QUOTE (zandel @ Apr 18 2008, 09:58 PM)

I will definately have to research more into this pterodactyl business! sounds like it could be interesting. And for some reason, scooby doo 2 keeps popping into my head...
Since you are from Arizona you should check out the pictograph called Anasazi Black Dragon. It does look something like a pterodactyl, that the indians believed was a thunderbird.
The problem with the modern sightigs, althugh they are credible, is if the creature was only a peanut brained pterosaur, it would not have the intlellligence to hide, and would have had to have been seen more than just those few times, since it would have to hunt for food. If a normal flesh and blood animal, they would have had to have had a breeding population somewhere for the 65 million years since the KT event. yet know remains have been found.
If people really did see a giant winged reptile, maybe there was some kind of 'time warp' and the creature returned the same way, or it may be some unknown lifeform connected supernatural/religion for those who believe, and was called a pterodactly instead of using a more fanciful name.