Living Dinosaurs

A bipedal reptilian predator stomping through the Australian outback, leaving three-toed tracks in places nothing large should be.

A giant aquatic lizard once said to inhabit remote Himalayan valleys before being deliberately exterminated.

Something in the Congo swamps kills elephants with a single horn and has no interest in eating them.

An enormous, tapir-like beast reported by a colonial officer in the unexplored highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Zambian fishermen describe a flying reptile with leathery wings and teeth that capsizes their boats.

A legless or two-legged dragon slithers through Scandinavian and Germanic legends as a creature of both terror and strange wisdom.

The largest shark that ever lived went extinct 3.6 million years ago, unless the deep ocean is hiding something.

A 12-foot flightless bird, officially extinct for 600 years, with enough backcountry sighting reports to keep the search alive.

Deep in the Congo Basin, local tribes describe a living dinosaur with total consistency across generations.

In a remote Kenyan river valley, locals describe an armored, club-tailed reptile that has no business still existing.

West African elders say that anyone who sees this swamp dragon dies shortly after.

Islanders in Papua New Guinea describe a glowing, long-tailed flying creature that matches no known bird or bat.

A scaly, long-necked dragon depicted on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon stands among real animals, leading some to argue it was drawn from life.

A stubby, venomous dragon-cat with two front legs haunts the caves and cliffs of the European Alps.