Mexico: Miners Attacked By Mysterious

Creature Baffling to Scientists

• Miners claim they were attacked by “mysterious creature” during a mineral exploration expedition in Mexico • Speculation the animal could be an extinct Jurassic pterosaur • Bourne University claims the animal may be a ‘M'ugg’ from the Archean A model of the reported creature, resembling some form of winged reptile. Mexico City - Three hundred miles west of Estan, an incident occurred involving miners working for the Gulf Corporation. Earlier this year, the Gulf de Cortez Drilling Corporation began mining operations in the jungle of Xuan near the mountain plateau of Mexico. It was during one of these operations that a mysterious creature attacked the miners. Described by one of the miners as “a giant flying lizard,” after the attack the creature then disappeared over the jungle. One of the witnessing miners gave his account of what happened, “We had just taken a break for lunch and had worked our way out of the caverns to the trucks. And out of nowhere, this thing- this great winged devil attacks us. It happened so quickly and then it was just gone.” “It was nothing like I’ve ever seen,” another miner recalled, “A flying dragon. I never knew an animal like that existed, even all the way out here in the jungle.” Eye witness testimony and trace evidence of the scene were examined by scientists from the University of Mexico, but they remain baffled. “The tracks we did manage to find, don’t seem to match up with any animal or avian tracks we have on record,” said one scientist, “It’s pretty compelling as to what could have possibly made them.” Remote mining and forestry workers have reported many sightings of the creature, which many believe may be more than one animal or colony living in the Mexican jungles. Many speculate as to the reason of the attack and the mystery behind the creature. While there are no solid leads at this time, some of the miners imply that it may have something to do with recently opened ancient caverns in the base camp regions during the mining explorations. “Going down there gave me a bad feeling,” one miner claimed, “You hear things about the caverns. Rumors and stories and stuff. But we didn’t have much of a choice. We had a job to do.” A representative from the Gulf de Cortez Drilling Corporation though, said otherwise: “All of our permits and permissions were in order and we conducted a thorough inspection of the sight before the mining began. We are confident that whatever happened had nothing to do with our company or the expedition. We plan on getting back to work as soon as possible.” Scientists report the creature may be related to an extinct Pterosaur, flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria. Bourne scientists say it resembles a M'ugg. While the incident in Mexico appears to be isolated, there have been other reports of mysterious creatures. In 1925, a doctor exploring Mount Salak in Indonesia encountered a mysterious winged creature (citation here). And in 1932, a Swedish plantation owner encountered a dinosaur-like creature in the Kasai Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (citation here). In 1941, miners in Ecuador, blasting into newly mapped ore walls in the Andes Mountains, uncovered a winged monster that seemed to emerge from hibernation. The creature escaped through the newly drilled vertical shaft after croaking and spreading, its gigantic, leathery wings, escaping into the mountains. Associate Professor Donald Foster, Head of Prehistoric Studies at Bourne University, said the animal could also have been a M'ugg, a winged reptile that may have been the ancestor of the pteradon family. "We have evidences in the descriptive reports that the animal's head body and wing type could only have been one of the Archean animals we are now seeing reported around the world, in fossil or living form." He sited several examples of living fossils, alligators, crocodiles, the coelacanth, and some sharks that have been documented to have changed little in millions (or billions) of years of evolution. At this time the four 'monstrous incidents' appear unrelated and no other evidence has been discovered.