Dragon-dinos

Under a carpet in Carlisle cathedral aisle
a brass plate over a marble tomb
(about 500 years old); engraved with
a dog, a fish, a bird, an eel
and two mythical creatures (it is said)
—  or are they?
They look just like saurapod dinosaurs
but 500 years ago, those fossils hadn’t been discovered,
and the word ‘dinosaur’ hadn’t been invented.
When their fossils were found it was not realised
a long while that their walking stance
was as depicted on this brass plate;.

Similarly some cave drawing
look remarkably like dinosaurs.

Could humans have seen an occasional dinosaur
or dinosaur-like winged reptile?!

Why not?
They are supposed to have died out 65 million years
before humans ‘evolved’.
But soft tissue is found in many of their fossils.
Such couldn’t have survived chemical
disintegration for anywhere near such timescales.

All over the world we have stories of
a great flood catastrophe.
Such an event would have killed off
many dinosaurs, and the environment/climate
could then have been less favourable for them
so that their numbers dwindled,
For many years they might have been seen occasionally,
and give rise to stories of strange beast sightings.
What would they have called them?

They would have seemed so  strange, different.
and therefore frightening
(even if never close enough to know if violent or peaceful —
like the Loch Ness Monster !!??)
Think of all the mythical
creature stories all around the world,
from land and sea … dragons, sea monsters …

Did Saint George kill a dinosaur,
or a dinosaur-like winged reptile?

[IP: 'legendary creatures']