Cryptid Profile - The Ropen or "The Living Pterosaur"

hello there guys and we are back with another cryptid profile and today we are actually combining cryptid profile somewhat with paleo profile because we're talking about a proposed host kpg pterosaur yeah this one will be my first of many examinations of late surviving extinct organisms such as manquillium bimbe the lakers monster and others stories of late surviving dinosaurs and pterosaurs are pretty common in the cryptozoology community but how many if any are true is very much debated today we are looking at just one and a nasty bizarre and confusing one at that the ropin of papua new guinea ah yes the ropan the quote unquote living pterosaur the story of the ropen is a long and interesting one filled with glowing religious agendas body snatching and bill cosby the story and the creature so what was it exactly well unfortunately most information concerning the roping comes from only a few proponents of it mostly one man this man is of course jonathan whitcomb i will devote an entire section discussing what comes reliability as an eyewitness and scientists later on but in short he is a christian young earth creationist a person who believes the earth is 10 000 years old or younger and that non-avian dinosaurs and pterosaurs coexisted with humans like in the flintstones no just know who traveled to papua new guinea on a mission trip to disprove evolution somehow by proving the existence of living pterosaurs in the region even though evolutionary theory is one of the strongest scientific theories supported by countless evidences lost facts and is well verifiable and repeatedly testable by simply observing millions of physical evidences ranging from genetics the fossil record embryonic development to molecular structures to transitionary species to basically everything we know about biology and proving the existence of opposing kpg terrors will probably strengthen it if anything confirmation bias great well anywho jonathan traveled to umbwa island papua new guinea in 2004. he repeatedly interviewed many natives of the island who spoke of eyewitness accounts of an ancient creature called the ropen the ropen is described as a massive nocturnal flying animal with a wingspan between 16 feet to 23 feet that's a big gap and with a tail 23 feet long as well it is highly reduced time limbs compared to basically all pterosaurs with virtually no feet or legs at least according to this eyewitness drawing its body seems to be a combination of several fossils all known in 2004 might i add from the crest of the extremely famous north american cretaceous pterosaur pteranodon the long tail with a diamond-shaped vein at its tip of the also famous german jurassic ramforinkus and one eyewitness identifying it as the tiny jurassic pterosaur from caracastan sordes and guess what this one was also very famous it's basically the indominus rex of pterosaur with traits randomly taken from different species of madayad famous well-known ones it had dark naked leathery skin without feathers or fur and basically resembles inaccurate reconstructions of pterosaurs from decades ago here's a sketch by whitcomb it also digs up people's graves in the night and eats their corpses oh and it also glows in the dark the vast majority of eyewitnesses don't describe a pterosaur-like creature at all they simply describe nighttime flashes of lights in the sky whitcomb says it's the same creature as the bat like one described above and it's simply bioluminescent yep it's a glow-in-the-dark pterosaur he also believes it's the fiery flying serpent from the bible isaiah 14 29 many other proponents of the rope and claim ancient artifacts from papua new guinea also provide proof of its existence and that the creature has been known by the natives as a glowing demon in the night for centuries if not thousands of years on the island as well as photos of what they believe to be the glowing lights of the ropen and last but not least a video of a ropen in flight oh man we got a lot to work with on this one let's just start out with the principle the principal a late surviving pterosaur i think ph.d zoologist and paleontologist daryn nish says it best in his book hunting monsters regarding late surviving pterosaurs he says the possibility that pterosaurs might have survived beyond the end of the cretaceous and into modern day is not imprintable impossible but it contradicts the data we have and is not supported by anything other than vague and questionable eyewitness accounts sure it's not impossible and it sure wouldn't disprove evolution but we absolutely have no substantial evidence to prove it all current evidence points to pterosaurs becoming extinct in the kpg mass extinction about 66 million years ago along with around 70 percent of all life we need more than just blurry and disjointed eyewitness claims to refute the fossil record the famous quote extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence comes to mind here remember eyewitness descriptions are the weakest form of evidence in really any investigation everybody knows that so just keep it this in mind i think the main problem is is that the roping sounds nothing like a pterosaur at all most eyewitnesses describe nothing more than weird dark winged creatures