May 23, 2012 There aren’t any sauropods in the Congo Basin.
There’s not a scrap of evidence that long-necked, swamp-
wallowing dinosaurs are hiding somewhere in the jungles of
Africa, or anywhere else. And I say that as someone who was
enthralled when I saw the puppet brontosaurs of 1985′s Baby:
Secret of the Lost Legend (see the clip above), arguably the
best movie dinosaurs before Jurassic Park stomped along. After
seeing that movie, I really, really wanted there to be living
sauropods, but the evidence simply doesn’t exist. Rumors that
there might be an Apatosaurus-like dinosaur in the Congo Basin
have circulated for years. Young earth creationists have been
especially enamored with the idea, as they wrongly believe that
finding a living, non-avian dinosaur will discredit evolutionary
theory. (The existence of a living sauropod wouldn’t be any
worse for evolutionary theory than the discovery of modern
coelacanths. These archaic fish were thought to be extinct, but
once living fish were discovered, they fell