Live Pterosaur Media Center
Newspaper Articles
Newspaper   articles   about   reports   of   living   pterosaurs   vary   as   widely   as   the exposures   and   perspectives   of   the   editors   and   reporters.   The   eyewitness accounts   or   press   releases   that   elicited   the   newspaper   articles—those   also vary.   In   the   past   seven   years,   several   newspapers   have   mentioned   the   work of   the   Jonathan   Whitcomb,   who   never   varies   from   proclaiming   that   some species of pterosaurs are not extinct but still living. The   Houston   Chronicle ,   by   circulation   the   ninth   largest   newspaper   in   the United   States,   pulled   away   the   welcome   mat   to   “flying   dinosaurs”   that   might want    to    fly    over    southwest    Texas;    it    emphasized    Whitcomb’s    lack    of credentials   and   experience.   But   What’s   going   on   in   Marfa? ”   (December 19,    2010    issue)    was    elicited    by    the    press    release    “Unmasking    a    Flying Predator   in   Texas,”   which   was   written   by   Whitcomb   after   he   had   received, over   several   years,   eyewitness   reports   of   apparent   living   pterosaurs   in Texas, from citizens of Texas. The Houston Chronicle  writer failed to mention that. The    Press    Telegram ,    the    leading    daily    newspaper    in    the    Long    Beach, California,   area,   on   October   28,   2004,   featured   an   article,   under   “Travel Tales,”   on   Whitcomb’s   late-2004   expedition   in   Papua   New   Guinea:   “Court videographer   seeks   truth   of   bygone   creature.”   But   a   critical   point   was   his conviction   that   the   creature   still   lives,   that   pterosaurs   still   fly   (otherwise   he would   never   have   traveled   to   Papua   New   Guinea);   he   did   not   choose   the   title that included the word “bygone.” The   Antwerp   Bee-Argus ,   a   weekly   newspaper   in   Ohio,   on   August   5,   2009, published   a   front-page   article   about   a   local   sighting   by   a   man   who   was   later interviewed   by Whitcomb.   It   was   fair   to   the   possibility   that   the   man   had   seen what   he   declared   he   had   seen;   but   the   title   on   that   front-page   article   included the misspelling of “pterosaur.”                                                           . The opinions expressed are those of Jonathan David Whitcomb. Media professionals may use these paragraphs in whole or in part for news distribution. Some of the images on this page may also be used by the news media (click on image).
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Press Telegram (Long Beach, California), October 28, 2004
South Coast of Umboi Island  near where Abram and David Mokay saw the ropen light on two separate occasions
“The Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur tail is mostly inflexible except at the base where it connects to the body of the creature. This is in harmony with findings by the Woetzel-Guessman expedition of 2004, regarding the ropen of Umboi Island.”
Antwerp Bee-Argus (Ohio), August 5, 2009, front page
The Press Telegram article:   “On Oct. 15, I returned to Long Beach after spending two weeks on Umboi Island in Papua New Guinea. The main reason I went to this remote tropical island was to investigate reports of a large, nocturnal flying creature that the local people call ropen. I came back with notes and video from interviewing about 17 eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen this elusive creature that is the subject of many island legends. . . .” [That was written in 2004, before Whitcomb became a professional writer]
The Houston Chronicle article:   “. . . Just the other day reporters and editors around the country received an email about California videographer and self-described cryptozoologist Jonathan Whitcomb. “. . . Whitcomb’s theory about the lights? He thinks they may be flying dinosaurs.”  [The “email” was a press release. Whitcomb never himself refers to pterosaurs as “flying dinosaurs” except as one of the names that some persons use for the creatures.]
The Ohio newspaper article:    “STRANGE FLYING CREATURE SEEN NEAR ANTWERP” “A young man was reported to have seen something strange flying over the Maumee River in the summer of 2003; he described it like a pterosaur, according to a recently published book, “Live Pterosaurs in America.” It was reported to be chasing sparrows as it flew over the Route 49 bridge . . .”
Jonathan Whitcomb introduces you to newspaper articles on living pterosaurs in this Youtube mini-documentary video
You can get the details here, on the new Youtube video “Living Pterosaurs - in newspapers” (with Jonathan Whitcomb)
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