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dragonlady_mothman
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The Great Rift Valley - which was so dubbed by Scottish explorer John Walter Gregory - divides Kenya almost straight down the length of the nation, essentially separating east from west. This region is characterized by inhospitable desert, fertile farmland, flat arid plains, steep cliffs and at least one monster.

Reports of this creature (or creatures) have been sparse to say the least, but eyewitnesses have indicated that the Great Rift Valley is the home of a large, spiny-finned, carnivore, which a few cryptozoologists have speculated may actually be an animal known as the Dimetrodon grandis.

Contrary to popular belief, the Dimetrodon was not a dinosaur; rather it was a unique, mammal-like reptile, which some scientists have speculated may even have been distantly related to the human race! Notable for the large, sail-like fin which adorns its spine, this specimen from the family known as sphenacodonts, would make for a formidable sight, to say the least.

That having been said, many fortean researchers remain skeptical regarding the existence of this animal, stating that the tourist infest Kenya could not possibly conceal a creature such as this. Of course, there is precedence to the contrary, including the recently discovered Congolese primate colloquially known as the LION KILLER APE. Beyond this is the fact that Africa has long been renowned for harboring allegedly prehistoric beasts such as the MOKELE MBEMBE, EMELA-NTOUKA, and the KONGAMATO.


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BurnSide
That is not entirely correct.
The Dimetrodon indeed was not a dinosaur, and it infact died out towards the beginning of the Turassic period just before dinosaurs appeared in full and began their reign of the earth. The were infact speculated to be some of the first reptiles to emerge from the ocean.
Unless my years of book study has steered me wrong.
I don't see how they could remain alive today.
Talon
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dragonlady_mothman
QUOTE(BurnSide @ Jul 27 2005, 10:20 PM)
That is not entirely correct.
The Dimetrodon indeed was not a dinosaur, and it infact died out towards the beginning of the Turassic period just before dinosaurs appeared in full and began their reign of the earth. The were infact speculated to be some of the first reptiles to emerge from the ocean.
Unless my years of book study has steered me wrong.
I don't see how they could remain alive today.
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...that would be what would make it a cryptid, wouldn't it?

Africa seems to be a hostpot for non-extinct dinosaurs. There's Mokele Mbembe, this thingy, and something similar to Mokele I heard about thought to be either a triceratops of some kind, or a rhino.
BurnSide
Well Africa is one of the few remaining spots on the earth where such a beast could still be concealed so whenever something is spotted that cannot be identified there, it's immediately some prehistoric monster. laugh.gif
dragonlady_mothman
It's like that everywhere. Something I posted (look for one of three or so posts containint "trunko" in the title) they found something furry with no head and a trunk frozen in a block of ice.

What's the first reaction? PREHISTORIC THINGY!

The theory is that it's a decomposed wooly mammoth. Again with the prehistory.

These Dimetrodon, I can't seem to find too much on google with them, but they're popular because they're everywhere dinosaurs are. They got a cameo in the first Land Before Time movie, I had a figuring when I was a child...they've tickled my fancy since then, but I just now figured out their name because of this article.

*snoogles it*
theSOURCE
Dimetrodon is considered to be a synapsid, which means mammal-like reptile. It's more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles. Most links about Dimetrodon describe this.

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As to it still being alive, I feel that's very doubtful. no.gif
dragonlady_mothman
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Solofront
if it were alive it would have to be concealed in the dense forests of africa or asia, theres really nowhere else on this overpopulated earth no.gif
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