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Scale drawing of an ndendecki by David Miller, from Roy P. Mackal's A Living Dinosaur?.
The ndendecki (also spelled ndendeki) or dinosaur turtle is a cryptid giant turtle reported from the Likouala aux Herbes River in the Republic of the Congo. Its rounded shell is 12' to 15' in diameter, it is aquatic, and it feeds on organic matter. Roy P. Mackal believed it could be an older, outsized specimen of an African softshell turtle (Trionyx triunguis),[1][2] a theory with which Karl Shuker concurs.[3]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Mackal, Roy P. (1987) A Living Dinosaur? In Search of Mokele-Mbembe, Brill, ISBN 978-9004085435
- ↑ Eberhart, George M. (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, ABC-CLIO, Inc., ISBN 1576072835
- ↑ Shuker, Karl P. N. (2013) Mirabilis: A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural History, Anomalist Books, ISBN 978-1-938398-05-6