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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.”
.
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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.”
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)
Youtube channel Protect Animal Life
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Jonathan Whitcomb