Africa has cryptids, too 

What does the Mokele-Mbembe have in common with the kongamato? Both are unclassified by Western science, unacknowledged in biology textbooks, for they both live in the realm of cryptozoology. And both the kongamato and the Mokele-Mbembe seem to be creatures that are supposed to be extinct for many millions of years.

 

Mokele-Mbembe, according to the late cryptozoologist  Scott Norman, lives in the Congo, in Cameroon, and in Gabon. It has a long neck, a long tail, and its tracks are rounded and shows that it has three claws per foot. That suggests a sauropod dinosaur, but one that is distincly non-extinct.

 

What about the  kongamato? It may be the same flying creature that is called "Batamzinga" in Kenya or "ropen" in Papua New Guinea. In 1956, engineer J.P.F. Brown saw, near Lake Bangweulu, Zambia, two creatures flying slowly and silently at 6:00 p.m. He described a long tail and narrow head, and when one creature opened its mouth the man noticed many pointed teeth. That suggests a pterosaur (AKA "pterodactyl"), also apparently non-extinct.