Do Dinosaurs Still Live?
A pterosaur was reported in
South Carolina. Susan Wooten saw the creature fly over a highway near a remote swamp. The pterosaur had
a long tail and a head crest. Susan was positive: The creature had no feathers.
Glen Kuban, a geologist, has offered an explanation
for some sightings of creatures described like living pterosaurs:
Flying Fox fruit bats; but how can we explain the long tails? Some
eyewitness descriptions in Papua New Guinea are of flying creatures with tails “at least 10-15 feet” long or “seven meters” long.
(not
fruit bats)
Expeditions in Africa and Papua New Guinea
Some researchers travel to remote areas of the world, in search of living dinosaurs.
One of them is
William Gibbons, who has been to Africa and investigated reports of a sauropod known as the
Mokele-mbembe. Westerners
have known about the tracks made by these creatures since the 18th Century. They are as large as elephant tracks but show claw
marks, which elephants do not have. Gibbons has been preparing for another expedition to Central Africa in 2005. In the 2000 expedition
of Gibbons and
David Woetzel, one eyewitness looked at one of the pictures the men showed him and identified it as a creature that
is said to kill elephants at times. The picture Gibbons and Woetzel showed the native was of a triceratops dinosaur.
Woetzel also
explored a remote island in Papua New Guinea in 2004, searching for the “
ropen”, whose description suggests a
pterosaur. He saw
something briefly that he believes was the ropen, although it was a brief
sighting at a distance.