A young mother and her son were wading along the shores of the Yangtze river in China when it began to rain. The mother began gathering their belongings to head home when she saw her son running deeper into the water. Fearing the child would drown, she noticed an enormous yellowish-red area under the water's surface. Leaning in to take a closer look, she received the shock of her life, as the yellowish-red "area" began rising out of the water. First two horns, followed by an enormous head, attached to the largest creature the woman had ever seen. Fearing for her child's life, she reached out to grab him, but the boy was squealing in delight as he pet the unknown creature. The woman lay still as all 40 feet of this creature emerged from the river and calmly walked past her and her son. It was then that she noticed an egg in the creature's foreclaw. This was the first record of this creature later identified as the Asian Lung.