On January 5, 2023, the board of directors unanimously approved bringing Jeremy Michel onto the board. He lives in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah and was highly recommended by the executive director Jonathan Whitcomb. We are delighted to welcome Jeremy into the leadership of Animal Discovery.

Expedition Possibilities in 2023

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On December 6, 2022, the board of directors had a meeting, mainly for organizational purposes but also with discussions on potential expeditions. Nocturnal flying lights in eastern Washington state came up, and I [J. D. Whitcomb] mentioned the possibility that many of these lights may be from related flying creatures across North American. Maybe these animals might even be of the same species or at least closely related species in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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Modern-Pterosaur Expeditions

. . . the expedition led by Peter Beach and Milt Marcy in 2015 resulted in what may have been the first video footage of a living pterosaur being recorded in a remote jungle and carried back to the United States for distribution on Youtube and elsewhere.

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About the Ropen “Pterodactyl”

The word ropen comes from the Kovai language of Umboi Island in Papua New Guinea, although over the past fourteen years it has become known around the world as a word that refers to any modern flying creature that appears to an eyewitness to be a featherless long-tailed pterosaur . . .

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• The photo at the top of this post shows a tree on the bank of a river in eastern Washington state. On this tree one night, Milt Marcy and Peter Beach witnessed a flying light take off from this tree; apparently it had been perched there. On a different day, at near sunrise, a different eyewitness saw on this same tree, a “pterodactyl”.

We’re here to listen to eyewitnesses of animals that had previously been thought to exist only as fossils in our modern world. Our specialty in cryptozoology is in apparently featherless flying creatures that are not bats, such as the ropen. Many Westerners refer to these flying creatures as ‘pterodactyls’, although technically the correct word is ‘pterosaur’. Animal Discovery was registered and approved by the state of Utah, USA, as a nonprofit, on July 19, 2021.

Some of the purposes of Animal Discovery, were supported, since the year 2003, by the work of Jonathan Whitcomb, for many years living in Long Beach, California, but now living in Murray, Utah. Many other researchers and explorers have also specialized in living-pterosaur research and expeditions over a period of many years.

Whitcomb is now the executive director of Animal Discovery.

Purposes of Animal Discovery

Address:

Animal Discovery
5347 South New Hampton Drive
Murray, Utah 84123

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