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Lives carefree existence Species is stable Species may be extinct in our lifetime Endangered species Species is unhappy with current state of affairs Please contact us with any more information Dangerous to humans May be confused with Sasquatch Associated with meteorological phenomena Stronger than He-Man Stronger than trees Harder to detect than Ninja More evil than Skeletor In competition with other beaver species Has magical powers like Orko Ugly

Best images	Status	Natural History and Range	First Sighting	Reference for more information

Seattle Viaduct Troll Hobgoblin fremontii var. viaductii
	Critically endangered, only known individual lives under Viaduct in downtown Seattle.	Lives underneath Seattle Viaduct aka Hwy 99. Only known from distributions in downtown Seattle, Fremont, and Phinney Ridge.	Bar-Ness (2007)	1) Subspecies of Fremont Troll, possibly socially interacting with. 2) Critically endangered, but highly visible habitat planning process 3) See local Seattle newspapers, any date in 2007, for in depth analysis of habitat conservation efforts.

Tasmanian Tree Tiger Thylacinus huonensis
	Unknown, likely critically endangered. Pressures from land clearing activities.	Treetops of Stringybark, Eucalyptus obliqua, and Swamp Gum, Eucalyptus regnans. Only found in mixed rainforest stands with Gondwanaland-affinity understorey of Antarctic Beech, Nothofagus and Huon Pine, Lagarostrobus.	Bar-Ness (2004), although undoubtedly recognized as a separate species by the sadly vanquished Tasmanian Aboriginal community.	1) Closest relative is Thylacinus cynocephalus 2) Marsupial relict from Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions of Australian marsupial megafauna. 3) Unknown diet. May pose threat to humans in these forests.

Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Octopus paxarbolis var cascadii
More images here (+)	Endangered from exploitation pressures (fashion industry), real estate development and timber activities	Found in old-growth tree canopies. Forests of Cascadia (Western Washington)	First described by Zapato (2002). Cascadian variety first photographed by Bar-Ness (2002). Handful of sightings since.	1) Save the PNW Tree Octopus: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ 2) Tree Octopus Sightings: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/sightings.html 3) Related to extinct Douglas octopus and red-ringed madrona sucker. 4) Lyle Zapato, at zapatopi.net, has been a tireless crusader for and researcher of the PNW Tree Octopus, and an inspiration from the beginning. 5) See also http://www.cafepress.com/treeoctopus/ 6)

Tree-Ringed Octopus Hapalochlaena eucalyptlata
	Probably extinct. Destroyed by development at Daisy Hill. See link here (X)	Can grow up to 30cm (12 in) across. Bright blue rings when angered. Can inflict a lethal bite. Exceedingly rare, known only from SE Queensland, Australia at Daisy Hill locality. Described as "rare and beautious beasts"- Whitelaw (2005)	Whitelaw (2005)	1) Probably extinct. http://www.savedaisyhill.com/ 2) Carries enough poison to kill 26 adults in minutes! 3) See Lyle Zapato's Tree Octopus Sightings: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/sightings.html 4) Whitelaw's home page. http://www.sonnywhitelaw.com/home.html

Western Red Cedar Climbing Octopus Thujoctopus pilosa
	Locally endangered due to fashionable blue velvet pelt trade, pressure now eased due to economic alternatives. Prone to attack by canines.	Breeding colonies. Arboreal.	Marc.L (2006)	1) Please consider artificial materials for your blue velvet needs. 2) See Lyle Zapato's Tree Octopus Sightings: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/sightings.html

Razor Beaver Castoroides dendromortensis syn. C. arbornecrosii
(Reconstructed skeleton of closely related Giant Beaver)	Appears to be increasingly common. Do not approach, they are potentially very dangerous.	Forested areas, worldwide.	Never sighted. but presence suspected worldwide. Increasingly common.	1) Never photographed, but evidence of their presence is clearly seen in large areas of forest land in which the trees have been chopped down. 2) Only beaver with tree-chewing technique which creates flat horizontal cuts in trees. It always drags away the fallen logs and uses them to build its dry lodge. 3) The tracks of the Razor Beaver are often used by road builders in the forest. 3) Related to Giant Beaver (extinct): http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/giantbev.htm 4) Yukon Berinigia Interpretative Centre: http://www.beringia.com/02/02maina6.html

Tasmanian Drop Bear Phascolarctus truganinii
	Unknown, high mortality rate of researchers.	Feeds on the Australian Yobbo. Found in rainforest canopies of SW Tasmania.	Unknown. images found in abandoned camera in Southwest Tasmanian Wilderness, 2004	1) In competition for prey with Tasmanian Tree Tiger. Judging by dentition patterns, does not appear to eat Eucalyptus leaves. 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear 3) http://www.geocities.com/muirnin/db.htm 4) http://www.dropbears.com/dbinfo.htm

