Fossils of Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs in Cuba is not news; but
in the twentieth century, corroborating eyewitnesses, with
sightings about six years apart, in the same area of Cuba,
observing the same apparent species of long-tailed
pterosaur—that is news. A few days ago, I had a long phone
conversation with a registered nurse who lives in California.
She feared for her life one day when she was a child at the
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The creature had small teeth
but many of them, and when it stood up, it was about as tall as
a man. The long tail with a diamond at the end—that made the
featherless winged creature very unlike any bat; the teeth made
it very unlike any bird in Cuba, indeed very like any bird
anywhere. When the child tried to tell her family about the
“flying dinosaur,” they disbelieved her; after all, she was only
a child. But six years later, in 1971, the U. S. Marine Eskin
Kuhn was stationed at that same base at Guantanamo Bay, and he
saw, in clear daylight, two “pterodactyls,” at c