Most often, stories about mysterious, large and unknown to science animals, similar in descriptions to prehistoric dinosaurs, came from the jungles of Africa.
The most famous of these stories are the stories of the Congolese monster mokele-mbembe, similar to the herbivorous diplodocus, and the flying monster Kongamato, which is probably a pterodactyl that has survived to our times (paranormal-news.ru).
Another popular place where ancient lizards can survive is South America. This is how a strange beast similar to a brontosaurus is known, which was described in his diaries by the famous traveler Percy Fossett, and in the notes of the German explorer Franz Herrmann Schmidt, it tells about collisions with a monster that looks like a spinosaurus.
Much less known are the stories about living dinosaurs that came from Indonesia and from the "cannibalistic island" of Papua New Guinea.
For many years, including today, reports have been received from the Indonesian island of Nusa Kambangan about the sighting of an animal called Kawuk here.
According to the descriptions, he looks like a large crocodile that moves on two hind limbs. That is, it looks almost like a Tyrannosaurus, only much smaller in size and more like a Velociraptor.
Some say that the kawuk is just a large lizard, like the dragons of the other Indonesian island of Komodo. However, the Komodo dragons (and other large lizards) do not walk on two legs, and the kavuk moves in this way.
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The kavuk reaches a height of about one and a half meters and hunts at night. However, the term "hunting" is hardly applicable to it, since mainly the kavuk is a scavenger. Including he allegedly loves to tear up graves in cemeteries and eat corpses.
Kawuk is also known for being very aggressive and life-threatening to meet him. Kavuka was observed throughout the 20th century, and from modern cases one can recall a story from 2014.
A fisherman named Heri and his friends went to the cemetery to visit a recently deceased acquaintance and suddenly saw that several incomprehensible large lizard-like animals were circling around his grave. People were afraid that they would dig up the body of their acquaintance and therefore they reburied the body in another place, farther from the forest.
Of course, when Hyeri began to tell this story, skeptics began to say that he and his friends just saw big monitor lizards. However, Hyeri assured that he knew very well what monitor lizards look like and that these creatures were not at all monitor lizards.
Is the Kavuk a surviving theropod like the Velociraptor? Maybe. There are still many places in Indonesia where a person's foot has practically never been set. However, according to the latest modern information, most theropods had feathers (even Tyrannosaurus rex). While the presence of feathers in the kavuk was never mentioned in eyewitness accounts.
A modern take on Velociraptor.
Another alleged Indonesian dinosaur lives on the island of Seram and is a flying dinosaur. Locals often describe encounters with creatures similar to monkeys with wings.
There are stories among people that these creatures live in volcanic dumps, and at night they can raid the inhabitants of the villages and steal their babies.
Their wings are not made of feathers, but leathery, like those of bats and black. And my eyes burn brightly in the night. The stories of encounters with these monsters can be found even in the reports of Christian missionaries who have come here since the 15th century.
A more modern meeting took place in 1987 and also with a missionary. The Englishman Tyson Hughes lived among a local tribe and said that he personally saw a huge flying monster.
Most often it is assumed that Hughes was simply observing a large fruit bat, like a flying fox. However, for local tribes, flying foxes and other fruit bats are common animals, which they often eat for lunch and dinner. And a completely different thing is the monster with the body of a monkey and black wings, which everyone is afraid of and which is called Orang Bati here.
Orang Bati may indeed be an ancient pterosaur, the local jungle is practically unexplored and expeditions come here extremely rarely.
Now let's move on to the dinosaurs of Papua New Guinea. First of all, this state is known for its wild tribes, which recently happily killed and ate each other. Including because of this, the jungle of Papua New Guinea is also practically not explored.
In the province of West New Britain, an unusual creature lives by the name of Kaiaimunu, which, according to descriptions, resembles the Therizinosaurus - a large bipedal dinosaur with huge claws on its front legs.
There is an old photograph of a native standing near a Kiaimunu sculpture made of twigs. First of all, a huge mouth stands out.
The last modern case of observation of this beast is dated 2005. A certain man named Robert saw this creature in the jungle and it struck him.
According to Robert, the creature was huge and reached a length of 12-15 meters, while it was bipedal, had a long and leathery neck and head like a turtle.
However, it was not a predator and perhaps that is why Robert did not suffer at all when he met. According to him, the creature peacefully ate leaves in the thickets by the river, and then went into the water and swam away.
When Robert was shown a book with pictures of dinosaurs, he chose the Therizinosaurus as the most similar to the beast he had seen.
Therizinosaurs.
In the same 2005, the young spouses Margaret and Simon Patolkit were relaxing on the shores of the small uninhabited island of Dililo, when they suddenly saw a reptile that was even larger in size than the one Robert had seen. This one was at least 20 meters long.
The patolkits said that the creature had a long neck and a small head, and in general, they said it was a typical dinosaur. The monster briefly leaned out of the water, and then disappeared again.