never does an eyewitness describe any of the unique features of real pterosaurs that are now known never do eyewitnesses describe the bizarre air sacks in their wings and all over their bodies or the hair-like filaments on their bodies that we now know almost all pterosaurs possessed or the simple fact pterosaurs walked on all fours instead they always described now an accurate concept such as the fact they were covered in naked leathery skinny bodies lacking pika fibers pointed wing tips and flying around on skin-wrapped kite-like bodies instead of the now bulkier almost hairy animals with air sacks and rounded wingtips as dara nish puts it these are cultural anachronisms not zoological ones i'm just saying don't you find it a little weird that these reports of living pterosaurs always seem to fit with what was known at the time and not actually how these animals looked in real life and according to evidence now later in the future it's almost as if they are made up or inspired by now outdated reconstructions and not real organisms in fact the ropen is more consistent with the description of smog the dragon from the hobbit than any pterosaur and that's no joke it just seems to me like whoever created i mean spotted the ropen doesn't seem to know much about real pterosaurs and jonathan whitcomb the self-proclaimed modern pterosaur expert doesn't seem to really know anything about real pterosaurs considering he doesn't mention these inconsistencies between the roping and real pterosaurs and he believes a serpent is an accurate description of a pterosaur well i digress another problem i have with the ropin is its body shape and traits they make no sense the ropin is literally just a mishmash of random famous fossils known at the time put willy-nilly into one animal almost as if it was made up by looking just at a bunch of famous fossils and imagining them as one animal again it has the long tail vampirinkus but the crest of pteranodon as well as looking like sordez to an eyewitness there are just so many contradictions with that description pteranodon and basically all crested large pterosaurs possessed reduced to almost non-existent tails this is probably because long tails produce drag and flight and waste a ton of energy while rampharincus like pterosaurs possessing long tails tend to be small and lacking headcrest like pteranodon and to make things worse the eyewitness points out sordez an animal that has direct evidence it was furry even though the ropeman is supposed to be naked and lacking any filament integument and to make things even worse all these pterosaurs were extinct before the kpg mass extinction sordez became extinct in the late jurassic pteranodon became extinct 8 million years ago 14 million years before the kpg mass extinction and the ramp for inquid pterosaurs became extinct during the late jurassic 82 million years before the kpg at least with people who say as dirk and pterosaurs are still alive makes a little bit more sense considering that starkids did survive until the kpg but this this don't make no sense let's not forget to mention the enormous size of this cryptid this is an animal with apparently a 23 foot wingspan the size of a small plane and a tail just as long the wingspan is double mothman's it's a very long and large cryptid that is apparently dark black or brown in color that glows you'd think it'd be kind of hard to hide around for this long not to mention how absurd that tail is also a seven meter tail that's 23 feet is longer than some of the largest great white sharks and that's just the tail a tail that long would create enormous amount of drag for an animal that size it would waste so much energy and the thing is about long-distance flying animals with large bodies is you need to be aerodynamic in your body shape real fossil pterosaurs the size of or similar in size to the ropin actually solve this problem by having reduced tails such as quetzalcoatlus and hot sea gap directs even modern birds with similar wingspan have solved this by having reduced tails as well such as albatrosses seabirds and eagles a long-tailed aerial animal the size of this would have a hard time flying with a tail that long not to mention the crazy amount of drag it would create wasting energy and lastly to add to more problems to the concept it glows in the dark and digs up graves to eat people two of the most implausible things about the ropen first let's talk about the plausibility of a flying animal that relies on buried human corpses for food considering i've found no source suggesting the ropin does anything other than scavenge off of dead human corpses i'm going to assume that's its primary source of food which makes little sense and actually contradicts its anatomy you can learn a lot about a living organism by simply looking at its morphology body and physical traits especially its lifestyle and diet now let's look at the ropen's body a 23 foot long tail that creates a great amount of dragonflight highly reduced to almost non-existent hind limbs or legs massive 23 foot wings equipped for long distance travel reduced hands on the fore limbs with few digits pronated in a way that would make it not equipped for walking or digging small weak looking toothless beak and finally a very short neck which