Recent footage from a zoo in China suggested that the sun bear was a man in a suit - but actually it wasn't.
An attraction at a zoo in China has gone viral after a confusing video clip was posted on social media.
From Bigfoot to the Loch Ness Monster - we take a look back at the most popular crypto stories of the last twelve months.
The last known living thylacine - an animal named Benjamin - died at Hobart Zoo all the way back in 1936.
The mysterious object, which zoomed off at high speed, was seen in the vicinity of a Coast Guard plane.
An elephant named 'Happy' has been the subject of a legal battle to have her released back into the wild.
This controversial image allegedly shows a strange creature that was seen outside the perimeter fence of a zoo in Texas.
A recently published video clip shows a huge gorilla tenderly petting a tiny groundhog at Detroit Zoo.
New documents have revealed the truth behind the sacking of Dr Denys Tucker from London's Natural History Museum.
From Bigfoot to the Loch Ness Monster - we take a look back at the most popular crypto stories of the last twelve months.
An abandoned panther from a traveling zoo has been adopted by a woman and her pet rottweiler in Siberia.
A zoo in Australia has come into possession of one of the largest funnel web spider specimens ever found.
A zoo visitor in Utah recently saved a handler by literally jumping into an alligator's tank to wrestle the animal.
The aged reptile, who currently lives in Serbia's Belgrade Zoo, is thought to be the oldest alligator on Earth.
An American cryptozoologist has put forward a possible new explanation for the Loch Ness Monster.
Footage recorded from an airline passenger window shows an anomalous object zooming in and out of view.
The 'Ghost Adventures' crew recently found possible evidence of human remains at Joe Exotic's old zoo.
An aged alligator that was once rumored to belong to Adolf Hitler has passed away at a zoo in Moscow.
With most people remaining indoors, cryptozoological pursuits have also undergone some changes.
One young zoo visitor recently got quite a scare when a tiger came charging towards him behind a glass wall.