Dinosaurs

[kevin36]

That isn't a reference to the hippos tail. It's a euphemism for the Hippo's genitals. Dinosaurs were quite real, but never walked the Earth with humans.

Proof?

 

[heron]

lol i was once told that god put them there as a trick. i was like thats ridiculous why would he do that.

Wow. Wow again.

You might enjoy some of the sites and books on mythical creatures, because they include actual firsthand accounts of people who saw strange animals that are scoffed at now. These sightings happened on every continent, through all ages of civilization.

Chinese New Year celebrates a time when villagers had to scare away the beast Nien with lights and loud noises.

Do a search on Kraken, St. George's dragon, the Lambton worm, the Piasa near the Mississippi, the Ethiopian Dream, the Klagenfurt Lindwurm, Haymo the Tyrolean dragonslayer, Dobrynja and Gorynytch (Kiev), Madagascar Aepyornis, Thai/Indonesian Garuda, the Peruvian Sachamama....Herodotus' sighting of a phoenix in Egypt... and look through Renaissance paintings.

Creatures with similar features and bhaviors came up in disconnected civilizations, in both art and history.

A broad article here:
http://www.biopark.org/dragonhistory.html