A hallmark, perhaps the hallmark, of action filmmaking is showing off the rippling muscles of its beefcake protagonists. Gods among men like Arnold Schwarzenneger or Dolph Lundgren made careers out of wearing very little while kicking a titanic amount of ass. For Zack Snyder, a pillar of modern action, it goes beyond simply showing those bodies cut from granite. To hear him tell it, the Greek God aesthetic is almost a way of life.

“I’ve always been sort of obsessed with making sure everyone was in great shape,” Snyder tells Inverse. “I had this ideal aesthetic that I was always chasing with the actors and was always having them really train hard. 300, obviously. Even Manhattan in Watchmen…”

Since 300 turned him into a household name, rippling abs and bulging pecs have become a calling card of sorts for Snyder, whose latest film, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, is streaming now on Netflix. His highly stylized visuals and emphasis on slow-mo have always served the purpose of lionizing the physiques of his stars — and it’s not something he shies away from.

Sasquatch Sunset, a comedic, dramatic, “grossly adorable” new movie directed by Nathan and David Zellner isn’t a work with much scientific integrity. The film imagines a foursome of the mythical giant apes carrying on under the radar, trekking the forests of the Pacific Northwest, fighting, copulating, defecating, and giving us a raw mirror to hold up to our own fraught humanity.

Though such a creature has never (verifiably) been discovered, you could argue that just because we’ve never seen a sasquatch doesn’t mean it’s nonexistent. A handful of real animals believed extinct have made comebacks, after all. These creatures demonstrate that it’s possible to live out quiet, beautiful lives unbeknownst to humans.

The idea of animals wandering the wilderness, evading human perception is called Lazarus taxa after the biblical figure revived from death. It’s possible — and many credentialed researchers have staked their reputation on it — that some animals we’ve declared extinct still wander in solitude. Here are just a few animals who we once believed were gone that, well, a well-positioned field researcher would have a better chance of finding than a sasquatch.