When I was young I was taught that dinosaur fossils were a lie, a hoax, used to deceive us and make us question the Bible. I thought the "bones" were either fabricated, or they took actual bones they found and put them together to make up creatures that never really existed.
I don't recall how old I was, but I recall watching a program that showed dinosaur tracks. For some reason, this is what made me start to think that dinosaurs had actually existed. I don't know why I didn't think they had faked the tracks; perhaps my reasoning skills were far enough developed that any program on dinosaurs would have convinced me.
My parents (and when I say this I mean mostly my mom, as she was the one in charge of what we believed, or not) finally came to the conclusion that dinosaurs did exist. Mom thought that for some reason god had them on some sort of proto-earth before he changed it to suit humans. Even later, they bought into the ridiculous story that they existed alongside humans and were wiped out in the flood.
Attached are images of my pet dinosaurs. They are now inside for the winter. I've recently added an Allosaurus, but need a photo of it. The next one will be a Stegosuarus.
Posted by JoeBKite-like structures in the western Sahara Desert.
Posted by TriphidAn Aussie Indigenous Message Stick.
Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.
Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.
Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.
Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.
Posted by JoeBDortoka vremiri: A new species of Dortokid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of the Hațeg Basin, Romania.
Posted by JoeBThe Cabeço da Amoreira burial: An Early Modern Era West African buried in a Mesolithic shell midden in Portugal.
Posted by JoeBMusivavis amabilis: A new species of Enantiornithine Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China.
Posted by JoeBTorosaurus in Canada.
Posted by JoeBStone tools from the Borselan Rock Shelter, in the Binalud Mountains of northeastern Iran.
Posted by JoeBDating the Lantian Biota.
Posted by JoeBBashanosaurus primitivus: A new species of Stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Chongqing Municipality, China.
Posted by JoeBDetermining the time of year when the Chicxulub Impactor fell.
Posted by JoeBSão Tomé and Príncipe: Possibly the last country on Earth never to have been visited by a working archaeologist.
Posted by JoeBMambawakale ruhuhu: A new species of Pseudosuchian Archosaur from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania.