anaconda discovered in lake thunderbird state park

I guess, they realized no one else had one, and since we were out eating at the picnic table, they asked if there was a fire ban, and when we said 'yes', they extinguished their fire. This couple, was camping almost across from us, and they started a camp fire in a ring. We had nothing to hide and did nothing wrong, but were mistaken for some other couple. This is a state park! Had I known that perhaps crimes do take place here, and that there is unfriendly surveillance by suspicious bullying rangers, I would never have stayed here. I have never been to a place where a ranger acted like that. The ranger with whom we had an encounter was not polite nor friendly. Rangers who patrol parks are always friendly and are helpful, and they are there for the safety of campers, and not harrasment of people.

Therefore, I googled it, and there are several negative reports about the park ranger behavior. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.We had a most unusual and disconcerting experience in this lovely campground today, which made us seek more information on it. Nevertheless, its absence does leave the reported rise in drowning deaths unexplained-except by a few folks who proffer that giant catfish are to blame.īut you can still find some octopus in Oklahoma! Thursday, December 19, Tulsa's Circle Cinema along with Book Smart Tulsa, will be hosting a reading, talk and signing from Octopus! The Most Mysterious Creature In the Sea at 7pm. Unlike even Bigfoot, Chupacabra and the Loch Ness Monster, the Oklahoma Octopus has granted no photographic clues-no matter how blurry or improbable.

And a 'river octopus' would have to have adapted to freshwater and at some point made its way up the Mississippi and subsequent smaller rivers, swimming upstream-and navigating numerous dams. Second, most of Oklahoma's many lakes-including those in question-were constructed in the mid-20 th century as engineering projects by damming local rivers. No cephalopod has been known to make this whole transition. But this theory has some big holes.įirst, a shift to entirely fresh water would require some extreme changes in physiology, including the basic ion transport in their cells. It can even occasionally walk on land for short periods of time.Ĭould the octopus, conceivably, adapt to freshwater as well? Bolstering the case for the Oklahoma Octopus, some species of this animal are found in the brackish mouths of large rivers.

In its hundreds of millions of years on this planet, the octopus has managed to populate just about every corner, crevice and water column of the seas-from the warm shallows of the tropics to the deep frigid waters off the coast of Antarctica. The octopus is a marvel of adaptation, thanks in large part to its short generation time (just months to a year) and its thousands upon thousands of offspring. Over the millennia, this particular line of octopuses has adapted to freshwater, these proponents suggest. This unlikely animal, people have explained, might be a rare living fossil, left over from the time (tens of millions of years ago) when this part of the country was, indeed, a shallow sea-and a perfect octopus habitat. How could a sea creature have found its way to lakes in the Heartland? This beast (or beasts), dubbed the 'Oklahoma Octopus,' reportedly drags swimmers down with its many strong arms. Animal Planet's Lost Tapes even aired an investigation of this crypto-creature. The legend of a killer cephalopod lurking in the murky waters of the state's Lake Thunderbird, Lake Tenkiller or Lake Oolagah has been surfacing for at least the past several years. TULSA, Okla.-As the rate of unexplained drowning deaths has reportedly crept up in Oklahoma's placid lakes, some observers have turned to an unusual explanation: a freshwater octopus.

Anaconda discovered in lake thunderbird state park