Thread: May 24th, 2017: International Cryptozoology Museum
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Old 05-24-2017, 01:40 PM   #4
Flint
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
Huh? Recent discovery?

Especially the panda!
This is Eurocentric "discovery" --from Wikipedia:

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The West first learned of the giant panda on 11 March 1869, when the French missionary Armand David received a skin from a hunter. The first Westerner known to have seen a living giant panda is the German zoologist Hugo Weigold, who purchased a cub in 1916.
Pseudoscience is largely based on ignorance. I "don't know" about a thing, so I propose a wild theory.
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