International Society of Cryptozoology

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The International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC) was founded in 1982 to serve as a scholarly center for documenting and evaluating evidence of unverified animals; that is, animal species or forms which have been reported in some manner but which have not been scientifically proven to exist. The study of such animals is known as cryptozoology. Loren Coleman, John Green, Roy Mackal, and several other prominent cryptozoologists were either Life Members, Honorary Members, or Board Members.

The official emblem of the society was the okapi, chosen because, while well known to the native human population in the area where it lives, it was unknown to the scientific world until its discovery in 1901.

The organization is now defunct. The end of ISC began with the destabilization of the organization's funding, and continued with the death of its president, Bernard Heuvelmans, after the turn of the century, and the death of its secretary, Richard Greenwell, late in 2005.