1) A wealth of evidence, such as many cited footprints of both humans and dinosaurs in the same "strata" layers and the Ica stones.
2 + 3) It's called Cryptozoology. Go search it. Mokele-Mbembe, batamzinga, kongamato, seram, orang-bati.... Many others (or the same ones with different tribal names). In fact you can probably find the radio recording of mokele-mbembe doing his calls out in the swamps.
2 + 3) It's called Cryptozoology. Go search it. Mokele-Mbembe, batamzinga, kongamato, seram, orang-bati.... Many others (or the same ones with different tribal names). In fact you can probably find the radio recording of mokele-mbembe doing his calls out in the swamps.
While I am a big fan of Cryptozoology, it is not a wealth of evidence until it is accepted into the field as proven. It isn't yet. Most scientists still laugh at Cryptozoology. That's not to say it isn't potentially true: there needs to be explicit evidence to say something is not true for that to be the case.
However, it is not a certified truth yet. When it is it can be argued. Also, its relation to mythology is not explicitly true either: it may have influenced it. Or it may not have. Many cultures place power in things, such as the sun. To say a tribe specifically buried their dead a certain way to avoid *that* particular predator requires proof. I'm willing to believe there was a practical reason: there often is in dance and ritual.
I'm obviously not counting living fossils, which are not (usually) under the scope of Cryptozoology. They do exist though. There's quite an extensive list.