by librarycat » Fri Mar 22, 2019 5:40 am
i doubt that enough of a population would've been able to sustain itself through 65 million years of climate change without us finding it now, or fossils of it. not to mention that whilst they sound like dinosaurs, they only sound like pop culture dinosaurs.
Mokele-mbembe - "lurks in swaps and rivers" "only one tooth but a very long one; some say it is a horn" "footprint has three claws instead of five" - sauropods were not designed for forest life, and certainly not swamps. they cleared out forest to eat the ferns beneath the trees. they would have been too heavy to support themselves in swampland. they most certainly had teeth, small, peg-like teeth, and no horns. most cretaceous sauropods had no toes on their feet.
Kongomato - "devoid of feathers" "teeth in its huge beak" "long and flexible tail" "coloured with yellowish scales" - pterosaurs were toothless, and covered in downy protofeathers. the later ones had short tails, and the early ones had long, inflexible tails.
Burrunjor - surprisingly the most accurate, but that is only because we don't know what type of therapod it is, or what a lot of large therapod skin was like. aslo, there are very few actual descriptions of the Burrunjor so i can't give an accurate reading.
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