Category Archives: Live Pterosaurs

A new field of cryptozoology: eyewitness accounts of living pterosaurs

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Real Science

By nonfiction author Jonathan Whitcomb The following, at least in part, will probably be included in my upcoming book One LDS Perspective on Evolution [update on March of 2021: This has been postponed]: Real science is not what’s in a … Continue reading

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Scientific Paper About Living Pterosaurs

By the cryptozoology author Jonathan Whitcomb Introduction My “Reports of Living Pterosaurs in the Southwest Pacific” was published in the Winter-2009 issue of the Creation Research Society Quarterly (Volume 45, #3). I now refer to the last four pages of … Continue reading

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Is the New Book About Religion?

By the investigative journalist Jonathan Whitcomb My new nonfiction is for middle-grade children and many (but not all) teenagers: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur. This is a short cryptozoology book, not about religion but about eyewitness sightings of … Continue reading

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The Truth About Living Pterosaurs

By the author of four nonfiction books on living pterosaurs: Jonathan D. Whitcomb Fireworks to be Avoided Last month I spent half an hour with two friends, Juan and Manuel, as we stood in a vacant lot in Draper, Utah, … Continue reading

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The Pteranodon Photo and Religion

An old photograph has been bouncing around the internet for quite some time, with many persons giving it a careless glance but very few indeed examining it closely and with an open mind. In the first few months of 2017, … Continue reading

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Honest or Trying to Deceive?

This past summer, I wrote about a biology professor in Minnesota who criticized me for what he declared were my bad motivations. His post was not like a scientific article, not even slightly like a peer-reviewed paper in a journal of science; it … Continue reading

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Promoting Pterodactyls and the “Mormon Religion”

Did I promote the “Mormon Religion” by publishing my web page “Searching for Ropens and Finding God?” I would be delighted if a reader not yet a member of my church investigated the LDS faith after reading that page, yet … Continue reading

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LDS Nonfiction?

The Amazon page quotes the nonfiction book Searching for Ropens and Finding God: Three Christians—one middle-aged LDS-Mormon high priest and two Protestant young earth creationists—explored Umboi Island in two separate expeditions in 2004, interviewing eyewitnesses of a glowing animal of … Continue reading

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New Edition of Searching for Ropens

The new title for the third edition of my first nonfiction book will be Searching for Ropens and Finding God. This explains cryptozoological investigations of worldwide sightings of apparent modern pterosaurs. Expect many new paragraphs and even new chapters. Here … Continue reading

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Ropen Poetry

With apologies to Emily Dickinson, I post my humble little mutation of a poem: Humor intended, of course I title this “Not everybody embraces a live pterodactyl.” I believe that these bioluminescent nocturnal flying predators eat more than just bats and … Continue reading

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