Row

The Row, also called the Ruhruh, is an enormous reptilian animal reported in the star mountains on the Papua New Guinea/West Papua border. The first and only sighting by a European was in the 1930s by explorer Charles Miller and his wife, Leona Jay in Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua.

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Miller managed to briefly visit the Kirrirri tribe and found that a woman was husking a coconut with an odd horn with ridges and grooves on it. Miller asked the woman via gestures what it came from and she drew an animal with a small, horned head, long neck, and large body, and a long tail, while pointed to it and saying "row." He was later told by his Kirrirri interpreter that a row lived outside the camp a couple of kilometres away, so Miller and Leona went to investigate. 

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After a several days hike, they came across a plateau and stood there watching as a group of reeds started moving on the edge of the clearing. They watched as a 20 to 30 foot long animal with a very long, thin neck with a small, horned head came out of the reeds. It had a scaly, elephantine body with large plates on its back, and had a tail that was almost three times as long as its body. Miller claimed to have filmed the creature, although it is now lost. 

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Miller theorized it was a surviving dinosaur, although no known dinosaur remotely matches his description. Unfortunately, this story is almost certainly fictitious as cryptozoologists have pointed out that there’s no tribe called the Kirrirri.