I first heard about this through a close friend, who told me that in the congos in Africa there had been reports of dinosaurs still living and being protected by the tribes in Africa, because they think of them as 'sacred creatures'.
The Congos consist of a large land mass, full of caves, vegitation and the right living conditions for such big creatures. Also, the Congos are one of the uncharted places in the world, so who knows what could be there.
(Definitely other cryptids also)
The Congos are famous to have been said to hold prehistoric creatures.
Also.. there were millions of dinosaurs for thousands of centuries. Them all becoming extinct so rapidly?...Hmm...
Evidence is that the Sauropods were one of the dinosaur kinds that survived extinction which I'm going to talk about in a bit.
Also, things like Crocodiles are still around, they are dinosaurs, we just don't think about them as being a dinosaur.
Right, the two main places on Earth said to be home of prehistoric creatures are the Congos in Africa, and South America.
Both with the right environments.
Of course this doesn't include the ocean, because I don't doubt there are prehistoric creatures living in our ocean now.
Anywayyy, I was fascinated by the fact that dinosaurs could still be living in our world now, so I researched into it, and found more than I thought.
Mokele-mbembe -
This creature is said to look like the Sauropod (shown in photo) which survived the Extinction.
It's a herbivore and said to be around 15-30ft in height.
The Mokele-Mbembe is one of the most famous 'living dinosaurs' and is as famous in Cryptidzoology terms as the loch ness monster, big foot and so on.
It's existance and identification has been often discussed amoungst mainstream scientists and cryptidzoologists.
This creature has said to have be seen in sevral expedition reports. There have been many expeditions over the years to find proof of 'living dinosaurs', and there have been quite a few reports of people who have said to have seen such creatures.
There have been very recent expeditions, one of which in 2008.
Quoted from Wiki -
'In March 2008 An episode of the SciFi Channel original series "Destination Truth" involves investigator Josh Gates and crew searching for the elusive dinosaur.'
Watch out for that one...
Emela-ntouka -
This dinosaur live in the Congos, and is said to be a solitaire herbivore, the inhabitants of that area are said to treat this creature with great fear.
Also said to be around the same size as a Rhino.
An explanation to this creature is that it's said to be related to Ceratopsians, or could be mistaken for one. (Shown in photo).. Which were a bit bigger in size that Rhinos.
Ceratopsians are a type of dinosaur (like in the photo) that are said to still be living. There are sevral creatures said to still be living dinosaurs that have the appearance of a Ceratopsian.
Ngoubou - These are said to be another dinosaur living in the Congos that have a simular resemblance to Ceratopsians.
Remember that there were many different types of Ceratopsians, with slightly different size/builds, horns, colour, and so on.
But all still herbivours.
Kasai rex -
This dinosaur again said to be living in the Congos. This is one that interested me most. It is said to be a Carnivour with a simular resemblance to the famous Tyrannosaurus-Rex.
There were to main reports from it, both describing there expeditions to the Congos. One of the sightings said they saw it whilst eating a rhino, and described it as being redish in colour with black stripes, around 13 metres in height. The other saw it once just standing still, and he was frozen in fear but managed to take a few pictures quickly. But the creature soon darted off.
He later saw it again, eating a creature of some kind.
Some people say that these stories could have just been made up, or exadderated, BUT there are two photos to have said to exist from these reports. One looks like a hoax that could have been cut out a nature- magazine. The other is a genuine photo of what looks like T-Rex.
Unfortunately... There is no way of me obtaining this picture.
Because, of course, the governement would NEVER allow that on the internet. (grrr..)
Okay... This is blog is going on for a biut and I still have loads I could write on...
I'll just tell you of other kinds of dinosaurs that are said to still be alive.
One being a relation to the Stegosaurus. There have been a few creatures said to still be alive that are described as having spikes or ridges on there backs.
The other that i've heard many reports on ever since I first got into Cryptids was on creatures with a simular resemblence to Pterosaur. (show in picture below).
The size differs. But there seems to be sevral places with these creatures inhabiting, mainly in foresty areas. The size differs from being a big bat, to have a wing span of a few metres long.
It'd make sense that a flying dinosaur could have survived, cause they could have flew away from any danger or could have moved if climate changed.
Rightio, that's it for today, as this blog is already far to long.. haha.
I hope you enjoyed.
And now are open to the concept that dinosaurs aren't necessarily all extinct.
THEY STILL LIVE DAMNIT.
Yes..
xXx
2 comments:
Intriguing, y'know the though never actually occurred to me that some dinosaurs may have survived the extinction event. Obviously we have birds, crocodiles and other reptiles bit actual dinosaurs. It's possible we see them everyday and don't recognise them as dinosaurs, the climate on the planet today is very different, factor in 65 million years of evolution and you're gonna have something very different to what we see in the movies.
And we all know the Godzilla films are based on FACT. :)
It's interesting, but you'll forgive me when I say I don't particularly want to stumble across one.
The answer the question you posted on my blog (which I'll now shamelessly advertise...creamofstew.blogspot.com)
yes, we could feasibly build such a ship (minus some advanced technologies such as the Fusion/antimatter drive [due to Fusion remaining just out of reach and the production of antimatter occurring at a painfully slow rate], cryostasis pods [still in their infancy, give it another 20 or 30 years] and SI core [who knows how long that will take]) today, although it would need to be constructed in space, and it would definitely be an international, if not Global, project.
Once we have the currently in development technologies pinned down we should be capable of building such as ship, we have all the necessary materials and alloys strong enough to build it and hold it together, and computers capable of calculating speeds and trajectories as such.
Still, like I say, extrasolar colonisation is a long way off, we should probably establish some colonies in the solar system first.
today.
i r dinorawr x]
would love to see one, or at least see some proof that they were alive but alas the government are afraid that it could terrify people and the nature people would be all liek @NOEZ! WE MUST PUT THEM IN ZOOZ@
so it would definately be a dramatic change in the world if someone presented evidence.
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