appears not to have much articulation if we compare this body plan to other known animals it seems like the ropin is similar in body planned to long-distance flyers like albatrosses or in the case of pterosaurs pteranodon that is except for the long tail which no large aerial organism ever possessed but when we look at the proposed lifestyle of the ropin we see the opposite it apparently is a terrestrial scavenger like a groundhorn bill or even an asdarketerosaur which have long high limbs flat feet for walking long necks in the case of pterosaurs four limbs and hands adapted for walking and stalking short tails that don't get in the way and strong and massive beaks for breaking bone and for reducing the neck action required to reach the ground level all traits lacking in the complete opposite of the ropen's anatomy creating a contradiction between the body and the habits it's adapted for you think an organism with the habit of eating corpses buried underground would be more adapted to simply walking or digging the rope in with its reduced digits with very little traits for digging non-existent high limbs making walking virtually impossible short weak looking beak making breaking bones impossible super long tail getting in the way and massive wings that would make movement on the ground much less the dense jungles almost impossible would be an extremely unsuccessful animal for its proposed lifestyle it's almost as if whoever created i mean spotted the rope and had no knowledge of anatomy morphology and evolution it would make much more sense if the roping were to resemble or possess similar traits to as dirk and pterosaurs real animals that possessed a very similar lifestyle of eating ground-dwelling prey such as corpses but lasts as durkheids were only discovered and properly named in 1984 and their terrestrial ground habits were only discovered after the roping was uh spotted it would be far more logical for the ropens to have long high limbs with feet instead of non-existent legs hands fit for walking and digging with large digits with claws large beaks for crushing and reduced wings and tail due to a more terrestrial lifestyle as well as other traits that seem to be entirely absent in the rope in even though apparently they evolved to feeding habits that would require such traits why is the rokin with all its traits consistent of long-range flyers like albatrosses wasting its time and energy eating humans you'd think with the ropen's primary food source being buried underground it would be more evolved and adapted for digging than to flying it doesn't sound like the ropen can even dig well judging by its body descriptions also the ropen's food source is dead humans something that would be uncommon irregular and an inconsistent source of food considering human life expectancy i don't know it just sounds really dodgy for a real organism to have a lifestyle like this it's body plan contradicts the lifestyle it's said to have it just seems like someone thought up the rope in with various traits and characteristics and didn't think through the impacts they would have on the animal's diet and lifestyle it don't make no sense and oh man now for the big one bioluminescence and a terrestrial vertebrate bioluminescence has never been recorded in any terrestrial vertebrate it has been observed in marine vertebrates and invertebrates as well as some terrestrial invertebrates but tetrapods never we for some reason have found no bioluminescent amphibians lizards mammals or birds i'm not really sure why but regardless we have no evidence to say any bioluminescent tetrapods existed unless the ropen's glowing body makes zero sense it contradicts all the known evidence of all tetrapods that ever existed also why does the ropen have a glowing body does it use it to communicate does it use it to hunt no no one has really tried to ask these questions to my knowledge it's just flying fiery serpent in conclusion basically everything with the principle of the rope in existing makes little to no sense it's such an implausible organism that it's hard to take it seriously there is no current evidence and therefore no need to suggest the existence of late surviving pterosaurs its anatomy is inconsistent with any pterosaur and it just seemed to be a combination of famous fossils randomly spliced into one animal as well as only fitting now inaccurate and outdated ideas of pterosaurs and not real traits unknown at the time concerning pterosaurs its feeding habits contradict its body plant and would give it a very unreliable and unlikely food stores and its glowy glowy body is just downright silly and isn't consistent with any terrestrial vertebrate i actually emailed an actual pterosaur expert and not one who thinks pterosaurs were snakes i know a shocking idea and he being the phenomenal paleontologist mark whitten answered a few of my questions concerning the roping and the plausibility of such an animal whitten was pretty direct in his opinion on the rope and calling it as famous as it is unconvincing here's his responses to the questions i asked him did any pterosaur resemble this animal we know a lot of long-tailed pterosaurs had crest now but none of them were like the pteranodon crest as often described for the ropen a number of pterodactyloids