Here's a coda to @globsterblobsandmore.com's most excellent work on a mystery "living dinosaur" from the 1930s. moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/t...
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A new scholarly article fills gaps in the history of a “living dinosaur” cryptid from the 1930s that eventually became a completely fictional pop cryptid of today.
Reconstruction of the 1932 Grobler/Johanson case: the original ‘Kassaisaurus’ report including photographs and its later transformation into the pop-cultural ‘Kasai Rex’ motif. Review of Schomburgk’s ‘Chimpekwe’ accounts in context. globsterblobsandmore.com/more/kassais...
In July 1932, the South African Franz Grobler reported in the Cape Argus on his investigations in Central Africa concerning a creature referred to by local populations as the ‘Chepekwé’ or ‘water lion...
