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Live Pterosaurs in S.E. United States

Reports of long-tailed “pterodactyls” or pterosaurs have come from Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, over the past few years. Regarding Georgia, the book Live Pterosaurs in America says:

“Good evening, Mr Whitcomb . . . I live in a small town in northeast Georgia, called Winder . . .” She had driven less than ten miles, just leaving an area of pasture, entering an area of thick woods, around a mild downhill curve . . . when an animal suddenly flew from the right, just over the front of her car. . . . She was stunned [and] told me what made her yell out loud: It was the tail; she looked up at a “very long” tail that had a strange shape at the end. . . . “Dive-bombing my car,” is how she described the flight path, as it crossed the highway in front of and slightly above her. “Curved, like a hammer,” is how she described the head, which had a crest that she thought was “solid, not feathery at all.”