Top 10 – Most Shocking

By investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb

I’ve just uploaded a video to Youtube: “Top Ten Shocking Facts on Modern Pterosaurs.” I’ll list only three of them here but will go into a few more details than are found in that video, beginning with the least shocking:

Fact #10

In Western cultures, we have three kinds of fear, including an occasional fear of one of these flying creatures, for some of them are large and may be dangerous; in some non-Western countries, the only fear an eyewitness is likely to have is that fear of the animal.

What are the other two kinds of fear? Western eyewitnesses often fear what other persons might think when told about the sighting, or the eyewitness may fear that he or she had lost the ability to perceive accurately or even that some kind of insanity may exist, even if only temporary.

From the video “Shocking Pterodactyl Facts – Top 10”

Fact #8

Not all paleontologists or biologists believe that it’s impossible for a species of pterosaur to still be alive. In fact, one biologist has searched for living pterosaurs in both North America and in Papua New Guinea: Peter Beach.

I videotaped the two men seen below, while we were by the Yakima River in southeastern Washington state a few years ago. That image of them is from my video footage. They pointed out to me where they saw the flying creatures at night, apparently as the animals were catching fish.

Milt Marcy (left) and Peter Beach at the Yakima River (from the video)

#6

Most modern pterosaurs have long tails and appear to be descendants of some type of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur. What is shocking about that? This kind of pterosaur is believed, by any paleontologists, to have been much more common in the earliest history of those flying creatures, not nearly so numerous after the short-tailed ones had become dominant in the skies.

 

In Conclusion

Don’t miss the Youtube video itself. Discover the #1 most shocking fact about these astonishing flying creatures: how many Americans now living have had a clear sighting of a pterosaur.

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Living Pterosaurs Greatly Liked in Videos

The eleven most recently uploaded videos on my Youtube channel Protect Animal Life—those have had 68 likes and no dislikes from viewers, as of early October 2, 2019.

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Press release on living pterosaurs

Using 161 sighting reports, which Whitcomb chose after eliminating ones that had too much potential for misidentification of a bird, he found that California and Texas had the most, at 27 and 11, but he ascribed that to higher human populations in those two states.

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