoing evolution of our minds. Where no mystery exists to Science, humans will fabricate mystery.

The stated mission of Science is to unlock the mysteries of Nature... But, while fascinating to us in the short-term, I think we humans subconsciously perceive the "march of Science" as a threat to our need for the unexplained and the unexplainable.

So, here we have these perennial favorite human mysteries: Giants lumbering across the landscape; Sea monsters emerging from the depths; Angels and demons descending from the heavens. These are the Earth Mysteries, I call them, the mysteries of the Land, the Sea, and the Air — mysteries that will persist because our youthful Science cannot and probably never will solve them to the satisfaction of the human collective.

We need these mysteries, and we need them unsolved. Because, if we ever did catch BigFoot and identify him as a descendent of Gigantopithicus, if we ever did capture Nessie and identify her as a Plesiosaur, if we ever did make contact with UFOs and learned that they were the angels and demons of old, then we will not have gained anything.

We will have lost a great deal, however, in closing the casebooks on those enduring mysteries, for they represent unreachable objectives in our minds, and that is what fuels our indefatigable quest for knowledge

— Doc Velocity

Hello all, I have been a lurker for a year, but this post, along with a few other interesting ones I found, made me create an account to join in the discussions.
now one of the members asked why cryptozoology and ufology are disregarded by science in general. I disagree with that statement. Biology does what cryptozooly sets out to do; biologists are out in the fields/forest/deserts/oceans looking for new specimens all the time; once in a while actually finding new species. Ufology is covered by astronomy, cosmology, and the science of astrobiology which is starting to get a lot of attention lately.
what I wonder is if any of the main targets of cryptozologists, in other words those creatures that are viewed largely as myth by the scientific community because of the lack of evidence for their existence, have actually been found.
second, can anyone give me examples of some animals/creatures who were thought to be fictional and mythical that have been found in the last ten years?

I believe the field of cryptozoology has been lacking support. Just like many things, it was just a fad. I am very interested and probably will always be interested in the field of cryptozoology, but more people need to get interested in this real subject.