KalMart
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I would disagree with that - we have scientific evidence of "winged giant reptiles" existing in terms of countless fossils, we have zero scientific evidence of man-dogs. It's the time frame of their existance, not whether they existed at all, that comes into question when we look at ancient accounts (if you so chose to look at them in more than an entertainment fashion).
But not ones that date back to the time of American Indians or Egyptians. Nothing has ever reliably placed a fossil like that in those times, so all you have to base it on is a coincidence in the imagery that, again, is shared in many mythologies...from times tat also share a complete lack of fossil evidence that remotely corroborate it.
I will have to side with Schlosser though - it's within the realm of possibility that some type of dinosaur(s) outlived it's brethern 65 million years ago for some amount of time (excluding our current-day organisms evolutionary ancestors). Plenty of other organisms survived the meteorite and even flurish to this day. But a real life Flinstones? Nah.
Also, you have to consider this.
If you look at the skeleton of an elephant...with all its flesh removed and skattered about...it really doesn't look like an elephant. In fact, it could easily be deciphered to be the skeleton of a large cyclops or the like...if you didn't specifically know it came from an elephant. Also...look up the skeleton of a dolphin, then think again about the tales of a flying serpent. If you were a person a couple of thousand years ago, without the education or common knowledge that we have today, and you saw one of those on a beach....what would you think it was?
There is a lot of lack in understanding and scientific identifiability of simple things like living whales breaching the surface or their washed-up carcasses that could easily have contributed to imagery in folklore. Basically, takes of 'monsters' in mythology and folklore generally speak more to the human condition than they do the real, tangible natural world of the time.
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