Hard to believe a giant, pink lizard could be overlooked

[the last yatto]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iP2JJHefVzNP9-9mfb_h_a2hvE-AD95ILCCO4

[Cain]

"To discover a large vertebrate that was unknown in an area where there has been a lot of research is very special," Marquez told The Associated Press by telephone from the park.

Yeah, I'd call it "special" too. 

[indifferent betty]

"To discover a large vertebrate that was unknown in an area where there has been a lot of research is very special," Marquez told The Associated Press by telephone from the park.

Yeah, I'd call it "special" too. 

i'd call it research done by lazy stoners far away from civilization.


RESEARCHER1; "fuck me, is that, lyk, a giant pink lizard?"
RESEARCHER2; "Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude!! This heathen weed is aweeeeeeeeeeesome!"

[Kai]

"To discover a large vertebrate that was unknown in an area where there has been a lot of research is very special," Marquez told The Associated Press by telephone from the park.

Yeah, I'd call it "special" too. 

I'd put it it in the "this shit happens more often than you think" category.

[Richter]

They thought the Ivory Billed Woodpecker was extinct too.  It was jsut camped out in a swamp.

[Kai]

They thought the Ivory Billed Woodpecker was extinct too.  It was jsut camped out in a swamp.

I'm still not sure on that one. You've got some people that believe it, and some people who call it a total hoax, and both groups have been searching for years.

[Cain]

"To discover a large vertebrate that was unknown in an area where there has been a lot of research is very special," Marquez told The Associated Press by telephone from the park.

Yeah, I'd call it "special" too. 

I'd put it it in the "this shit happens more often than you think" category.

I'm sure it does.

However, I'm still going to make fun of them for it.

[Kai]

Honestly, its species like the ones in this thread that make cryptozoology a valid scientific endevour.

[Cain]

Next week it will turn out that the Mokele-mbembe is in fact living in a flat in Kinshasa, holding down a job as a traffic warden.

[Kai]

Next week it will turn out that the Mokele-mbembe is in fact living in a flat in Kinshasa, holding down a job as a traffic warden.

On the other hand, there ARE giant squid and colossal squid and Coelacanths.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Not that it applies in this case, but one of my favorite zoology phenomena is where a native group will insist an animal exists, and zoologists are all "Nuh-uh!"

...and it goes on like this for a couple of hundred years, until a zoologist actually goes and looks where the natives said to look, and is all "Holy shit, this legendary creature actually exists!"

No fuck, dipwad.

[Kai]

Not that it applies in this case, but one of my favorite zoology phenomena is where a native group will insist an animal exists, and zoologists are all "Nuh-uh!"

...and it goes on like this for a couple of hundred years, until a zoologist actually goes and looks where the natives said to look, and is all "Holy shit, this legendary creature actually exists!"

No fuck, dipwad.

Honestly, that sort of thing happens less and less.

[LMNO]

Next week it will turn out that the Mokele-mbembe is in fact living in a flat in Kinshasa, holding down a job as a traffic warden.

On the other hand, there ARE giant squid and colossal squid and Coelacanths.

I saw a Coelacanth at a museum over thanksgiving.  Holy fuck, those things are scary.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Not that it applies in this case, but one of my favorite zoology phenomena is where a native group will insist an animal exists, and zoologists are all "Nuh-uh!"

...and it goes on like this for a couple of hundred years, until a zoologist actually goes and looks where the natives said to look, and is all "Holy shit, this legendary creature actually exists!"

No fuck, dipwad.

Honestly, that sort of thing happens less and less.

It would have to, given how few "primitive" human populations are left.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Not that it applies in this case, but one of my favorite zoology phenomena is where a native group will insist an animal exists, and zoologists are all "Nuh-uh!"

...and it goes on like this for a couple of hundred years, until a zoologist actually goes and looks where the natives said to look, and is all "Holy shit, this legendary creature actually exists!"

No fuck, dipwad.

Honestly, that sort of thing happens less and less.

It's true... after you get hit in the head by a bar stool enough times, you figure out that it might be a good idea to go look just in case...



EDIT: Also:

Park rangers ignored the pink and black-striped reptiles after accidentally happening upon them in 1986. Some thought the stripes were just stains.

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