The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies

Cryptozoology

LC control no.sh 94005718
LC classificationQL88.3 QL89.2
Topical headingCryptozoology
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
See alsoZoology
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities
Scope noteHere are entered works on the study of animals that are unexpected in time, place, size, or shape, or whose existence is based on testimony or circumstantial evidence.
Found inWork cat.: 94034307: Heuvelmans, B. On the track of unknown animals, 1994: CIP galley (Cryptozoology)
Random House (the study of evidence tending to substantiate the existence, of, or the search for, creatures whose reported existence is unproved, as the Abominable Snowman or the Loch Ness monster)
BDNE.
Cryptozoological Realms web site, May 30, 2003 (Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans defines cryptozoology on p. xxv of his On the track of unknown animals, 1995, as "the scientific study of animals forms, the existence of which is based only on testimonial or circumstantial evidence, or on material proof judged insufficient by some." Dr. Roy P. Mackal defines cryptozoology on p. 9 of the foreword of Shuker, K., In search of prehistoric survivors: do giant 'extinct' creatures till exist, 1995, as "the study and investigation of evidence for animals unexpected in time or place or in size or shape.")
Not found inWeb. 3