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 . . .”
Copyright 2007-2017 Jonathan David Whitcomb
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
“Universal pterosaur extinction has been
an assumption; some pterosaur species
are still living. The author . . . has been
interviewing American eyewitnesses
since 2004.”
Copyright 2007-2017 Jonathan David Whitcomb
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.
Thrilling accounts
Nonfiction book on
American Pterosaurs
Copyright 2007-2017 Jonathan David Whitcomb
