Meanings of cryptid in English

In which report of life in Imperial Rome does it mention the arrival of a large ape-like cryptid at the city gates?

Allan Gross' graphic novel series tells the entirely fictional story of a rare "cryptid" beast that is protected from extinction by a secret organization.

He was a trained zoologist, who also spent much of his life looking for cryptids.

The lead character Buttons is named after the producer on Darby's radio show The Cryptid Factor.

Tales from the Cryptid weaves stories of mythical beasts such as the Kraken with schlocky B-movie snippets to great effect.

Cryptids became involved because, along with unstudied primate species and subspecies of bears, some people believe the legends could describe distant relations.

Throw in Lew Lashmitt's eyewitness drawing of the Poughkeepsie Cryptid, and you have one bizarre but beautiful tome on Earth's collective nightmares.

"I specialize in megafauna cryptids."