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Bill Gibbons first became interested in mystery animals during his childhood years in Scotland. After watching an early movie adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's,'The Lost World,' the young Gibbons thought to himself that perhaps there really are living dinosaurs, or at least animals very much like them, alive in the remote areas of our planet. His curiosity eventually resulted in two major expeditions to Congo, in 1985-6, and 1992, in search of the Mokele-mbembe. Two other field investigations were conducted on the island of Mauritius in the southern Indian Ocean in 1990 and 1997, after two European visitors claimed Dodo sightings. Operation Congo III, and Project Dodo III are currently under development.
Gibbons became a born again Christian in 1986 during his first Congo adventure, and has since acquired his bachelor and master degrees in Religious Education from the Immanuel Baptist College in Atlanta, Georgia. It is his belief in a young earth that has prompted him to pursue scientific creationism, and to this end believes that the theory of evolution and special creation must both be accepted as a matter of faith. There is, he contends, mounting scientific evidence for a relatively young universe, and an even younger earth. Evidence to substantiate this is often suppressed by evolutionists who would otherwise be thoroughly discredited.
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J. Richard Greenwell has traveled to many parts of the world to investigate the evidence for "unverified" animals, those animals hinted at by native folklore or Western eyewitness accounts but which remain unknown to -- or unaccepted by -- systematic zoology. Originally from Surrey, England, Mr. Greenwell spent 6 years in South America, after which he was appointed Research Coordinator of the Office of Arid Lands Studies at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. He has served as Secretary of the International Society of Cryptozoology since its founding in 1982.
Mr. Greenwell has conducted zoological and cryptozoological fieldwork in the U.S., China, the Congo, Papua New Guinea, several South American countries, and Mexico. His most recent fieldwork was in northern California in August, 1997, when he directed a four-person scientific expedition attempting to obtain evidence for the reported Sasquatch (Bigfoot). In 1991, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Mexico's University of Guadalajara. A member of numerous scientific societies, including the American Society of Mammalogists, Mr. Greenwell is a Fellow of both the Explorers Club (New York) and the Royal Geographical Society (London). He is the author of over 100 scholarly and popular articles, and, since 1993, he has been a columnist for BBC Wildlife magazine, Britain's leading animal conservation publication.
A guest on many radio and television programs, Mr. Greenwell has also given lectures on cryptozoology at many colleges and universities, scientific institutions, museums, zoos, and aquariums. He has twice been a Smithsonian invited lecturer at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, in Washington D.C.
J. Richard Greenwell
Secretary
International Society of Cryptozoology (ISC)
