If you believe the data of official science, modern humans appeared 30-40 thousand years ago, and our most primitive ancestor - about 2 million years ago. Dinosaurs are known to have died out 65 million years ago. Thus, it turns out that humans and dinosaurs could not coexist at the same time on our planet. However, there are archaeological finds that suggest the opposite …
Extinct, but not all?
When it comes to whether dinosaurs could have survived to our times, scientists usually deny this possibility with code. The most progressive of them cautiously say that small populations of prehistoric animals could still survive in the waters of the World Ocean, but not on land. Is it worth unquestioningly to believe such statements?
Fossilized remains of a Hadrosaurus cub.
Relatively recently, the media flashed a message about the sensational discovery of American paleontologists who found the next remains of dinosaurs. It turned out that these animals lived for at least another 700 thousand years after, according to the generally accepted version, the kingdom of lizards was destroyed by an asteroid that fell to Earth. It turns out that if there was a global catastrophe, then it brought death not to all lizards. After such a conclusion, nothing prevents us from assuming that some dinosaurs could well have survived to the appearance of Homo sapiens and even to our days.
Interestingly, the fossilized bones discovered by scientists belonged to hadrosaurs. They were duck-billed dinosaurs with short front legs and long hind legs, with the help of which, moving by jumping like kangaroos, they quickly ran away from their enemies. A long, flat tail served them to maintain balance. It is important to note that, according to the latest data, these dinosaurs are classified as terrestrial inhabitants, since needles and plant leaves were found in their stomachs. This allows us to conclude that not only aquatic dinosaurs could have survived, but also their land-based counterparts.
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Dinosaurs are the Serpents of the Gorynychi
So, it is quite possible to assume that the European knights at one time fought not with mythical dragons, but with the surviving lizards. Note that dragons are present in ancient legends, myths and tales of different peoples of the world. Doesn't this speak about their real existence in ancient times?
Perhaps the Serpent Gorynych is not an extinct dinosaur that the Russian heroes fought with.
It is curious that in the Chinese Zodiac, according to which each year is associated with one or another animal, 11 out of 12 animals actually exist, and only the dragon stands out from this row. Maybe when the Zodiac was composed, no one doubted the existence of dragons? And all because of the fact that dragons-dinosaurs then roamed the Earth!
Some Russian researchers are sure that the fabulous dragons and Serpents of the Gorynychi, with which the Russian heroes fought, are not the fruit of the unbridled imagination of our ancestors, but lizards that once existed in the forests of Ancient Rus. The basis for such assumptions was the bronze plaques (1 millennium AD) of the legendary Chud tribe.
Once this tribe inhabited the north of the European part of Russia and the Urals. On the bronze plaques, along with ordinary animals (moose, bears, etc.), there were many very realistic images of lizards. It is difficult to assume that among the Chuds there were paleontologists who reconstructed the appearance of extinct animals from the bones found. This means that people at that time still met the surviving prehistoric reptiles.
Facts about Corcodiles …
There are also historical facts testifying to the presence of huge reptiles on the territory of Russia in ancient times. Their existence was mentioned in his notes by the Austrian ambassador Sigismund Herberstein, who visited our area in 1517 and 1526. He wrote:
“This area is teeming with groves and forests where you can observe terrible phenomena. It is there and to this day there are a lot of idolaters who feed some snakes with four short legs like lizards, with a black and fat body … with some fear and reverently worship them, crawling out to the supplied food …"
Evolution has hardly changed the appearance of crocodiles.
In chronicles dating back to 1582, scientists found the following curious entry:
Scientists determined the date of death of the prince from other documents, that is, the timing of the attack of aquatic reptiles turned out to be accurate.
Apparently, some extraordinary circumstances (hot summer, pestilence of fish, or a dramatically increased livestock) forced the fierce "corcodiles" to leave the reservoirs and attack people.
… or crocodiles?
In 1589, Jerome Garsey, an agent for an English trading company, traveled to Russia via Poland. On the way, he happened to observe an exotic beast, namely, a dead poisonous crocodile. In his diary, he wrote:
“I left Warsaw in the evening, crossed the river, where a poisonous dead crocodile lay on the bank, whose belly was torn by my people with spears. At the same time, such a stench spread that I was poisoned by it and lay sick in the nearest village, where I met such sympathy and Christian help that I quickly recovered."
It can hardly be assumed that all of this historical evidence is fiction. Where did the "corcodiles" go from the reservoirs of Russia? It is believed that a cold snap contributed to their disappearance. But it is possible that these reptiles were exterminated by people. It can be assumed that in much more ancient times, in some regions of the planet, there were much more dinosaurs, and for some tribes or even civilizations they were ordinary ordinary animals, like moose and bears for us.
