Africa's full of mysteries. Among them is the case of the Kongamato, an animal that is said to be a 2 meters Pterodactyl. How it could had survived to the cataclys that destroyed all other dinosaur time animals? Thats because scientifics thinks that the pterodactyls were hot-blooded animals, as the mammals.
There are some reports of sightings of the Kongamato: in 1923, while working for a time in Zambia, Africa, Frank H. Melland gathered native reports of ferocious flying reptiles. They called them Kongamatos, that mean "overwhelmer of boats", which is said to live in the Jiundu swamps of the Mwinilunga district (western Zambia). They described it as a 4 to 7 feet of wingspan flying reptile, with no feathers, smooth skin, generally black or red. It attack anyone who look at it, and have the reputation to capsize canoes.
In 1925, a distinguished English newspaper correspondant, G. Edward Price, was in official visit in the time's Rhodesia with the future Duke of Windsor. He heard about the story of a wounding man once entered the feared swamps known to be the home of demons, determined to brave the danger. When the native was rescued, he told with horror how he was attacked by a strange looking bird. When he saw pterodactyl's images, he cried that it was the beast who attacked him.
Skeptics says that the flying creature that were seen were only about 2 species. In fact, in Zambia's swamps, 2 birds can be mistaken for pterodactyls. The shoebill stork and the saddle-billed stork (photo above). Both are rare and look really primitive, so they easily can be mistaken. But they aren't reported to attack people, and they don't have teets, as every other birds.
Anyway, the survivance of prehistoric creatures is possible thing (coelacanthus among others) and pterodactyls may had survived. But they could be only a country legend...
SOURCE: http://www.cryptozoology.com/kongamato/kongamato.html
