Originally posted by pstrron
Just goes to show that you never know what materials can come in handy many years down the road.

Originally posted by RuneSpider
... It was well known by the locals, who had been catching the fish for about as long as their people had been there.

In comparison, we have your unsourced statements and few pictures that have appeared on the web with no sources.

Unlike the other pictures this one REALLY looks fake though

Originally posted by sir_chancealot
Oh, but all the Native American (those, you know, American "Locals") stories about "Thunderbirds" can't be believed?

Originally posted by ignorant_ape
i vote probable fake , my reasons

1 - issolation - a single adult cannot just ` apear ` in the mid 1860s with no supporting wild population - even if it [ that photo ] was the extintion death - there woulkd have been have been prior discoveries - flyting reptiles with multi metre wingspans cannot hide

2 - if N america had wild pterosaurs - why would it have been covered up / ignored previously ? - when the americas were discovered - thousands oof species unknown to europeans were discovered and faithfully documented - and there was no motive for a conspiracy - as paleantology was an as yet un studied discipline - the word dinosaur was not even coined till the 19th century and thier was no debate on the age of the aerth / evolution / creationism till the mid 19th century

so a single photo - allegedly from the mid 19th century needs extra ordinary evidence to explain its origin

its lack of provenance other than a creationist website sets alarm bels ringing