I was a rookie back then.” Two decades later, the legend of mokele-mbembe remains alive, whispered in villages and embellished with each new “sighting,” and Abong’o says deforestation is ...

This alleged dinosaur, often called Mokele-Mbembe or “one who stops the flow of rivers” in Lingala, was described as a massive, long-necked herbivore wading through African rivers. Its origins ...