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Published: 2005-07-04 05:31:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1790; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 48
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The mighty Mokele-mbembe (pronounced mo-kay-lee mmmbem-bee), King of the waters, a.k.a. N'yamala. The Mokele-mbembe spends most of its time in the water, and usually only comes out to feed. It is strictly vegetarian and prefers to eat a white fruit known as Malombo, pictured in the bottom left. While they do not eat flesh, they do attack and kill hippos, and occasionally people in boats. After shattering the boat the Mokele-mbembe may kill the passengers by thrashing them with its tail and biting them. It eats nothing it kills. Once in the early 1900's a group of pygmies killed a Mokele-mbembe and ate it, and all of them died shortly thereafter, leading some to believe that if one saw a Mokele-mbembe and spoke of it they would die, of course many of them talk about it anyways, as evidenced by the research conducted by Dr. Roy Mackal. A good book about the Mokele-mbembe is "A Living Dinosaur? In Search of Mokele-Mbembe," by Roy Mackal, who conducts very thorough research and cites earlier research as well. For a brief run down on the Mokele-mbembe see [link]O yes, done with coloured pencils, Prismacolor is my mainstay.
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Are you of the opinion that Mokele Mbembe was a Dinosaur or a Giant Monitor Lizard?
I am torn both ways, but my realist side begs a monitor.
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Well, I drew this when I was reading "A Living Dinosaur: In Search of Mokele-Mbembe." The guys that wrote the book were both evolutionists, but after an encounter with Loch Ness Dr. Mackal came to believe in dinosaurs. After that he started taking a lot of the cryptozoology anecdotes and accounts more seriously. At any rate, they went to Africa to search it out, and one of the things they did show pictures of different dinosaurs to the natives. Some of them the natives had names for and were able to describe the behavior of, while others they said they have never seen before. Since I am a Christian conservative I have no problem with the notion that there could still be dinosaurs at large in certain parts of the world. But even if I were an evolutionist I would still have no problem with it because dinosaurs occupied a variety of trophic levels, and consequentially there can be no natural mechanism which could have killed them all off without killing off everything (except perhaps roaches). At any rate, in the beginning of their book they also include some accounts of other dinosaur encounters from the 1800's and 1900's. Some of them are quite interesting, like this encounter these hunters had with a monster in South America. So I tend to favor the idea that it's a sauropod type dinosaur.
Right now I'm in the process of reading a book called "After the Flood" which deals with the early history of Europe. Towards the end of the book a large section is devoted to giving to modern accounts of dinosaur encounters in Europe. The stores are pretty interesting, and they mention different types, some small and some huge. Towns were named after some of them, of course the people at the time typically did not call them dinosaurs, they usually had a specific name for the various types or they simply called them monsters. But it's pretty obvious what's being described especially considering the details of the accounts. Basically many of them were killed off, some because they preyed on domestic animals.
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Sorry, I pasted my homepage in there by accident.
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I agree mostly.
As an evolutionist I only consider it an extremely unlikely scenario, and not a scientific impossibility.
Surviving Dinosaurs would either have to burrow like a rodent or swim like a crocodile. This gives us the [link] that Small theropods/ornithopods and Stegosaurs/Sauropods survived, due to their more "timid" natures.
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I'm going to recommend reading "In Search of a Living Dinosaur." It's a good read and involves research and scientific study. I don't agree with all of their conclusions but it is well written. And there is an element of adventure in there because they actually go to Africa and camp out in the tropical rainforest.
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I have read that book alot, I can't get a hold of a recent copy.
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Oh, I didn't know that. Well in that case, you can get a recent copy off of Amazon.com. I can't remember if I got mine from there or from the CSE website.
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Yeah, it is/was a real fave.
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Good, but didn't they have a horn/tooth on their head.....?
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Possibly, at least according to some accounts.
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i like it so much..
it looks so quite and peacful..
beautiful.
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Heck not only is the art fantastic. I even dig the name
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thanks, I need to draw more, I wish I had more time.
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holy shit is what i have to say to that. GREAT job on the coloration. You must color for me.
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Thanks, no problem. Just give me the thing you want done whenever its ready.
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thanks. i'll think of something to draw
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I'm thinking about drawing more dinosaurs, what do you think?
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Cool! Nessie gets most of the press in the "Cryptozoology" department.
The "Celocanth" used to be there, btw, just as the "City of Troy" was alongside "Atlantis".
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Yea, they found the Celocanth and Troy, it would be cool if they found an Atlantis. Nessie isnt the only thing though, theres also Nahuelito and Chanp of lake Champlain. It beats me why Nessie always gets the spotlight.
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it would be cool if they found an Atlantis.
Wherever it may have been located, the remains probably contain too many secrets our leaders don't want us to find out about.
It beats me why Nessie always gets the spotlight.
Isn't it obvious? First of all, they do it because it attracts far more attention to a similar anomaly no one has ever heard of. Hence, it creates more profit. Second, there might be a hidden agenda. If people get the impression that there is only one anomaly and that only very few people have actually seen it, most people would immediately call it a hoax. Therefor, drawing the attention to Nessie is a good way to keep sensible people away from the subject of evolutionary anomalies
These anomalies (as well as other creationist "evidence") won't convince me that evolution never takes place, though. They do, however, (like other creationist "evidence") put a doubt on the timeframe (millions and millions of years) and the assumption that humans and dinosaurs never lived together.
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BTW-The worms that have algae inside, being effectively a plant/animal cross are called "Convoluta". They primarily live in the sea sand in Britain, and on low tide swim upwards to catch the sun in the wet sand, turning the sand green in places though you need at least a magnifying glass to see the worms individually.
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Ah excellent. I will look into that.
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Thanks, actually the scanner washes out the colours, you should see what it looks like in real life.
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Gorgeous work on this! I love the colors they are all work so well together.
Mokele-mbembe, is a dinosaur in my mind. I have done a lot of reaserch on this creature. I beleive it's type of Plesiosaurs that some how did not go extinct. I also think that the famous "Nessie" in Scotland is one of these creatures. After I finish my scientific work and hunt these critters down (well, not hunt as in kill, but hunt as in locate) I'll let you know if my theories are correct.
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Thanks, glad you like it. I don't think it's a plesiosaur because way too many people describe it as having legs. I really like Dr. Mackals book about it, not only did he interview tons of eye-witnesses, but he researched earlier documents about it, and actually got a photo of one of its footprints which is included in his book. I do think that Nessia, Nahuelito, and Champ are plesiosaurs though, as well as the thing that they fished out of the water in the Pacific. That would be cool if you could get a photo of an actual Mokele-mbembe. I see it as a dinosaur also and have no problem with the notion that other dinosaurs may linger as well. Mackal also was told about some other creatures that could be dinosaurs, one of the natives identified a stegasaurus and said she had seen it. She described it as an animal with planks on its tail, which spends so much time in the water that algea grows on it. There is another creature described by natives called the Emela-ntouka, which means killer of elephants. It also lives in the river, and some of the earlier accounts by scientists and explorers confused the 2 on occasion and placed a horn on the Mokele-mbembe. For more on the Emela-ntouka see [link]
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;_; Ahh, it's so pretty...! And the legs under the water aren't a mass of color. ^_^ You did very well on this...!
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Thanks, its too bad you cant see the original because the scanner washes out my colours.
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