Has anyone ever heard of the legend of this big dino who lives in africa somewhere and haunts and scares even terrorizes the local people , im interested because i once saw a program about it on tv

Errmm... yes I heard about this fella, but I'm a bit skeptic.

On the other hand, the last dinosaur became extinct only 15,000 years ago, so who knows...

Yep i've heard of it, supposedly on the congo river, overturns the odd boat and scares the hell outta the locals

What is interesting about this is that many of the stories that allegedly came from the natives concerning the behaviour of the beast mimic what scientists used to think of sauropod behaviour back in the days, but now consider to be incorrect. There were stories of the animals reaching up to the tops of trees with their necks, while today scientists do not believe the long neck could have supported the weight vertically, and stories of the animal lounging in the swamplands, when today people think they lived on dry land instead.

In short, there is more evidence that the legend was created by the explorers than by the natives.

They say this creature is a herbivore. "Living in the jungles of central Africa countries of Congo, Cameroon, and Gabon are reports of animal an animal with a long neck, a long tail, and rounded shape tracks with three claws. The closest known animal that has these characteristics is a sauropod dinosaur."
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Skeptic view!

There seems to be alot of reports of dinosaur-like creatures and I'm starting to doubt they're complete extinction.

It doesn't neccesary have to be a dinosaur - it could be a reptile that evolved to look similiar, maybe a lizard or something.
Actually, I would be surprised if no reptile evolved to a shape similiar to some dinosaurs, as no matter how the climate changed on earth, dinosaurs were the most successfull creation for tens of millions of years.

Or maybe it is a giant long-neck tutrle, like these ones:

hmm, I don't know about that. People never describe a shell on Mokele Mbembe. Its always said to have smooth leathery red skin, but no shell. and when showed drawings of sauropods they identify them as Mokele Mbembe. Mokele also has a long tail. Interesting theory though

everyone on this forum heard about the mokele mbembe. its so cool

that is the only unexplained mystery i am 100% that it is true

i love the idea that a dinosaur could still be alive somewhere in the world

but...

i can't see a dinosaur surviving until the present day....

I agree with mr halo.

I too do not believe that dinosaurs, other than birds, have survived to this day. What could be possible is that a reptile evolved into something similiar, becuase the conditions in the Congo forest are similiar to those of the dinosaur ages.

Yes, but crocodiles have lived in the same environments for millions of years and have hardly changed at all.

True, but Crocodiles and Sea turtles (another reptile that survived to this day) managed to survive because of the wide range of their leaving envirement. There was this show on the National Geographic channel some year ago, and the crocodiles are equipted with number of features that helped them become the perfect survivors that they are today.

Frogs and other reptiles have been around just as long as Crocs and Sea Turtles. What do you account their survival to?

They were small and fast moving.
Sauropods were anything but small.

I could understand if theropods, which did have some small species, could survive to this day. As a matter of fact, birds, which are theropods, survived mainly because they were small and fast and could go from one envierment to next quite fast. This too though didn't help many birds who became extinct with other theropods 65 million years ago.

But Sauropods were just too big and heavy to survive such a drastic change.

And also many reptiles did become extinct with the dinos, the reptiles we see today are only small percentage that did make it.

I read a lot about Mokele mbembe. Initially it seemed to me possible the presence of a dinosaur in unexplored areas of Africa. However, several serious expeditions had failed in finding any evidence of the existence of this cryptid. Furthermore, they found contradictions in the stories of some of people that claimed to have whatched it....so I am exceptical now.

What I am sure is that in the swamps of Congo there are many undiscovered species ready to be discovered provided it is a huge unexplored area of difficult access with very high biodiversity.

they are small and can hide..

also frogs have been known to survive inside a rock...in a sort of hibernation..

^ Yes in the winter, they shut their bodies down and freeze themselves until the weather is warm enough for them to thaw out.

I believe that something terrible happned - for example a meteor, creatures living in the water were able to withstand the years of darkness and duststorms. This is a good explination for fresh water creature like frogs and crocs. but im not shore about the dinos of the salt water kind!!
What happened to them may i ask....? any ideas dudes?

devvo, it's not just the dinos. Any big air-breathing animal became extinct by whatever killed the dinosaurs.
Turtles, crocs etc. weren't very big and thus were able to survive.
If whales were to exist back then, they would have become extinct as well.

This is the reason why plesiosauros and maosaurs and other big air-breathing reptiles became extinct.

Sharks, on the other hand, and many kinds of fish, were able to survive, because they weren't affected by what happened outside the oceans.

the natives have also identified elephants, hippos, and lions as 'mokele mombe'.
anyway, theres a couple other threads on mokele around the boards.

maybe the creature is just a elephant, i mean maybe they keep seeing elephants in the water with their trunks sticking out, and maybe the story has just been passed down over the years and exaggerated....

who knows...

I know! in cameroon if you ask the natives to show you a mokele mbembe they probably will. except you have to go threw miles and miles of swamps but in the end you will see one. not in congo though because of they think mokele mbembe are cursed. they are definetly not elephants because other people than natives saw them. guys stop inventing stupid excuses to explain weird stuff please just accept it

Maybe it is a forest elephant.
They are much smaller than savanah elephants (rarely exeed 3m, usually about 2.5m), and they live in African jungles.
Maybe it was this forest elephant, which is known to spend many hours in lakes, which they thought to be a dinosaur.

maybe mokele mbmembe means "big animal". Tho Moe does not speak this language, he has seen many such things that fit this description. ne of them is named Shaq.

maybe its a new kind of giant elephant or hippo

mokele mbembe means "one that stops the flow of river"

so it means dam then....

yes and why do you laugh?

because i do...

sorry....

i wonder if the creature really can stop the river, that would be so odd to see

i dont think it can stop rivers because it isnt really big like a brachiosorus its more elephant's size but however it is probably big and dangerous. dude you should know that you are the one that gave me links about chupas,mokele mbembe and mothman for a work at school. most of the information i know are from these sites

i'm glad my links to information were useful