Online Resources for Pterosaur and Pterodactyl

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Do a Google search with “pterodactyl” and see how many pages come up with one of the following:

  • Music
  • “A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest”
  • “enjoyment and practice of creating art”
  • Foul language and “comics”
  • A video game
  • “Enchanted Learning Software”

“Pterodactyl” is even the name for a particular series of opening moves in the ancient game of chess. I have one recommendation, for those who are interesting in the possibility of living pterosaurs in modern times (maybe save yourself a Google search):

Pterodactyl

This YouTube video features my friend and associate Garth Guessman and the World War II veteran Duane Hodgkinson. My friend interviewed the old veteran a few years ago, and the videotaped interview I put up on YouTube. Here is part of what I wrote about Hodgkinson’s encounter, quoted from the second edition of my book Searching for Ropens:

Hodgkinson was interviewed in person by Garth Guessman (another American ropen investigator) in June of 2005, and he revealed more details about the sighting . . . [It] occurred at about noon, west of Finschhafen . . . The creature, which Hodgkinson first assumed was a bird, flew up from the edge of the clearing and, as it circled, fifty to one hundred feet above the men, presented a “perfect side view” of itself—obviously no bird.

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Now if you do a Google search with “pterosaur” the irrelevancies will be much fewer than with “pterodactyl.” Still, here is my recommendation:

Pterosaur

This home page has been recently revised: It is now much more informative, attractive, and inviting. Sub-topics include the following:

Paul Nation’s Indava Expedition

The two lights in that video were strange indeed: not car headlights, not flashlights, not camp fires, not meteors, in fact nothing ordinary. On the other hand, eyewitnesses describe a giant flying creature.

Psychologist Sees a Pterosaur (a brief overview)

An eyewitness of a long-tailed living pterosaur on the island of Bougainville, New Guinea, in 1971 . . .

Kongamato of Africa

“The boy was walking from one mud-brick hut to another, one night in 1988 . . . he noticed something on the roof of his uncle’s hut. A creature was perched on the edge of the roof, lit up by the nearby porth light. The winged creature appeared to be four-to-five feet tall, olive brown, and leathery with no feathers . . .”

Living Pterosaurs and Dragons

“The Marfa Lights of southwest Texas have been compared with the flying lights of Papua New Guinea and with the Wawanar legend near southwest New Britain Island. . . .”