Photograph of a Modern Pterosaur?

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By the world’s leading expert on sighting reports of apparent living pterosaurs, Jonathan Whitcomb

IMPORTANT UPDATE (December 8, 2018):

The original post was written in April of 2013. This is now greatly modified, and now references a new book: The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur.

The original version of this post was in support of an apparent 19th century photograph that was labeled “Ptp.” As of early November of 2018, however, I discontinued supporting that image. Someone brought up an image in one of the TV episodes of Walking with Dinosaurs, and one of the wings of a pterosaur (in that animation) was very similar to one of the wings in Ptp. That made it extremely likely that some kind of hoax or hoax-like work had been done on Ptp, even if some of it may have not been constructed from a hoax. I therefore discontinued my research on that image. In fact, I stopped the printing of my book Modern Pterosaurs, for that nonfiction was based primarily on that image (Ptp).

It looks like six Civil War soldiers gathered around an apparent Pteranodon

Did any part of this come from the Civil War? It is no longer supported.

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The following is the revised version of this post (late 2018)

The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur has no photo of a modern pterosaur. It has two important sketches, drawn by two eyewitnesses of one or more “pterodactyls” seen at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the middle of the 20th century.This is the point of this nonfiction book for middle-grade children and younger teenagers: People in different areas of the planet have seen these flying creatures. People from different cultures, with different languages and backgrounds—they have seen the same kind of featherless flying creature.

Purchase one or more copies of this paperback, for gift-giving to kids and teens.

Hand holds book "The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur"

NON-fiction paperback The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur (by Jonathan David Whitcomb)

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New ‘Dinosaur’ Book for Young Readers

The non-fiction paperback The Girl who saw a Flying Dinosaur introduces a new field of cryptozoology to kids and teens who are about eight to fourteen years old.

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The Girl who saw a Pterodactyl

One critic might dismiss the report by Patty Carson, saying it was just the imagination of a small girl. But why would that US Marine see two flying creatures that were so similar to the one seen by that child? Keep in mind that both reports come from Guantanamo Bay, and the sightings were only six years apart.

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‘Dinosaur’ book for LDS teenagers

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 apparent living pterosaurs. It invites you to seek the truth behind what people around the world report observing.

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