Pterodactyl spotted?

Hey everyone. I didn't know what I was going to write about today when I noticed an e-mail from a personal friend of mine, Jack Russel, Paleontologist and author of the amazing book "Barney Is Not Your Friend: A Scientific Look at Dinosaurs in our Society". Jack just wanted to give me the heads up on a recent event.

In Mexico the Paleozoic timeline may have just been turned upside down with yet another living fossil rediscovered. What appears to be a Pterodactyl was spotted soaring over the skies of Boraccho Grande, an isolated town in the Mexican plains.

"Yeah, I just looked up in the sky and it was, like flying around," says eyewitness Jose Granjero, who was playing soccer with his three friends at the time. "Then the old man started shouting and pointing at the sky. There was something up there, a dark shape flying past. He started yelling, and my friends all looked up. Luckily, Julio had his camera, so we could take a picture."

Later, when asked by scientists to identify the creature as compared to several photos of prehistoric reptiles, large birds, and passenger jets, the boys uniformly proclaimed that it looked like "that one bird guy from Jurassic Park III."

"I think this is just great," said paleontologist Jack Russel. "We hope to take a team out into the hills and look for it. After the discovery of the coelacanth, we aren't going to give up hope."

For those who don't know, pterodactyls are a type of flying reptile from the age of the Mesozoic period and are believed to have been extinct since the death of the dinosaurs. Though they were incapable of true flight, they could glide on air currents and many scientists theorize that they fed mainly on fish. "One thing we do worry about," Russel adds, "Is what it's feeding on, because there's a sufficient lack of fish out here in the Mexican plains. One theory is that it's feeding on the over-abundance of tacos that are native to this area." He takes a moment to laugh, scratching his chin, "But anyway, if we do find a pterodactyl, we plan on personally taking it to Scotland to challenge Nessie to a fight."

Pretty cool, huh? I hope they find one. And I hope the Government doesn't confiscate it like they did with the last claims...in1856. I keep you guys posted if Jack sends me anything else.