![]() ![]() Sadly this unique beast’s corpse was never recovered by any legitimate scientific body. In the late 1800s a Lau was reportedly seen near Waw, Sudan, but the creature’s first brush with international acclaim came in 1914, when a group of Shilluk aborigines reportedly killed a specimen of this creature in the swamps of Addar in order to use its bones to create protective amulets. The creatures have also been reputed to emit a similar cry, which natives say is reminiscent of the thundering of elephants. The two animals are said to share numerous characteristics, including a taste for human flesh. The Lau is often associated with the Lukwata of Lake Victoria, which is connected to Lake No by east Africa’s White Nile. Most investigators regard these reports as representing essentially different animals. Still other accounts describe an aquatic “super snake” with legs. That description duly noted there have been other reports which have depicted the beast as being muscular and round, not entirely unlike a monstrous version of the hippopotamus. It is usually described as an immense Elasmosaur-like creature (which can grow from 12- to 100-feet in length) with a long tapering neck, yellowish brown pigmentation and a body which has been compared to a donkey with flippers, the Lau’s most intriguing attribute would have to be the series of bristling, tentacle-like appendages, which allegedly protrude from the animal’s muzzle and aid it in snaring its prey. The Lau is a large, carnivorous, tentacled dinosaur-like creature that is said to stalk the dense, papyrus filled swamps around central Sudan’s Lake No. If Lau Wasn’t living dinosaur, Lau is a Giant Fish What cryptid are you? Click to take the quiz. ![]()
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