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Living dinosaurs around the world - sightings and theories.

Did Pterosaurs Survive Extinction?
Dozens of eyewitness accounts and a few intriguing photographs suggest that this flying monster, thought to have died with the dinosaurs, might still exist.

In Search of Living Dinosaurs
For over 100 years, explorers have been told tantalizing tales of living, breathing dinosaurs that still inhabit remote areas of African rain forest. Could they be true?

African Pterodactyls
Several eyewitness accounts are provided here of what some think are living pterodactyls in Africa. Or are they some other unknown creature?

Jurassic Art
Another site about the enigmatic Ica Stones that depict people and dinosaurs together, an ancient man with a telescope, etc. Some good photos.

Kongamato - Flying Demons of the Forbidden Swamps
There are reports that people have been seeing flying creatures that match the description of pterosaurs for a long time. People have even been, reportedly, killed by them.

Mokele M'Bembe: Hunt for Living Dinosaur
Recounts the story of the primitive tribe in the Congo that identified a long-necked dinosaur as living in their river.

On the Trail of the Brontosaurus
This article recounts some encounters by various explorers with Africa's mystery animals.

Pterosaurs and Kongamatos
Although the pterosaur is believed by most to have become extinct with the dinosaurs, some have been occasionally spotted in the American southwest and Africa.

Pterosaurs in Texas
In 1976, a patrolling policeman near San Benito, Texas, claims he saw an animal flying around that looked for all the world like a pterosaur.

Rhamphorhynchoid Pterosaur: "Living Fossil" til 17th Century
Article attempts to establish the recent existence of this pterosaur that that mainstream science believes became extinct about 140 million years ago.

The Quest for Thylacoleo
The search for odd-looking animals that inhabit a forest in Australia - Thylacoleo carnifex, a marsupial predator thought to have gone extinct long ago.

Stegodont Elephant?
Has a huge, prehistoric species of elephant survived in Nepal? Allegedly, it has been seen and photographed. (No photos here though.)

Was a Mokele-Mbembe Killed at Lake Tele?
Author William Gibbons confirms that at least two pygmies were directly involved in the killing of a mokele-mbembe at Lake Tele about three decades ago.

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