Dinosaur Bird
AKA Pterosaur
Dinosaur Birds - Extant Pterosaurs
Cryptozoology Book
Quoting from a
"In Papua New Guinea, it is known by many names: "ropen,"
"duwas," "indava," and "kor." But what shocks many Americans
and Europeans are eyewitness reports that these supposedly
"ancient" and "extinct" flying creatures are alive and well
and even flying over our heads on rare occasions."
"How are sightings in the United States related to those
in the southwest Pacific? How do some apparent nocturnal
pterosaurs pertain to bats, and how are bats irrelevant?
How could modern living pterosaurs have escaped scientific
notice? These mysteries have slept in the dark, beyond the
knowledge of almost all Americans, even beyond our wildest
dreams (although the reality of some pterosaurs is a living
nightmare to some bats). These mysteries have slept . . .
until now." [Live Pterosaurs in America, second edition]
Dinosaur Bird by Another Word
"We who have searched for it in Papua New Guinea call this
creature by the name known on Umboi Island: “ropen.” With
hundreds of cultures and languages in P.N.G., a real living
creature should have different names among different cultures.
This is the case, with other names for large nocturnal flying
creatures being duwas, kundua, seklobali (or seklo-bali),
indava, and wawanar. But all these names might refer to only
one or two species.
“R.K., of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, reports that the
glowing nocturnal flying creature of those northern islands
is called “kor.” Descriptions strongly suggest that they are
at least similar to the ropen of Umboi Island, perhaps the
same species: glowing with various colors, a long tail,
“skin all over it,” and a few creatures growing to a large
size. . . .”
What do you call a prehistoric or primitive flying creature with no feathers? Some call it a
“dinosaur bird” and others a “pterodactyl.” It’s not really a flying dinosaur; call it “pterosaur.”
Dragons and Dinosaur Birds
Some of the explorers and researchers, especially David
Woetzel and Jonathan Whitcomb, have written about the
possibilities of dragon legends coming from old sightings
of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs, what some modern people
in Western countries might call “dinosaur birds.” Long
tails and a lack of feathers, on those apparently real
flying creatures, rule out misidentifications of birds
and bats known to science.
Jonathan Whitcomb, of California, explored part
of Umboi Island in 2004, searching for the cryptid
or pterosaur called by the natives “ropen.” He is
the author of two cryptozoology books: Searching
for Ropens, and Live Pterosaurs in America. The
third edition of his first book will be retitled
“Searching for Dragons,” when it it published,
probably late in 2011.
With a young native of Umboi Island, Paul Nation,
of Texas, is shown crossing a river. He searched
for the elusiove ropen in 2002.