Searching for living dinosaurs and pterosaurs has become an important avocation for David Woetzel, a New Hampshire businessman, and in both central Africa and Papua New Guinea has he searched. Late in 2000, he accompanied the explorer William Gibbons into Cameroon, Africa, where they interviewed many natives. A creature called “li’kela-bembe” is greatly feared in [...]
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Nonfiction books about modern pterosaurs
Big Bird! Modern Sightings of Flying Monsters Ken Gerhard steers clear of philosophical controversay in this 2007 nonfiction: He reports his experiences and those of the eyewitnesses he has interviewed, avoiding the issue of Creationism versus Naturalism. The amazing stories of large flying creatures are mostly confined to Texas, but what’s wrong with that? There’s [...]
Book about living pterosaurs in the U.S.
Live Pterosaurs in America: Sightings of Apparent Pterosaurs in the United States–this nonfiction paperback may be the only book ever written about apparent pterosaurs seen across the country, from West Coast to East Coast and from Texas to Maine. But this is more than just a compilation of eyewitness stories; the reasons for the delay in [...]
Hoaxes fail to explain U.S. living-pterosaur reports
A press release (August 04, 2009, News Blaze) is titled “Reports of Living Pterosaurs in U.S. Fail Explanation as Hoaxes,” leaving doubt as to what the title means. The body of the article itself, however, leaves no doubt: Hoax-explanations fail, but the credibility of the eyewitnesses does not fail. The author explains how three separate [...]