Did Man and Dinosaur Coexist?

I think they did.

In the Old Testament of our Holy Bible, dragons (or terrible lizards) are referred to over 20 times.

Example:

quote:

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Job 40:15-23 
“Lo, I pray thee, Behemoth, that I made with thee: Grass as an ox he eateth. 
Lo, I pray thee, his power [is] in his loins, And his strength in the muscles of his 
belly. 
He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are wrapped together,
His bones [are] tubes of brass, His bones [are] as a bar of iron.
He [is] a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker bringeth nigh his sword;
For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there…
Lo, a flood oppresseth -- he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth
come forth unto his mouth.”

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I should stop here and say this isn't intended to be a religious debate thread. I think there is ample evidence to suggest large reptiles survived into the modern era.

That passage quoted above seems to describe a large herbivore that should have been unknown to the people of that period.

Another such piece of evidence is in the story of Beowulf.

quote:

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Grendel's swift hard claws 
snatched at the first Geat 
He came to, ripped him apart, cut 
His body to bits with powerful jaws, 
Drank the blood from his veins and bolted 
Him down, hands and feet; death 
And Grendel's great teeth came together, 
Snapping life shut." 

"but their weapons 
Could not hurt him, 
the sharpest and hardest iron 
Could not scratch at Grendel's skin" 

“The fiend reached for him with his claw, but he grasped it with set purpose, and 
threw his weight on Grendel’s arm.” 

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So dragons are cultural Universals. Every culture in the world contains myths about dragons. Before we created the term dinosaur, the term dragon was used to describe terrible lizards.



As recently as 1614 there have been reportings of these things. In this case, the dinosaur seems to have been slaughtering someone's livestock.



Here is a Hongshan carving of a Protoceratops.



And a tyrannosaurus Rex carved on a church somewhere in the country of Georgia.



There are loads more examples of this. What does it mean? No idea, but it's pretty cool.

Years back I saw a photo taken in the 1970s I think of a man that had killed a small raptor in the Grand Canyon. Can't find the photo anymore, but he was holding this reptile by the tail and it looked about 4' long nose to tail and was bipedal. Wish I could find that one again.