Live Pterodactyls - New Branch of Cryptozoology
How could living pterosaurs escape the notice of scientists for centuries? Two words: "nocturnal," "rare." But
something else has prevented the discovery of these amazing animals: dogmatism of standard biology.
Why Believe?
Beware of the dogma that bites the hand that feeds it: Human experience makes all real scientific progress
possible, so do not allow any apparent scientist to ridicule common human experiences that seem to
contradict long-standing assumptions held by scientists. Real science involves not just clever imagination but
experience. It is one thing to imagine pterosaurs becoming extinct millions of years ago; quite another thing it
is to ridicule someone who reports observing one alive. It really is a choice: to really listen.
Experience makes science possible. The sighting of what seems to be a living pterosaur does not force any
professor to either ignore it or find a non-pterosaur explanation. When a number of eyewitnesses report the
same kind of apparent pterosaur, reason demands that someone investigates why this is so.
Live Pterosaurs in America - 3rd edition
From the title page: “Reports of huge flying ‘pterodactyls’ in
American skies have floated around the internet for years; but
before about 2005, details were scarce. . . . Where could
eyewitnesses go? What a predicament for them! Who would
believe their reports? . . .”
From the back cover of Live
Pterosaurs in America
“. . . Americans, for years, have
reported obvious living pterosaurs,
with sightings in Washington state,
California, New Mexico, Texas,
Ohio, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Georgia, Florida, South Carolina,
Rhode Island, Maine, New York,
Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia,
Kansas, Indiana . . . [etc]”
Marfa Lights of Texas
“The movement of the center of
the formation (I believe that’s how
he put it) seems to me consistent
with a group of large predators
moving across an area slowing,
while hunting. He also saw one of
these lights fl close to the MLVP
one night, scurrying around in
some bushes ‘like an animal.’ What
if it . . . was an animal?” [page 83]
Eyewitness reports
"Living pterosaur investigations,
mostly by a handful of Americans,
have given us more and more
eyewitness testimonies, with
limited occasional direct evidence.
Critics have continued to dismiss
eyewitnesses because 'somebody'
should have seen a large pterosaur,
if they still exist." [page 112]
Pterosaur-like cryptids
Living pterosaurs? How could they now be living in California, Texas, Florida, South
Carolina, Ohio, New York, and many other states? Did not pterosaurs become extinct
millions of years ago? Cryptozoology is the study of reports of creatures (or apparent
creatures) whose descriptions suggest something other than animals classified by
standard biology as extant. But biology textbooks list pterosaurs as long-extinct, so why
give reports of living creatures credence? Part of the answer is that cryptozoology is not
a branch of zoology. An attitude shouting for the sleeping biologist to get his face off the
dusty table—that’s what this is: cryptozoology.
Nonfiction book on
American Pterosaurs
Thrilling accounts
From page 17: “In July of 2008, I received a phone call
from a man who . . . described the dark gray or black
animal as 30 feet long, with 15-16 feet of that being a
tail. He saw the creature fly ‘at low altitude,’ in front of
his car, over the road (Campus Drive), into the San
Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, in daylight . . .”
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