Library of Cryptozoology

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21-1-67. A mysterious animal weighing 700 to 800 kilograms was hunted in the Atlantic Ocean in the proximity of the mouth of the Salado River. Its capture scattered dread and discomfort, although the oldest fishermen failed to recognize its classification and origin. The subofficial, Sotelo, of the prefecture (Maritime Police) said that a large animal swam in front of his post. At first he thought that it was a sea-cow in the distance, but the approach in a launch proved that it was an unknown animal, which was escaping. After two shots, Sotelo managed to kill the monster, which was roped and drawn from the water by the townsmen. The beast possessed dorsal fins in the form of hands, ending in four clawed digits, and a spindly body. The head was similar to that of a cow, although provided with large canine teeth similar to those of a carnivore. A daily newspaper has published today a photograph of the head of the monster by the side of its captor, Sotelo.

... information from BBC producer Michael Andrews indicates that a platypus or platypus form has been reported from an island in Tierra del Fuego, at the southernmost tip of South America. The sighting was made in the 1970s by an amateur naturalist.

In September of the same year [1900], the government of the Territory sent a note to the Chief of Police, Pedro Martínez, with instructions to "hand over to Messrs. Steinkamp, ​​and Nicolás Illin, upon receipt, two Mauser rifles and four hundred bullet cartridges ... These inhabitants of the Corcovado River [...] intend to beat the banks of the Argentine lake 'General Paz' [Lake Vintter] trying to hunt the Yemische of the Indians, ' Neo Mylodon Lista Ameghino ', which they say they have seen in that region."

Mr. [Nicholas] Illin, who has recently been exploring in the Andes of Chubut ... believes that in a country where nothing rots for 20 years, probably also nothing would rot for ten thousand years, and that the skin and bones of mylodons found are of great age ... Mr. Illin tels us that there is a large animal of the beaver class. He saw a lady in Chubut who has a boa made of the skin of one which is of a yellowish color. He also saw footprints of, as is supposed, this animal which has no name as yet. The prints were smaller than those of a puma but larger than those of any other carnivorous animal in those parts; for they were evidently of a carnivorous animal. Several Indians and settlers had seen this beast, but it is very rare.