The legend of the horned rabbit of the West
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I'm somewhat torn because the internet has made the world so much smaller that something like the jackalope is less likely to be an accidental find on a road trip into the sticks. It will pop up in someone's Instagram feed and be just another of the day's mild amusements. "Discovery" has become too easy — less magical?
At the same time, without the internet I would probably not have known about hundreds of other things that have obsessed me over there years — had not, for example, made a point to seek out and hike on the Nakasendo highway in Japan.
Warning: kitschy Shonen Knife song, "Jackalope" (just to tie everything together):
Modern genetics proves that it is a neozoon introduced from Bavaria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger
(Couldn't find the source for the claim, though.)