Live Pterosaurs in America
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Description
- 102 pages. paperback
Live Pterosaurs in America
- Published by CreateSpace
- Non-Fiction
- Six illustrations; one graph
- Sold on Amazon and by a few other retailers
- Suggested Retail $12.50
Unlike Searching for Ropens , the author's first book, Live Pterosaurs in America (LPA) fits neatly into the genre "cryptozoology," with more-limited references to Biblical-creation aspects of living-pterosaur research. Nevertheless, the book makes it clear that creationists deserve primary credit for the advancements in our knowledge about pterosaur-like cryptids that seem to live both in Papua New Guinea and in the United States. In addition, the appendix gives more details about how creation philosophy is related to this branch of cryptozoology. Dogmatic adherence to standard-model assumptions has hindered potential discoveries; this book makes that clear.
It works as an introduction to living-pterosaur cryptozoological investigations, as it includes summaries of various aspects of the earler expeditions in Papua New Guinea. But LPA focuses on sightings of apparent pterosaurs living in the United States.
Something perhaps never before covered in a cryptozoology book--that is an analysis of three factors that disprove the idea that a hoax or hoaxes had any significant part in the many accounts of apparent pterosaurs seen in the United States:
1) Descriptions of a long tail in about 80% of the reports
2) Degree of certainty of "feather-less"
3) Peak of 8-10 feet for wingspan estimates
The writing is easy, understandable to high school students and even younger. Still, the style (sentence-lengths, etc) is for the average adult.
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Review
". . .not only gave everyone more sightings than they can dispute (21 states!!!), but you also wove a descriptive and engaging ongoing investigation . . . thank you again for the WONDERFUL book! . . ." Susan Wooten, South Carolina
