ANGKOR WAT TEMPLE.

This temple was built in North Cambodia in the 12th century. One thing that stands out on the decorative panels is a design of what appears to be a prehistoric animal. A stegosaurus. How could people of that time have known about such a creature? It is not until 200 years ago that any such animals could be identified.
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I think dinos did not all die out til humans were here. People think the asteroid hit and instant death to all. But, it looks like it happened over time, maybe a million years. What is time to us is not to the earth. I also think dragons were actually dinosaurs. Most human history was verbal, stories passed on and embroidered to make the teller more important.
Perhaps some dinos were still alive for humans to see and tell stories about. Or..they found the eroded fossils and were so amazed, they created art in their image. We find frozen mastodons and mammoths. They existed with humans til humans ate them all.frustrated
Is it possible that there were dried or frozen carcasses of dinos that prehistoric humans found?dunno
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This shows the difference between a Mammoth a Mastodon & a modern Elephant.
They existed with humans til humans ate them all.

They might have been the only food source during winter and your ancestors could have died out and you never existed without eating them or maybe they were just delicious, like Doritos you can’t just eat one sad flower
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For someone to engrave a stone with the exact shape of a dinosaur in that period of history, must make one ask the question, Were all dinosaurs wiped out? Or did some survive around the world? How else could the designer have known what a stegosaurus looked like?
Of course it's possible that this particular animal was alive at a time in their memory and would have earned a place in the stone mural if for example it had recently gone extinct.

I would say that it could be a reasonably good copy of the animal based on the fact that the horses and elephants are quite accurate in some other carvings.

The other thing I noticed is that they surround most of their carvings with a string of carved stone shapes. So maybe those are not backbone extensions but decorative flat stone shapes added to fill the gap. Who knows, I certainly don't.
The carving on the temple shows the spine and the defensive protruding shapes that would only be visible on a complete body and not just a skeleton. Knowledge of such a species of dinosaur would not have been possible until recent times. Other such engravings were found in South America on spherical items found, and these depict people either with dinosaur creatures or riding them.
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