Case file · Cryptid
De Loys' ape
Swiss geologist François de Loys photographed a dead tailless 'ape' he said was shot near the Tarra River on the Venezuela–Colombia border around 1920; in 1929 anthropologist George Montandon named it Ameranthropoides loysi.
1920 CE · 8.60, -72.70 · status: hoax
The sceptical view
Primatologists identify the animal as a spider monkey with its tail hidden or removed, posed on a crate to hide its true size; no tailless great ape has ever been found in the Americas.