[vannrox]

Interesting.

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[swarthyguy]

Will this story have wings?

[Fiddlstix]

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[demosthenes the elder]

ex Africa aliquid semper novi

FYI: old Roman phrase, associated with triumphal parades and the carnage of the animal shows the arenas, referring to all the exotic strange beasties wealthy patrons would import from the African provinces... "and always something new out of Africa"

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, they have the Pterodactyls in Texas and Mexico, so why not Africa too?

[ErnBatavia]

"'What kind of bird?'

These guys have no clue.....it's a B-2 bomber easing it's way to the Persian Gulf.

[Darksheare]

Personally, I just keep reminding people that the Coelocanth was thought to be extinct until a fisherman hauled one up.
I'm waiting for some enterprising person to accidentaly haul up a trilobite or something equally odd.
So, if the coelocanth can exists despite Science saying otherwise. I wouldn't put it past some other critters remaining alive in some last bastion.

[spetznaz]

I do not know the veracity of that story, but if ANYTHING like that exists that is probably one of the few places it would! Those forests are extremely dense, and they are basically cut off from the rest of the world. Also the volcanic soil structure is considered to be quite different from that of any other place in the globe (and in certain areas ...for example the Virunga volcanoes .....has given rise to huge plant specimens).

In the so called 'mountains of the moon' ...the Virunga volcanoes ....the rich volcanic soil somehow causes plants thata re small and diminutive elsewhere to grow to huge sizes and the area has been a hub of great interest for scientists. I once had a book with specimen photographs and it was mind-blowing.

Anyways if any 'exotic creature' exists and the whole story is not some huge sham (ala bigfoot/sasquatch) then that is the place to find it.

[SunkenCiv]

from 2003.

[Lancey Howard]

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[Rebelbase]

“terrifying stories are still told of the “Ninki Nanka”,”

I dated her once. The stories are true.