By Jonathan David Whitcomb
A few days ago, I got an online message from a lady who is originally from New Zealand but has lived part of her life in Papua New Guinea. Her husband was raised in the Southern Highlands Province, without contact with Westerners for some time, and knows about the two kinds of modern pterosaurs. Here is part of the wife’s account of what her husband knows about these flying creatures (with limited editing for correct English):
Hi Jonathan . . . My husband is from the Southern Highlands of PNG and has a wealth of experience / knowledge around the pterosaurs -two types – ones with no tail and with tails. He was brought up in a pre-European setting and was well aware of [the flying creatures’] presence, sounds, movement . . . Today he just told me LOTS more about these experiences! . . .
He saw them dead and alive from when he was very young. He has touched them (when dead) and used the tail to play as a sword with his friends. It had a serrated surface and so they used it as a saw on his friend’s arm. . . . [sometimes native boys play rough] . . .
When he was small [the flying creatures] were around in the jungle; his parents guarded him. When they came to the village, people would shout and take out fire to make them go away. . . .
Papua New Guinea
[From Jonathan Whitcomb] From the expeditions that my associates and I have led in Papua New Guinea, we know of two types of modern pterosaurs: The nocturnal long-tailed ropen and a type without a long tail that lives deep in the interior of western New Britain Island and probably elsewhere. The second one I call the “Western New Britain Flying Creature”.
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In live-stream mini-documentary, on the Youtube channel “Protect Animal Life”, Jonathan Whitcomb covers a number of subjects related to these astonishing featherless flying creatures, including a sighting north of Columbus, Ohio, an encounter in March of 2021.
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At least 300,000 Americans have clearly seen a modern pterosaur
Cynthia Lee, who was featured in newspaper articles in North Carolina three years ago this month, is an eyewitness. Yet her mother and uncle also had a sighting when they were kids . . .
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A Youtube “shorts” video on pterodactyls flying in Los Angeles County
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Western culture and pterosaur sightings
Over the past 17 years, I’ve received direct eyewitness reports of apparent living pterosaurs from hundreds of ordinary persons who have seen extraordinary flying creatures, and these persons come from five continents.
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Pterodactyl attack against a four-year-old girl in Oklahoma
Eighteen years earlier, in 1977, just south of New Cordell, Oklahoma, a four-year-old girl was attacked in a rural area, after her older siblings had left on a school bus. Decades later, she described the flying creature as covered with hair or fur and as big as a Volkswagon Bug.
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Popular video about modern pterosaurs
For twenty months I’ve been producing and uploading to Youtube short videos about modern living pterosaurs, what many call “pterodactyls”. The following are some of the more-popular ones on my channel Protect Animal Life.
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Living pterodactyl in Draper, Utah
For those new to this blog, a pterosaur is not actually a “flying dinosaur,” although many Americans call it by that incorrect name. It is a featherless non-bat flying creature. People several centuries ago probably mostly called them “dragons.” The big problem with the strangeness of one of those words or the phrase “flying dinosaur” is this: When a community or neighborhood might potentially be in danger, how do you warn them about a large ropen?
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