A Jurassic Relic

This is yet another case of theunimaginable again showing up in isolated habitats, particularly unwelcoming tohuman activity.

I think we need to listen here.  Recall a similar animal was drawn in stonecenturies ago at Ankor Wat.  Thus we havetwo separate reports in two continents.

Explaining the complete disappearanceof all the dinosaurs without also having the complete disappearance of theirhabitat at the same time was always somewhat difficult.  Our own efforts have so far located reportsof just about any of the tropical forms scattered about in the rainforests thatsurvived since their age.

What are missing are the highlandand open country species whose whole biome converted to a grass fed culture.  This of course is the biome that supportshumanity also.  After all, just exactlywhat do your think wheat and its like is?

So a large stegosaurus trampingabout in the forest is plausible and also impossible to easily spot, unless youspend a great deal of time hanging out in dense forest been very quiet whilefeeding a million mosquitoes.  At thesame time, its spoor would naturally be mistaken for elephant.

On the other hand, it is notimpossible and needs attention

Muhuru: Jurassic Relic

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011

http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/04/muhuru-jurassic-relic.html

The Muhuru is said to be an armor plated, club-tailed creature thatlives deep within the thick overgrown terrain of East Africa. Some people have suggested that it is a modern example ofa living dinosaur.

Photographic or biological evidence is sketchy at best in proving this animal’sexistence and the general consensus among cryptozoologists is that the Muhuruis yet another Jurassic relic unlike the Mokele-mbembe. Unlike theMokele-mbembe, which is known for it's vicious territorial instincts, theMuhuru, which has been spotted primarily in Kenya, is not known to beaggressive.

Eyewitnesses have described the Muhuru as a heavily armored reptilian beastwith large, bony plates jutting out of its spine. There is speculation thatthis creature may well be a surviving species of theplant-eating dinosaur called the Stegosaurus. Believed to have beenextinct for 150 million years, the Stegosaurus was a large, herbivorousquadruped from the Late Jurassic period.

Descriptions of the Muhuru’s unique armor plating and intimidatingclub-like tail would seem to indicate that, unlike the spike tailed andtriangle scaled Stegosaurus, this beast may more akin to the squat, armadillolike dinosaur known as the Ankylosaur.

Ankylosaur were bulky, armor plated, quadrupeds with short, powerful limbs withclubbed tales which it used to fend off predators. First known to have appearedin Chinaduring the early Jurassic Period, these unique creatures managed tosurvive at least until the end of the Cretaceous Period.

I received a brief correspondence from a Canadian reader afew months ago where he detailed a conversation he had while on vacation in Kenya in 1988:

Sir - I want to thank you for the daily newsletter. In the Spring of 1988 myfather and I vacationed in Africa where wetoured several parts of the continent. During the last week of our trip we wereable to secure an invitation from an associate to accompany him to Mount Elgon National Park in western Kenya.

It was a bone-jarring 200 mile trek by car from Nairobi to the park then an additional 10+mile hike through tough terrain. It was the most unusual area we hadvisited during our trip. I especially enjoyed the caves, known as a gatheringplace for elephants who would scratch for salt with their tusks.

We stayed the night at the park lodge. That evening we had a conversation witha park guide who mentioned that there had been talk of a strange animal in therainforest at the foot of the mountain. A group of locals haddiscovered a fresh killed male elephant who had large lacerations across it'sabdomen and neck. The theory was that this was not an attack by anotherelephant and that a 'mahuru' was the culprit.

The guide explained that a mahuru was said to be a dinosaur-likeanimal and larger than a fully grown elephant. My father and I were amazed bythis story because the guide was very serious while he talked.Another gentleman was listening to the conversation and said that he had seen adrawing of a mahuru and that it looked liked an armored dinosaur witha horned club tail. I later was shown a picture that resembled a stegosaurus dinosaur.Have you heard of this animal? Nevin