Gynormous larkosuros Discovered
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 1st, 2008
They, in turn, forwarded the picture to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, which is where Cape Cod keeps all of its smart people. Woods Hole sent a team, led by famed archeologist, Dr. A. J. Oke, to the site. Within an hour Dr. Oke confirmed that the January storm had exposed one of the largest flying dinosaurs ever discovered. This huge creature is known to paleontologists as “Gynormous larkosuros” and is thought to have been 17 feet long, with a 25-foot wingspan. Suddenly, every ancient bone-freak in the world was headed to Orleans. Source for the rest of the story…
Hint to solve this mystery: Translate the name and note today’s date.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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There was one?
Didn’t Dr olarf adiss already prove that this was a poor attempt at fakery made by suspected local children, using otters swimming in a line, a few logs floating to the surface and some pelicans flying in a group?
No, I’ve heard of these before. Scientists believe they evolved from white pelicans who fed on otters, swooping down (in a line) to grab them off floating logs. They eventually grew larger and also diversified their food source to include giant eels, rare freshwater whales and disembodied tentacles.
Thanksabunch, Loren …
Now excuse me while I clean my morning coffee off my screen
Happy April Fool’s Day Loren!
Sooooo. This was an April fools day joke. Or did these things really exist.?
Waka waka waka! 😀
A pterodactyl with mange.
Now, just a minute here…
Oh – April Fo-
Nev-ver mind!
It’s obviously a big-footed plesiosaur in a bone costume…
Great one there, Loren!!!