The "Monster-animal", "Mokele-Mbembe"
Video: "Mokele-Mbembe" on Youtube
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extract of the CD-ROM "Nessie" of the science author Ernst Probst:
in African rain forests that have occurred since the Cretaceous period (about 130 to 65 million years) are not changed, apparently still living dinosaurs. Among them is perhaps the mythical dragon-like animal "Mokele-Mbembe" in Central Africa. The term coined by pygmies "Mokele-Mbembe" means to German - to different sources - "Rainbow," "The stop, the flow of the river" or "Monster-animal".
from "Mokele-Mbembe" became known in 1776 huge footprints that had a circumference of almost one meter and had a distance of about 2.50 meters from each other. 1913/1914 adopted by the German officer, Baron von Stein to Lausnitz an expedition to the then German colony of Cameroon, which now belongs to the north of the Congo. He reported that between the rivers Sangha and Likouala exists a great and mysterious animal, which are viewed by natives over again. The puzzling Creatures are referred to by locals as pygmies "Mokele-Mbembe. It was as big as an elephant had a long, flexible neck and a long tail like an alligator.
Subsequently there have been many reports of alleged sightings of giant beasts in the Congo, Zambia and Gabon, as well as descriptions of expeditions who searched for dinosaurs surviving in Central Africa.
living dinosaurs - the fossil evidence suggests - from the Middle Triassic period, about 230 million years to the end of the Cretaceous period about 65 million years ago. The term dinosaur ("terror sixes") introduced in 1841 the London zoologist and anatomist Richard Owen (1804-1892).
The term dinosaur is a phylogenetically diverse group of extinct reptiles. Among the dinosaurs, there were about 70 centimeters long, such as tiny "Compsognathus" from Germany and an estimated more than 40 meters long giant like "Supersaurus" from the U.S.. We know peaceful vegetarians and meat-eating predators, and species that are four-legs were moving and those who walked on two legs like birds.
Among the similarities, which had all the dinosaurs, each hand, two temporal windows were on the skull behind the eye openings. Also distinguished by the position of their legs and their pace from all the other dinosaurs are reptiles. For them, the legs were under the body and not the sides were extended by him - as with the lizards and crocodiles. Why dinosaurs dragged when walking not like the amphibian stomach on the floor, but went by way of mammal, the belly-supporting high above the earth's surface. The dinosaurs died
- such as the ammonites, belemnites, marine reptiles (plesiosaurs, Mosasaurier) from, pterosaurs and birds dentary at the end of the Cretaceous period about 65 million years ago. About this most famous mass extinction of Earth's history there are countless theories. It was among other climate changes, meteorite impacts or the consequences of a globally significant volcanism associated.
But there were reptiles that survived the great dinosaur extinction, namely, tuatara, turtles, crocodiles, lizards (lizards, geckos, lizards) and snakes. http://www.buch-shop-mainz.de
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