had pteranodon like crest anatomy of course but these of course all have relatively short tails as you suggest the description of this animal and several other cryptid pterosaurs seem like amalgamations of most famous taxa which isn't surprising given how accounts of cryptids are often influenced by pop culture does it make sense for such a large pterosaur to have such a long tail it all depends on how big and long the tail is long tails add weight and drag and particularly if they have rudders or other large structures depending on the desired flight and lifestyle this might be a good or bad thing the best opinion for a long-tailed flyer considering early birds and pterosaurs is to have an extremely stiff tail that doesn't need much muscle to support it but of course mass compounds quickly with size and even that approach is going to quickly add a lot of weight to a large flyer this might be why one reason and there are probably others that we do not see long tails and the largest pterosaurs we're pterosaurs bioluminescent we haven't seen any indication of this in the pterosaur fossil record that said i'm not sure what sort of evidence we'd be looking for as bioluminescence is generated by biochemical reactions and soft tissues there may be chemical traces in fossil animal remains but i don't think people have looked for them in pterosaurs but tetrapods are not a luminescent cloud as a rule the only modern vertebrates with luminescent tissues are fish i assume you're familiar with the arguments that the bioluminescent bits of the ropen are lights on planes and lastly because one of the most vocal proponents of the robin is a creationist and believes that the roman is the fiery flying serpent from the bible is fiery flying serpent an accurate description of a pterosaur he said no no it is not this is the bible now let's take a look at the bible verse he is referencing and look at the actual original hebrew words and not just the english translation and see if this is actually describing some sort of bioluminescent pterosaur the fiery fine serpent referenced in isaiah is not a pterosaur if one looks at the original hebrew translation he or she will find it is most definitely not talking about pterosaur first the word fiery in the original text it is seraph which does not mean glowing luminous or shining or even anything really related to fire but actually translates to venomous fiery referencing the burning sensation of the venom in the bloodstream after something like a snake bite so there goes the bioluminescence junk the next word flying the word translated to flying is oof yeah real creative and it has been translated to flying but the word actually has multiple meanings it can be translated to darting or fleeing the primitive root of the word is to cover or obscure with darkness or to hide and flee not technically flying per se the only relation the word has to wings are flying really is the fact the word was associated with birds covering their youngs with their wing feathers not actually flying so even if the word here is being used to fly which it most likely is not it is not flying with membranous pterosaur wings but with feathered wings so again not a pterosaur the next word is serpent which is again sarah which numerous times in the bible is always referred to regular known snakes normally venomous ones not pterosaurs such as in deuteronomy 8 15 where it is described alongside scorpions reinforcing the concept that they are simply poisonous or venomous snakes that would have been encountered by the hebrews if the hebrews were describing an unknown animal they would have used a different word to describe it than sarap well because it makes absolutely no sense to use the word always associated with normal snakes with a now entirely unsnake-like animal that doesn't even resemble a snake in the slightest it is true seraph is also used i believe once to describe a sephirah magical beings with six wings human hands and voices but again this sounds nothing like a pterosaur saphir unlike pterosaurs or magical beings not real organisms the thing is pterosaurs don't look anything like snakes in the slightest all pterosaurs were not covered in scales but were actually covered in hair-like filaments pterosaurs had four limbs and walked on all fours well when somebody thinks of snakes or serpents the first thing they notice is its lack of any limbs it would be rather bizarre for them to compare a very unsnake-like animal to a snake especially using a word associated with normal snakes elsewhere in the bible and it's not like the hebrews didn't know of or have words for animals that resemble pterosaurs much closer than snakes such as bats to compare pterosaurs to snakes is like comparing bears to tortoises it makes absolutely no sense not to mention that some scholars say the serpent isn't even supposed to be taken literally and is in fact a symbol for hezekiah a hebrew ruler due to him being a tyrant and more terrible to the jews than the previous ruler uziah the viper or cockatrice before him regardless it becomes quite clear the speaker is not describing anything even the least bit resembling the pterosaur and to use the text as evidence to support the existence of pterosaurs coexisting with humans is just ridiculous and shows