Cryptozoology is the study and search for animals which are not currently formally recongised by the scientific community, but are said to exist by local people and other witnesses.
The most likely habitats to be harbouring unknown animals are considered to be jungles, oceans and mountains: places rarely explored by modern man.
Africa is a veritable ark of cryptids.
The Congo Basin, a combination of rainforest and swamp, is said to be home to relict dinosaurs like Mokele-Mbembe and Ngoubou, as well as pygmy water "elephants", aquatic big cats, and large carnivorous apes, like the dodu. Sightings on the large island of Madagascar seem to suggest that its native megafauna - giant lemurs and fossas, and pygmy hippopotamus' - could still thrive in the island's interior.
Examining the evidence for prehistoric survivors, new species, uncontacted tribes and lost civilisations in Green Hell.
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