Comments on: 1901 Cryptozoology

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:04:10 +0000

The article I mentioned didn’t actually say “pteradactyl” (I didn’t mean to make it sound like it did). It was in a paper called the Tombstone Epitaph, from the 1880s, and it’s mentioned in places like Alien Animals by Janet and Colin Bord.

By: Leto

Leto — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:34:20 +0000

Would take a lot longer than “several days” for vultures to devour a 50-foot long animal.

By: busterggi

busterggi — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:06:22 +0000

“He was using bullets that would penetrate iron plate.”

What the hack was this guy supposed to be hunting? You sure don’t need armor piercing bullets to hurt gators.

Between that and the out-of-date description of the kangaroo stance, I hereby pronoun it a typical period piece hoax.

By: joppa

joppa — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:31:35 +0000

Yellow jounalism at its best.

By: jimnypivo

jimnypivo — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:48:01 +0000

I queried snopes.com (urban legends website) for both ‘Florida Dinosaur’ and Cowboy Pterodactyl’, but came up empty.

This article wasn’t from the April First edition of the paper, was it?

By: MattBille

MattBille — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:58:17 +0000

Definitely in the “almost certain hoax” category, but it would be fun if some illegally-zooming boater ran over what he thought was a manatee and the “manatee” reached a reptilian head above the water and chomped a passenger or two.

By: Sordes

Sordes — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:52:03 +0000

It sounds all like a hoax to me. The description of a reptilian kangaroo seems also very similar to the old and false reconstruction of theropods.

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:44:59 +0000

This is getting into another area, but I wish there were at least some dinosaurs in Florida (especially of certain kinds), waiting to greet the land developers. And mosasaurs instead of manatees in the paths of SOME of those jet ski drivers. (If not to attack, at least to scare them in a big way.) There was a movie called “Stanley,” a sort of “Willard” variation, about a man in Florida who trains rattlesnakes to attack poachers and land developers (instead of people at random), and something like that would make it come true.

By: calash

calash — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:28:14 +0000

Fascinating story. Unfortunately dinosaurs, other then probably birds, are separated from us by such an immense ocean of time that all we will have of these creatures is fossils. There seems to always be so much detail in reports from the 1800’s about Bigfoot and other unknown creatures. If they were so special as to warrant news articles why do we have no specimens?
I recall several months ago of some one visiting a Russian museum and in the basement there was supposedly a preserved specimen of a Sasquatch from North America. I never saw any more about this. Was there any follow-up?
Also, anything further about the Russian Bigfoot in the landscape photo from last week?
Best Regards

By: shovethenos

shovethenos — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:21:03 +0000

The picture I am talking about is the first picture in this list:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/2006-cz-pix/