Comments on: Finding Mokele-mbembe, the Ultimate Trip

By: Freelancer

Freelancer — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:51:37 +0000

I think if Mokele-mbembe is proven, without a doubt, to exist, it will be a major break through in the study of all cryptids. Because if a dinosaur exists in this day & age, why not a bipedal ape or a large lake creature? Or any of the other cryptids for that matter.

By: wallychumblatt

wallychumblatt — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:19:45 +0000

Of all the expeditions, both ‘mainstream’ scientific and by cryptid explorers, couldn’t some of these folks club together and fit an thermal imaging camera / gimbal to a plane and do a survey?

By: gazilla

gazilla — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:08:12 +0000

There is much noise over the years from scientific factions who are in no possible doubt that it would be impossible for a sauropod, or dinosaur for that matter, to be alive and kicking in the Congo, and all of the publicised environmental issues recently have only seemed to reinforce this point.

Yet I find it hard to consider, in fact as much as any of the aforementioned find it hard to consider, that the biological, geomorpholigical and environmental conditions today(and in the time that there has been an interest in the Congolese dinosaur tradition)point conclusively to the absolute that there is no mileage.

Think about it – an area of jungle and swampland that is still relatively unchartered and uncompromised, that has evolved in a manner that has allowed its natural fauna and flora to adapt and move at the same pace – then why not?

Science has always maintained that within any undertaking to definition and discovery, there has to be elements of chance, romance and good old fashioned commitment and spirit. Where would the scientific community, and indeed mankind today, be without that.

I think that it would make the most perfect sense for a sauropod that is so strongly rumoured to still survive to be in the Congo – where better. Even if it comes to light one day that it conclusively did not exist, this would only be after exhaustive attempts, and ones that satisfied every deemed credible criteria.

That being so, the original idea would have proven a worthwhile undertaking all along, as science must take the yoke of proving, as it tries all too often in cryptozoological matters to only want the sunshine of easy scepticism.

Mokele Mbembe has always seemed to me to be a more than credible cryptid, and so the efforts made in trying to realise this should only confirm to the scientific community that there is a more than legitimate rationale.

All power to ya John – can’t wait for the book.

Gary O’Donnell

By: rryanreid

rryanreid — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:27:59 +0000

is there any more update on this trip?

By: John Kirk

John Kirk — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:38:09 +0000

All depictions of the Diplodocus we showed the witnesses had the nostrils above the mouth. This was never contradicted by any of our informants.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:11:46 +0000

Since the 19th century, artists’ renderings—based on paleontologists’ conceptions—have shown the nostrils of Diplodocus drawn on the top of their heads. This position was thought to be accurate for semi-aquatic dinosaurs such as Diplodocus, but recent findings maintain that the nostrils are in fact right above the mouth. This the discovery of research of Ohio University’s paleontologist Lawrence Witmer. John, I would assume that the eyewitness you mention confirmed this location for the nostrils?