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Living Fossils and Cryptozoology |
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“Living fossils” are presently-living organisms that mainstream biology textbooks refer to as “ancient.” Whether or not cockroaches and crocodiles are ancient, living many millions of years ago—this is hotly contested between evolutionists and creationists. But the creatures themselves are interesting and deserve attention.
Cryptozoology deals with apparent creatures that are not yet classified by zoologists, at least not yet by non-crypto-zoologists. Some of these cryptids may turn out to be “living fossils,” however, and wouldn’t that be interesting if dinosaurs and pterosaurs were still living?
Consider the following web sites about the Mokele-Mbembe, ropen, indava, and ogopogo. The world may contain more strange creatures—real, living creatures—than are found in biology textbooks. At least some of these creatures, like the Coelacanth, are for real.
“To be enlightened by the Coelacanth, look not at the anatomy of fishes but at the mentality of humans. What is to be learned from a fish that is labeled a “living fossil?” It’s a lesson from the mistakes of biology textbooks written before the 1938 discovery of the Coelacanth, and those mistakes may be more numerous and significant than is now commonly known.”
Mokele-mbembe, The Living Dinosaur! “In the jungles of central Africa countries of Congo, Cameroon, and Gabon are reports of animal an animal with a long neck, a long tail, and rounded shape tracks with three claws. The closest known animal that has these characteristics is a sauropod dinosaur.”
Was a Mokele-mbembe killed at Lake Tele? By the explorer William Gibbons “I can confirm that at least two of the pygmies who were directly involved in the killing of a Mokele-mbembe at Lake Tele about three decades ago were acquainted on a personal level with missionary pastor Eugene P. Thomas. I have discussed this incident with Pastor Thomas, and he was able to confirm most of the details of the story . . .”
“In South-Central British Columbia, in Lake Okanagan, lives something local people call ‘Ogopogo.’ Local natives who recite legends use another name for the lake monster: Naitaka. . . . the creatures (yes, there must be more than one to have a breeding population) can be between 20 and 50 feet long, with a horse-like head and a snake-like body. . . .”
“It’s common practice for many major documentary producers to either ignore the possibility of living pterosaurs or dinosaurs or to treat unorthodox sightings as if unreliable, simply because what is described seems to be a dinosaur or a pterosaur.”
“Strange as it may seem . . . Grendel, in the epic poem of Beowulf, bears resemblance to a dinosaur such as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, though the story seems to make it clear that the monster was not nearly as large as the largest fossils we have . . .”
Pterosaur Seen in South Carolina “Late in 2007, I interviewed Susan Wooten by email concerning her sighting of an apparent pterosaur that flew over a highway near a swamp in South Carolina. She told me that ‘It looked as big as any car, and had NO feathers, not like a huge crane or egret.’ With a wingspan that she estimated at 12-20 feet . . .”
Living Pterosaur Expedition of 2006 “Late in 2006, I interviewed Paul Nation in his home in Granbury, Texas, just days after he had returned from Papua New Guinea. . . .”
A Quest to Slay the Evolutionary Dragon “He snacks on live bugs, sleeps in a hut and has never watched television, but someday soon an Umboi Island native, armed with a $7 drugstore camera, could snap a photograph that forces changes in textbooks and science museums the world over.”
Three native eyewitnesses of the ropen (pterosaur) (includes a video of the three young men)
“ . . . three native young men saw a giant ropen flying over a crater lake around 1994. When asked about the tail, they said that it had a “diamond.” The tail was ‘long’.”
Book Reviews by Jonathan Whitcomb Books reviewed included the subjects of living dinosaurs, living pterosaurs, the Min Min light of Australia (apparently barn owls), and a near-death experience (NDE).
The Indava of Papua New Guinea “On the mainland of Papua New Guinea, lives a colony of creatures unclassified by science but known to the villagers as ‘indava.’ . . . According to the book Searching for Ropens, rare Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs still fly in the Southwest Pacific . . .” |