a distinct lack of research in paleontology biology and theology also how this flying fiery serpent got from the middle east to papua new guinea he has not even tried to explain ancient ancient aliens evidence now creationists and roman proponents alike claim that the ropen is an integral part of papua new guinea culture and can be seen in ancient artwork and religious beliefs and you think if such a creature existed and was encountered relatively often it would be very common in the culture and be written about and depicted a lot so i decided to investigate the evidence of the rope in in pre-european papua new guinea culture and if i found evidence of a pterosaur-like animal in their culture before europeans influenced the people that would be pretty good evidence to support the roman as a real creature but after a thorough and extensive search through various websites books encyclopedias and other sources of papua new guinea or oceanic culture and mythology links in the description i found absolutely zero evidence nor anything vaguely describing anything the least bit resembling the ropen or anything describing a glowing flying demon that terrorizes natives and digs up corpses that is except for creationists and or rope and promoting websites the closest thing i got to a legend regarding a luminous flying bean in papua new guinea culture and mythology was one of the papua new guinea creation stories the leg child or dudagira a being who was birthed out of a cut of his mother's leg and in some stories where a fish brushed up against her leg dude aguirre was bullied and mocked and eventually he became the sun and soared into the sky and burned the landscape with his fire it wasn't until his mother threw lime juice at him creating the first clouds and thus shade from the sun's rays did the apocalypse stop i found no references to grave digging spirits that glow in the dark nor did i find anything related to bat like demon fliers in the night you'd think with numerous accounts and descriptions over hundreds if not thousands of years as well as an entire part of their culture allegedly devoted to this being as claimed by creationists and roping proponents any smallest bit of pre-21st century evidence of the ropin in their culture would exist but nope hey i might be missing something but after a lengthy search for any evidence i have turned up nothing you can check for yourself but i myself found nothing absolutely zero of the anthropologists or sources i found reference anything the least bit describing a ropen or any luminous glowing demon that flies it's funny that the only sites that i found claiming that papawan or oceanic cultures described and worshipped this being or really anything related to the word ropin and other names used to describe this creature were creationists or ropin promoting websites you think if it's true we'd at the very least have a few non-creationist non-rope and promoting sources referencing this mythical creature right but i guess only creationists and the ropin lovers know about it yeah makes sense if anyone can point me to a non-creationist non-rope and promoting reliable scientific source referencing the ropin in pophound culture please post a comment to me but currently after being unable to find any reference of the being outside of creationists or rope in promoting sources i have to suggest that the entire roping thing is just a construct of post-european and post-western influences and not some ancient integral part of papalan or oceanic cultures i encourage anyone to provide me with any evidence proving otherwise and it would be greatly appreciated but until then this is my conclusion based on the evidence i've seen i also found people claiming statues and figurines such as this one are depictions of the ropin such as cryptid wiki's traditional statue of ropin from the upper river in blah blah blah papaw indonesia not only is this pose impossible for really any pterosaur to be in pterosaurs were quadrupeds remember but a few of these alleged statues depicting the rope and i was able to trace to auctioneer websites for artifacts the website says nothing even associating the figurine with the rope in demons glowing lights or grades all it says is this ramu river ancestral figure papua new guinea 20th century wacom village ancestral figure blah blah blah in tribal mythology these elongated figures with hooked noses are thought to represent important ancestors half human half eagle or this oceanic spirit fetish figure uh blah blah blah circa 1950's protective figure used for sorcery and healing or this wacom bird man ancestral figure all these source websites say they're ancestral bird person spirits half human half sea eagle bird person not pterosaurs it seems people have straight up light on many websites about the origin and meaning of these statues and it's not like these statues look like a pterosaur or anything it looks like a guy with a weird tribal hook nose mask and possibly an erect penis why the heck do i always talk about penises on the show they ain't ropings they're just penises wait what again the ancient or traditional evidence of ropens i've been able to track down is non-existent and it almost seems like the ropen is an entire western invention created during the late 20th