Dino-Do-Dahs for Darren!
Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 1st, 2011
Darren Naish, Ph. D. has this posted for April 1st, 2011:
Today sees the publication of what is surely the century’s most significant zoological discovery. After decades of searching, Africa’s mystery Congolese swamp monster, the Mokele-Mbembe, has been discovered – it is a living sauropod dinosaur, and it radically alters our understanding of archosaur phylogeny, sauropod biology and diversity, and indeed the evolutionary process as a whole.Darren Naish, Ph. D.
Read more, here.
Some illustrations with his piece include these:
Okay, push that meal from in front of you, especially if you are a meat-eater. Here come Darren’s anatomy images of the new Mokele-Mbembe:
Darren Naish (born 1975) is a serious vertebrate palaeontologist and science writer. He obtained a geology degree at the University of Southampton and later studied vertebrate palaeontology under British palaeontologist David Martill at the University of Portsmouth, where he obtained both an M. Phil. and Ph.D.
It should be noted that in addition to his Tetrapod Zoology blog, Naish has published several popular books on prehistoric animals including the Dorling Kindersley Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life (2003, with David Lambert and Elizabeth Wyse), the Palaeontological Association book Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight (2001, with David Martill) and the highly acclaimed BBC Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence (2000, with David Martill), produced to accompany the TV series “Walking with Dinosaurs.” In 2010, he published The Great Dinosaur Discoveries as sole author. His name is also attached to several children’s books on prehistoric animals. Naish is an associate editor for the journal Cretaceous Research and was also on the editorial board of the journal The Cryptozoology Review. He acts as a regular book reviewer for the Palaeontological Association.
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.
Loved this movie as a kid, but just recently viewed it again and WOW! it’s pretty bad acting! LOL! Happy April Fools Day everyone!
I was delighted to take part in this expedition. (No, really! I’m mentioned by name!) But the worst part was driving from Atlanta to Africa. Unbelievable. Had to take the secret CIA tunnel and couldn’t get any XM coverage the whole time.
How could he, indeed?
This is damaging to crypto. Once again we have all been Let Down. He goes through the dissection even, the DISSECTION, before we notice some of the funny names! I don’t think he ever even said April Fool!
Despair reigning here. I already had the bottle out. Now the .45 is on the table. One more stupid video and BANG. What if every crypto is in this boat? (We are.) So much for crypto.
[head in hands; weeps. PATTY holds out hand; DWA hands tissue to PATTY]
[curtain]
How is this an April Fools joke? No where is said to be a joke. Not even on the link “read more”. I sure hope it’s not. Honestly, April fool jokes about cryptids on a cryptid site is really bad LMAO. Only because us crypto fans are here to read about updates, so jokes about their findings or semi findings isn’t a good deed. It just makes us feel like fools and gives unbelievers more of a reason to not believe in cryptids. If this is indeed real, and that open corpse is the real Mokele, then finally, finally, finally someone better than Bigfoot foot prints. I don’t know if the some of the pictures up there are from movies. One picture looks real to me, where the animal lift’s up it’s head out of the water. I wouldn’t know though, never seen any of Mokele movies and I personally wasn’t there in the Congo to actually see one.
All in all, I actually like this post. The title of this post seems wrong for a finding of mokele. The autopsy looks sick though in a good way. Not something I would watch while eating lol. I would assume that Mokele is a sauropod. The description does seem like some kind of sauropod to me. Even if it’s an April fools joke, I do believe it will be found soon. I know today’s people will eventually find a way to find it and eventually find it on tape or a corpse.