Living dinosaurs in South America

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In addition to the alleged claims of surviving dinosaurs in Central Africa, there have also been some reports of unknown, large reptiles, possibly dinosaurs, surviving in the vast rain forests of South America.

[edit] Sightings

The Swedish naturalist Rolf Blomberg described in his book "Rio Amazonas"(1966) his meeting with a very old Brazilian Indian. The man, Alvaro Mesquita, told Blomberg of his earlier meeting with a "prehistoric beast". Mesquita encountered the creature during a nightly hunt at the shore of a swampy lake around the Rio Purús/Rio Juruá-area in the Amazon basin, Brazil. Mesquita said he suddenly saw two glowing red eyes high above the ground, and tried to get closer. When he got close, he saw it was a bipedal reptile. Mesquita described the animal as resembling the herbivore dinosaur Camptosaurus. He tried to shoot at the monster, but missed, and the creature fled into the lake. They say its a long neck or some sort of aquatic dinosaur.

Blomberg himself was very skeptical about this fantastic dinosaur story. ´

[edit] References

Blomberg, Rolf. 1966. "Rio Amazonas", Almqvist & Wiksell.

[edit] See also

• Living dinosaurs