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.