Summary: <p>People have been searching for the so-called African brontosaurus, mokele mbembe, for a century without any luck. No one was looking for the extinct coelacanth until a museum curator saw one in a pile of recently caught fish. In this episode of Strange Animals Podcast we discuss the hunt for both creatures.</p> <p>Recommended reading: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Abominable-Science-Origins-Nessie-Cryptids/dp/023115321X">Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids</a> by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-58" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/coelacanth.jpeg" alt="" width="274" height="184"></p> <p>The beautiful coelacanth.</p>