Munro's Social Eagle Aquila mobii
	Stable	Lives in colonies in upper subalpine forests of Olympic Mountains, Washington State and Vancouver Island, British Columbia	Known to Native American population	1) Highly intelligent, group hunting strategist 2) Highly territorial, known to attack researchers

Venomous Blotoad Vindictus ignoramus
	Stable, habitat protected in USA since November 2000.	Common throughout any democratic country. Wide ranging, occasionally reaching pest status	Miller (2007) in Non-Sequitor Comic Region	1) See original report in Political Zoology Field Guide (Miller, 2007) Here (+) 2) Wide variety of shapes and sizes

Snuffleupagus Aloysius Snuffleupagus
	Threatened by government budget cuts of public television.	Unknown. Reports centered around Sesame Street, USA	Only single individual reported, by a big yellow bird. Probably imaginary. See Henson (197x)	1) Closely resembles wooly mammoth Muppet, with very large eyes. 2) Invisible and inconceivable to adults. Legions of children are active believers, however. Appears to only be found in presence of Big Yellow Bird. 3) Probably a myth. 4) "In the 1980s, it was established that the species was indigenous to Hawaii. On the cast's trip there, Big Bird found a mountain that looked awfully like a side view of Snuffy. He christened it "Mount Snuffleupagus" for the time there." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Snuffleupagus

Chang's Vanishing Elephant Loxondonta invisiblentes
	Unknown	Unknown.	First viewed at Pike Place Market, Seattle (2007)	1) Large animal that can become invisible. 2) Perhaps related the Snuffleupagus,Aloysius Snuffleupagus

Quake Snake Serpentus tremuloidensis
	Unclear if only a single individual exists, or a large colony.	Underground, in Earth's mantle. Occasionally surfaces and shakes earth.	Reported sightings tabulated at US Geological Service: here (+)	1) See Tremors, 1990 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/ 2) Responsible for millions of deaths worldwide. 3) Please report any sightings to your local geologist immediately. 4) Possibly related to Jormundandr Midgard Serpent.

Phase Shark Carcharhinus interphasii
	Unknown. Threat to humans of inconceivable proportions.	Underwater, able to teleport between dimensions and become invisible.	Never actually sighted.	1) Slips out of phase and then returns to bite surfers and oceanographic researchers. 2) Very Large Teeth. Can bite through steel, titanium, and mithril. 3) Escaped from US Navy Secret Super Weapons of Inconceivable Destruction Research Laboratory.

Pike's Shiny Hog Sus pikeplacensoides
	Rare but very robust to environmental changes.	Gregarious, enjoys large crowds of humans. Found only in Seattle, but similar sister species found worldwide.	Seen thousands of times per day at bottom of Pike Street, downtown Seattle.	1) Very friendly, allows young children and adults to ride on its back. 2) Eats coins, which possibly metabolize to form shiny hard skin cells. 3) Well known Seattle inhabitant. 4) Takes offense to term "Piggy bank"

Cave Grue Grue grue
	Unknown, dangerous threat to humans.	"The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue analhas ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale"	Zork 1 (Infocom 1980)	1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grue_(monster) 2) Find one here: http://thcnet.net/zork/index.php

Thunderbird Fulgura ornithofulgurius
	Single, sacred, and unthreatened.	Strong auditory (boom) and visual (lightning bolts) cues. Visual cues always arrives before audio. Time lapse divided by 3 for distance in km to Thunderbird.	Known to humanity in perpetuity.	1) http://thundercats.vpga.com/bios/thundercats.htm 2) http://www.noaa.gov/lightning.html 3) Often confused with Thor's Hammer.

Vermicious Knid Knid knid
	Invasive species, direct and dire threat to Human Civilization. Treat with exceeding caution.	Home planet is Vermes. Shape changers, however naturally knids are huge, dark, egg-shaped beings. Quite at home in the vacuum of space. Attacks space vessels by ramming them, pointy-end first.	Dahl (1971), Wonka (1971)	1) "Numerous sentient alien species that formerly existed have been wiped out by the knids' predations. Wonka claims that the only reason humans have escaped this fate is because the Knids cannot enter Earth's atmosphere without being burned up by friction" 2)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicious_knid

Dunyip Dunny dunensis
(No picture)	(Unknown)	(Unknown)	(Unknown)	(Unknown)

Rain Deer Rangifer hydro
(No picture)	(Awaiting results from field expedition, 2007)	(Awaiting results from field expedition, 2007)	(Awaiting results from field expedition, 2007)	(Awaiting results from field expedition, 2007)

Geoduck Panopea abrupta
	Yummy. Highly regulated fisheries industry.	Can live to 160 years. World's largest burrowing clam.	Distant past, by Nisqually Tribe, known as gweduc	1) Common inhabitant of Northwestern American waterways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoduck 2) Recipes at http://www.geoduck.org/Content_Frames/recipesMAIN.html