century or the early 21st century the evidence most if not all the evidence of the roping is well dodgy or explainable first let's look at the video evidence uploaded to youtube in a video called ropin flying dinosaur and first of all if the author of this video is trying to say pterosaurs or dinosaurs they are not again just because something is a reptile and extinct does not make it a dinosaur well anywho let's look at the video after watching it i'll tell you one thing the animal in the video is a flying dinosaur but i don't think it's the kind the author meant the animal in the videos without a doubt a frigate bird you can tell just from the distinct wing and body shape so much for the evidence of the roping okay well that stinks next up we got photographic evidence from paul nation who is said to have recorded some video of roping lights in the sky you want to see his amazing evidence wow truly this is irrefutable evidence of bioluminescent pterosaurs yup that's the evidence it's it's stronger evidence of alien ufos than ropens if you ask me it's not especially convincing it could be just aircraft lights the footage is so grainy and the subjects are so blurry and small that calling them glow-in-the-dark pterosaurs seems like a massive stretch so yeah the physical evidence isn't all that convincing either really like in most cryptic cases all we have is eyewitness accounts but before we start let me specify again eyewitness accounts are the weakest and most unreliable form of evidence concerning any topic eyewitnesses can be manipulated they can forget they can have ulterior motives they can lie they can have confirmation bias they can be influenced so why is that that most proponents of cryptids often want us to take them 100 seriously we should take them with a grain of salt instead extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and well there are some extraordinary claims alright but as we just saw there is no extraordinary evidence sorry for the rant but just keep this in mind the eyewitnesses and bias ah yes the eyewitnesses let me just say flat out the eyewitnesses in this case are also not too convincing many of the interviews with the eyewitnesses have an absurd amount of leading the witness and prompting by interviewers dara nish even calls them textbook examples of how not to do an interview with great confusion over what is being claimed almost all descriptions given in these interviews are yes or no questions by interviewers so it's not really helpful for seeing what the eyewitnesses actually saw take for instance in a video i saw where where the interviewer just goes did it have a tail and the person just goes yes what shape was the tail was it diamond and he goes yes do you notice um did it did it have wings yeah his head wins okay apparently one of the best and most detailed accounts came from one man gideon corro but the thing is the anime claimed to have seen was about 100 feet up in the air that's a seven-story building no way you're gonna be seeing anything clearly or with detail when you consider it supposed to be moving as well these eyewitness accounts are not too convincing either almost all the descriptions are very vague and most of them are again just answers yes or no to interviewers questions i think and many others think it is far more logical for these eyewitness descriptions to be choked up to hoaxes tall tales and straight a pleas for attention like in mothman before we actually accept them as evidence of anything to do with 66 million year old extinct reptiles that look nothing like the animals described and i think it's time now to talk about the overarching elephant the size of kansas in the room connected to the ropen and that is its association with creationism christianity and a religious agenda that's just a fact it's kind of hard to talk about the rope and without talking about the biased of its proponents and investigators almost all roping proponents and investigators are young earth creationists and probably the most vocal proponent and investigator of them all is jonathan whitcomb who wrote a book describing his findings in 2006. he is probably the primary source of most of the information i collected about the rope and science eyewitnesses and etc in this video so i think it was only natural we talk about the source of all this information now for the record this is not an attack on jonathan whitcomb creationists or christians nor do i want anyone watching this video to take this as me saying he's a horrible person or something for all i know he's a super nice guy the only reason i bring up jonathan and his beliefs and this discussion is simply because in order to discover the truth we must look at jonathan's reliability as an eyewitness and investigator and see if his personal beliefs have or might have affected the evidence he collects now again jonathan whitcomb is a young earth creationist on numerous occasions he flat out deny scientific evidence such as the evidence of the age of the earth fossil record and evolution now jonathan whitcomb is allowed to believe whatever he wants as we all are and i am most definitely not saying just because he's a christian or a creationist he is not a reliable source of information some of the best paleontologists are christians