More BC/Yukon Cryptids!

[sebastian]

In the latest BCSCC newsletter, two poorly known cryptids were mentioned. The first one is called the "beaver killer". It is supposedly similar to gaint ground sloth! There were ground sloths lived in the Yukon. They were not the Megatherium, but smaller relatives like the Megalonyx etc. I was up at White Horse's Beringia Museum few years ago and saw the actual fossil there.
The second one is called Ur-Chow. It is a camel-like creature living in the Nass Valley. I know that there were domestciated camels released in the wild of BC before. So, I am still wondering about this one.

If anyone has information about these cryptids, please let me know. Thank you very much!

cheers,
seb

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Hi Sebastian, the Beringia Centre should open next week and will see if I can find more information about those animals.

The Centre has been updated during the winter with quite a few number of new exhibits and recently released new information on their old displays.

There was a very large numbers of animals that lived in Beringia, ( what is now eastern Russia, under the present Beringia sea, Alaska and western Yukon) and they either died off or moved further east and south.

I'll see what I can get and pass it on.

Red Grossinger, Whitehorse, Yukon

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Further to my last, for anyone interested, there were 13 different types of animals living in the Land of Beringia;

the Yukon Horse, the Helmeted Muskox, the Ancient Caribou, the North American Saiga, the Ice Age Yukon and Alaskan Camel, the Steppe Bison, the American Scimitar Cat, the Giant Beaver, the American Lion, the North American Short-faced Bear, the American Mastodon, the Wooly Mammoth and the Jefferson's Ground Sloth.

Sorry no mention of Sasquatch.

To find out more about these animals follow this link;

www:beringia.com then follow on to Beringia Interpretive Centre, Beringia Research and finally Research Notes.

Hope this shines some lights on the Beringia animals.

Red

[sebastian]

Thanks, Red! I visited the Beringia Museum a few years ago. It's nice to see that they are updating their displays. May be I shall go up there for a visit next year.

thanks again,
seb

[james31]

I took my family to the Beringa museum in summer 2011. I highly recommend it - it's really well done.

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[duallie]

i was just up there again last year fishing.
wish i would have went there.
but that would have been one less day fishing.

interesting that there was no recorded cases of the big-guy.
that should make us wonder a bit.
no evidence today, and no evidence back then.
at least if they had something it would give hope that it's much more plausible.

i'll definitely go check that place out next time i'm up there.