Ok, since everyone is on a dinosaur thing, I figured we should try to list all known cryptid dinosaurs and their possible species.

Heres the two I can remember so far:

1) Mokele Membe (sp?) - sauropod
2) Kasai Rex - an allosaurid super predator?

Oh yeah, and links to any info on them if anyone has any available.

Don't forget dinos in babylon. Some think they could have exsisted until the days of mesopotamia. But that probably doesn't count.
There is Kongamoto, a pterodactly believe to believing in the Congo(always Africa). Megalania was a komodo dragon-like reptile that was the size of a cow and lived during the ice age in Auatrailia.

Nessie might be a plesiosaur.

uh, dinosaurs only, yall.....pterodactlys and pliosaurs dont count....didnt i hear about some dinos in south america one time?...yes, a sauropod type fellow, i believe.....*investigation in process*...and theres that dinosaur in delmere forest in england hammy posted a topic about.....

What dinosaur in Delmere forest?

Pteradactyls and plesiosaurs are dinosaurs...

Mate they lived during the dinosaur period making them dinosaurs.Sorry to burst your bubble.Simple as that.

erm..no,did i say that?.Pterodactyls are classified as dinosaurs,by historians and scientists alike.I believe them to be dinosaurs,you can have your opinions all you like,but these are mine

tell em, naveed!!!firstman, thats like saying whales and bats are canines just because they are both mammals.....

Well actually no it isn't mudboot man.Because i am no expert on dinosaurs,i was offering my opinion,i am allowed to here,that is the whole point.And so i stand corrected,not my damn fault is it.

Perhaps instead of childish bickering over what is or is not defined as a dinosaur, we could expand the topic to include cryptid megabeasts, ie sauropods (if that is the scientifically correct term) that should otherwise be extinct, or that may not have been identified through fossil records yet...

This would include anything from prehistoric creatures such as the pterosaur, plesiosaur, and dinosaur, and possibly others.

To this point, we have:

1. Mokele Mbembe
2. Kasai Rex(Allosaur?)
3. Kongamoto-Pterodactyl(?)
4. The Loch Ness Monster-possible Plesiosaur
5. The Lake Champlain Monster-Possible Plesiosaur
6. The Delmere Forest Monster-possible Allosaurid or Megalosaur


Any other prehistoric reptillian cryptids? A 60 foot long prehistoric croc, perhaps?

Komodo dragons? are they related perhaps?

i found this link dont know how well it will help but i hope it does

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mrbig2001/L...ptozooology.htm

DINOS RULE!!!

hey, naveed, just saw a show last night on a mastodon relative, but i decided to post a seperate thread on it, youll want to read it, its called raja gaj.

I once saw some show on PBS talking about how mastadons may have remained alive on remote Arctic islands (particularly near the Alaskan coast) up to a couple thousand years ago. How many thousands of years? I don't remember exactly, but it was less than 6000. So than means mastadons could've been around at the same time as the dawning of human civilization, but humans probably didn't interact with them because they were removed from the mainland.

As for the bickering...I don't know if it's just me, but after a nearly 2-month hiatus, I've come back to the forums and everyone seems to have gotten downright cranky! What changed, or was I just away for too long?

We're NOT cranky!!!!!!

I doubt very much single creatures could survive, you would need a large community of "creatures" to keep the species alive. Therefore it would be much more likely that we would see more of these things rather than a few hazy recollections. (and something as big as a dino saur can't be that hard to miss surely?)

some of the islands on the panhandle are kinda out there. You're lucky to see people every three or four months and that's only in fishing season.

Heard a story once about a Japanese soldier that got stranded on one for six years durring WWII. No idea if it was true though.

And I remember hearing not all dinos were huge. Some were only the size of a chicken. Those could hide in the brush.

sowwy.

*Giggles* Time for more coffee... or a nap.

Arent birds descended from dinosaurs? Ostriches and emus look like feathered dinosaurs. (Oh yes, Jurassic park, thats where I got it from!)
I think that however the dinosaurs were wiped out, only the flying pterosaurs survived. And the larger ones became ground dwelling with the sudden decline in predators.
This is why I think that the 'Thunderbird' story is one of the most plausible of the extinct cryptids. As it cant have been that long ago ostriches could actually fly.

i know of one which is pure fact!

the tuatara, it has been living on earth for about 200 million years!

around 60 million years ago they became extinct everywhere except new zealand.

and the best bit is that they have a third eye which baffles scientists as they cannot relate the exact function of it.

scientists call these creatures living fossils, so they fall into the catagory of dinosaurs even though they are still around.

why not?

they have been around that long and they are not lizards they fall into a completely different catagory!

Ambyglam1 is right, they are living fossils but they are not a dinosaur. We can't consider it a cryptic since we know it does exist. The url below gives a full description of the Tuatara.
Tuatara

however, if u said to most people, do u think that a three eyed dinosaur is living on the earth, i think they would say no!

i think more people have heard of the loch ness monster than tautara!

the book i have states that they are NOT lizards that they are a completely different type of species all together, and that there are two species.

so u cant go round saying that thay are something that they are not, it really aggrivates me when people talk like they know something they dont! lol

maybe the hole in dino skulls is where they had a third eye?

Dont know if its got anything to do with anything, but....

triops and sea monkeys have three eyes! They are supposed to have been around since dinosaur times. Sea monkeys have one central eye at birth, then as they mature, two more grow either side and the middle one drops out!
I love my triops and sea monkeys, theyre cool

but remember, 'just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down!'

Since the early 1980's several scientific expeditions have searched for conclusive evidence that the mokele mbembe really exists. One investigator, Roy Mackal, a professor of zoology at Chicago University, took teams to the Congo in 1980 and 1981 to search for the elusive creature. Although they failed to encounter the beast, they collected important anecdotal evidence, including information on its primary food source, a type of vine. In 1985 and 1992 British explorer Bill Gibbons added further local reports to the ever growing dossier. Mokele - mbembe may not be the only living dinosaur inhabiting the Congo. One is a Triceratops like monster called emela ntouka.
The other is mbielu mbielu mbielu, a bizarre creature described as having planks growing out of its back, which the pygmies identify with
Stegosaurus. Could some dinosaurs have defied evolution and still be living in the Congolese swamplands? Only future explorations will tell. But it is hard to discount these myths out of hand, especially when stories of cryptozoological creatures come from all over the planet.

so.