History

The following is a chronological list of important events in the history of cryptobiology and the scientists and individuals that founded, significantly contributed to, and forged the field into what it has become today.

• Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) - botanist, zoologist, physician and early cryptobiologist, conducted cryptobiological work in the Animalia Paradoxa section of his classic 1735 work Systema Naturae

• Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858-1943) - zoologist and early cryptobiologist, author of the classic 1892 work The Great Sea-Serpent

• Ivan Terence Sanderson (1911-1973) - biologist and early cryptobiologist, author of various books, including the classic 1961 work Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life: The Story of Sub-Humans On Five Continents From The Early Ice Age Until Today

• Bernard Heuvelmans (1916-2001) - scientist and early cryptobiologist, generally considered the founding father of cryptobiology, author of the classic 1958 work On the Track of Unknown Animals

• Loren Coleman (1947-today) - psychiatrist and prominent modern cryptobiologist, contributed to the 2006 exhibition "Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale" at Bates College Museum of Art and co-authored the associated exhibition catalogue book of the same name, delivered the keynote address "An Introduction to Cryptozoology" at the symposium at Bates College in 2005 and gave a similar talk in 2007 at the American Museum of Natural History, founder of the International Cryptozoology Museum established in 2003, publicity consultant on the 2002 American horror film The Mothman Prophecies

• Karl Shuker (1959-today) - zoologist and prominent modern cryptobiologist, columnist in the Fortean Times magazine, author of various works such as Dragons: A Natural History from 1995 and The Beasts that Hide from Man from 2003, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cryptozoology which began in 2012