Questions and Answers

About Living Pterosaurs

Question: How big do modern pterosaurs get?

 

Answer:   Most eyewitnesses describe creatures that are

                 large compared with flying birds. A few reports

                 indicate living pterosaurs may grow to have a

                 wingspan as great as thirty feet or even more.

 

Question: Are some of them dangerous?

 

Answer:   There have been a few reports of attacks on the

                 mainland of Papua New Guinea. A few human

                 deaths have resulted.

 

Question: Where can I read more about living pterosaurs?

 

Answer:   There are many web sites:

 

Native Eyewitnesses:

 

          Jonah Jim saw a glowing ropen fly overhead near

          his home on Umboi Island.

 

          Jacob Kepas, when he was a 12-year-old boy, saw

          a glowing seklo-bali fly over his village.

 

          Gideon Koro, and six of his friends, were terrified

          by a giant ropen that flew over a lake one day.

 

American Eyewitnesses:

 

          Duane Hodgkinson saw a giant “pterodactyl,” in

          1944, just west of Finschhafen, New Guinea.

 

          Paul Nation saw and videotaped two indava lights

          as they were about to fly away from a ridge deep

          in the mountainous interior of the mainland of

          Papua New Guinea (near Tawa Village).

 

Australian Eyewitnesses:

 

          Brian Hennessy saw a “primitive” flying creature,

          with a long tail, on Bougainville Island, Papua New

          Guinea. Hennessy is a psychologist.

 

          A couple was taking a walk in Perth, Australia,

          when they were shocked to see a giant “lizard-like”

          creature flying overhead: wingspan of 30-50 feet.

 

Philosophies and Theories about living pterosaurs are

related, according to evolution and creation models.

 

Living pterosaurs have various names in Papua New Guinea.

 

Critics of the idea of live pterosaurs are answered.

 

A pterosaur (or strange creature like one) was seen flying over

a remote swamp in South Carolina (clear visibility at 3:00 p.m.)

 

Judge the credibility of the Umboi Island eyewitnesses.

 

Are dragons pterosaurs?    What about a hoax?

 

What happened to pterosaurs? (They’re not extinct.)

 

Learn about the Creationist perspective on living pterosaurs.

(This includes ideas about how species survived extinction,

why the Mesozoic objection is unsound, and how the General

Theory of Evolution related to Creation.)

 

The New Britain creature may be a Pterodactyloid.

Question: Why don’t biology textbooks have anything

                  about living pterosaurs?

 

Answer:    Modern pterosaurs are cryptids, meaning that

                  they are not acknowledged in zoology, even

                  though they are known in cryptozoology.

 

Question: Why do we not see pterosaurs flying around?

 

Answer:   Whatever species of pterosaurs that now live

                  are rare compared with many birds and bats,

                  and at least some of them are nocturnal.

 

Question: How does anyone know they exist?

 

Answer:   Eyewitnesses from a number of cultures give

                 testimonies of pterosaur sightings.

 

Question: Why are the sightings not in the news?

 

Answer:   The Western news media covers reports within

                  the context of Western culture, which includes

                  a deeply-held opinion that all dinosaurs and

                  pterosaurs became extinct long ago.

 

Question: Does anybody hunt for living pterosaurs?

 

Answer:  For many years, there have been expeditions

                 in Papua New Guinea, where many people

                 have reported the creatures.

 

Question: What kind of pterosaurs are living?

 

Answer:  Many reports include a description of a long

                 tail; some include a head appendage. This has

                 led some investigators to propose that there

                 are Rhamphorhynchoids still alive.

 

Question: Are there any photographs available?

 

Answer:  As of early February, 2008, the only images

                available that are promoted by investigators

                are video shots of distant lights without any

                features visible.

 

Question: How could pterosaurs have survived into

                  modern times?

 

Answer:   Most living-pterosaur investigators are Young-

                 Earth-Creationists, meaning they do not believe

                 that pterosaurs, or  any other life, lived millions

                 of years ago, so this question is answered in

                 a different way by those of different beliefs.

 

Question: Where do they live?

 

Answer: Many are reported in Papua New Guinea. They

               have many names: ropen, indava, seklo-bali,

               wawanar, duwas. There have also been some

                reports of pterosaurs in the United States,

                including Texas, Ohio, South Carolina, and

                California. In Africa, there is a creature

                called by the natives “kongamato.”