Comments on: Beasts in the Mist – The Mapinguari

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:31:16 +0000

I agree that the Mapinguari is probably a primate, although GGSs (giant ground sloths) were probably smelly and aggressive, and we already know they were shaggy.

Why doesn’t anyone look for the Amazon tyrannosaur?
(If no one else does, I will, anyone got funding for me?)

By: bill green

bill green — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:19:55 +0000

hi everyone this a great article about the mapinguari. i hope more research done about those creatures. please keep me updated. thanks bill

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:59:14 +0000

Excellent article – Thank you craig. Someone in the Scientific community should print that out and make all the scientists read it — How do we as humans discover or make new findings for anything from new animals to even drugs that save lives– if we do not search? Its sad really, at least I think so.

P.S. Wonder if anyone is laughing at Carl Sagan now? lol

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:59:22 +0000

While in correspondence I have found Dr. David Oren humble, good-natured, and generally a good cryptozoologist, I have to agree wholeheartedly here with Craig.

Back through the work of Ivan T. Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans, the Amazon’s Mapinguari seems to reflect primate traits.

Reports of a giant ground sloth still alive, however, are frequent and appear more likely for Patagonia.