July 11, 2008
Extinct, Maybe, but Digitally in Flight
The scene opens with an Arkansas bayou. The camera skims about 10 feet above a broad, brown river hemmed in by gnarled, leafy mangroves. Suddenly a bird crosses before the camera like a jet fighter breaking formation. After weaving back and forth a few times, it breaks right again and disappears.
In point of fact, it was never there. The short video is part of an unusual experiment using computer graphics to verify the existence of a mysterious animal.
For 60 years, a
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