robert t backer the coolest and one of the most influential paleontologists of time is a preacher for heck's sake what you believe personally does not discredit anyone as a scientist or investigator or an eyewitness it is only when your beliefs affect how you interpret observations and evidence do they discredit you as scientists it is our duty to look at evidence objectively not through some religious or personal belief system we should interpret evidence as it is not how we want it to be or not how our religion wants it to be this is the key to being a good scientist investigator etc seeking the truth no matter how painful how discomforty how damaging to one's opinions or beliefs it is now do i believe whitcomb's beliefs bias or opinions impede his ability to make scientific and objective observations yeah i think so anyone who has examined whitcomb either in his books or on his website will find that he is a heavily biased worldview and agenda he makes it quite clear throughout his published works his personal religious beliefs in creationism and the christian god are central and the main reason for his investigations and searches for evidence of the ropin in his book he makes it clear his main goal is not to benefit the scientific community via the discovery of an unknown organism but to disprove evolution and promote his religious beliefs to the world to me personally and this is just my opinion so take it with a grain of salt it seems he doesn't really care about finding evidence he seems to only care about verifying his own preconceptions which is just bad for any investigator his book even quotes a conversation with the papawan government official saying i told him of the problems we have in america because some disbelieve in god and i mentioned how finding the ropens could help he makes it clear what his primary goal is and it doesn't make him very appealing as a reliable collector of evidence interviewer or investigator objectively speaking whitcomb's proselytizing does nothing to help prove the existence of the ropen and is just a distraction from finding the truth in all this again mr whitcomb don't take this the wrong way i bet you're a great guy personally and this is not meant as an attack on you as a person but as an investigator and a scientist and an eyewitness i think you have some very heavy bias and i don't find your work too reliable as evidence of the ropen my viewers can make their choice if they agree with me or not so in conclusion from this investigation i have discovered that the ropin is not scientifically plausible as an organism it makes little to no sense anatomically with an energy wasting tail bioluminescence never exhibited in any tetrapod and a lifestyle of digging up graves it doesn't fit any description of any known pterosaur and seems to most fit outdated and now inaccurate pterosaur reconstructions more than anything with pointed wingtips naked skin wrapped bodies as opposed to the sleek furry air sac-toting animals we now know and it almost seems like it was constructed or hoaxed by someone who claimed to have seen outdated pterosaur reconstructions not actually any real animal it's obvious that the ropen was a western invention created by someone who knows virtually nothing about real pterosaur anatomy and only knows inaccurate pop culture pterosaur depictions trying to pass them off as the real deal evidence to support the ropin is virtually non-existent with photos either being misidentifications or way too blurry to make really anything out and its cultural history has also been non-existent until western influences of course eyewitness descriptions are either simply way too vague or comes from dodgy sources that seem to have ulterior motives really after stripping away all the misconceptions all the non-evidence in all the bad eyewitness reports we are only left with an outdated description of a now scientifically inaccurate pterosaur that glows for some reason that is held up by creationists as proof of the bible it's ridiculous implausible and not supported by any evidence whatsoever and i think it's pretty safe to say that the ropen is oh well in his scientific terms bullcrap and is nothing more than some tall tale some bible thumper created while looking at rodan from the kaiju monster series it's a case that is more about religion than it is about a cryptid so that is why i'm saying it is safe to say they're open did not and does not exist if someone has evidence to say otherwise be my guest to provide it to me but for the time being after viewing all the current evidence at the time of this video i've concluded that there really is no logical reason to believe anything about the ropin is true thank you so much for watching i love to talk more and possibly do a what if scenario but i think this video has gone long enough i'll save it for a part two vid tell me what you think of the ropin after all the evidence this video has been a long time coming i've been waiting a while to put it out and collect all the research and i was just wanting to say i'm happy to see it published so see ya and goodbye oh yeah i made a video without an owl or basking shark joke wait is that in itself an hour basking shark

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Published: Fri Jul 01 2016