The mystery of the Acambaro figurines
Most likely, America was one of such regions of the planet, as evidenced by the amazing archaeological finds. Suffice it to recall the mysterious collection of figurines from the Mexican town of Acambaro, which has long confused the minds of archaeologists, historians and mystery lovers. This collection was put together by Waldemar Julsrud (1875-1964), a German businessman who was involved in the hardware trade in Acambaro.
Many people doubt the authenticity of the figurines.
One day in the summer of 1944, while riding on horseback, he noticed objects protruding from the ground in a gully on the slope of El Toro. Taking a piece of a branch, he dug into the ground with it and extracted an ancient-looking clay figurine from it. After a while, Dzhulsrud returned to the gully with a familiar peasant and his two sons, together they began excavations on the hillside and removed several more figurines from the ground. Since there were clearly plenty of antiquities inside the hill, Djulsrud agreed with the peasant family that he would pay them one peso for each intact figurine found.
30 thousand pesos per collection
Ten years later, the merchant found himself the owner of a huge collection of 30,000 artifacts recovered from the El Toro hill. The statuettes varied quite a lot in size: the smallest were about 20 centimeters, while the largest reached a height of one meter. Among the statuettes there were many images of a wide variety of dinosaurs (about 2,600) and other extinct animals. Some figurines clearly indicated that humans existed simultaneously with giant lizards.
The paleontologist's collection contains 30,000 specimens.
Paleontologists easily recognized the types of dinosaurs known to them among the figurines: brachiosaurus, ankylosaurus, iguanodon, tyrannosaurus, pteranodon, plesiosaurus, brontosaurus and a number of others. It can hardly be assumed that the ancient people could somehow restore the appearance of extinct dinosaurs from their fossilized remains, which means they saw dinosaurs alive!
All attempts by Waldemar Djulsrud to attract the attention of scientists to his collection ended in failure. As soon as the pundits saw the dinosaur figures, they declared the entire collection a hoax. It was only thanks to journalists that the world community became aware of these unique finds. They were the ones who attended the excavations and saw how the figures, entangled with tree roots, were removed from the ground. There was no question that someone had specially buried them in the El Toro hill.
The chief of police has nothing to do with it
This was ultimately recognized by the scientists, who in 1954 themselves selected a site on the hillside covered with a perennial layer of sod, and, after excavating, discovered several figurines. Later, Professor Hapgood, along with his colleague Sanderson, were present at the excavation of a section of the El Toro hillside, which was located in the courtyard of the house of Police Chief Acambaro. This site was not chosen by chance, according to scientists, the falsifiers would hardly have dared to bury forgeries in the courtyard of the servant of the law. However, 43 figurines were also removed from the ground here!
Until now, the unique collection of artifacts from the El Toro hill has not found recognition among archaeologists and historians. Besides dinosaur figurines, there are many other shocking objects in it that are easier to ignore than explain. Of course, attempts have been made to date the Akambaro figurines, according to them, the age of the finds falls in the interval from 2 to 5 thousand years.
Riding a lizard
They prefer to ignore the scientists and another famous collection put together by Dr. Javier Cabrera. This is a collection of stones covered with ancient engraved designs. Currently, in various museums and private collections there are more than 50 thousand copies of Ica stones. They are still found in various burials along the coast of southern Peru. The stones with ancient engraved drawings got their name from the Peruvian city of Ica, in the vicinity of which they were most often found and where most of them are now stored.
You can talk about this collection for a very long time. The drawings depicted on the stones simply shock scientists: they can see an organ transplant operation, and a person observing the starry sky through a telescope, and various aircraft. A lot of drawings depict dinosaurs! But, alas, none of the scientists wanted to discredit themselves by studying such ambiguous findings. They were immediately declared fake, and that was the end of it.
Image of a rider on a stone from Ica.
Of course, the question of the authenticity of Ica stones is still the main one. The surface of any stone undergoes oxidation over time, this also applies to grooves applied to the stone. It turns out that if the drawings on the stones were applied for a very long time, then their grooves should also be covered with patina (a film of natural oxides). In 1967, Cabrera sent 33 stones for examination to the Mauricio Hochschild Mining Company, whose geologists confirmed that the lines of the drawings were covered with patina. Thus, there can be no question of some kind of modern counterfeit.
We, of course, are primarily interested in the images of dinosaurs on the Ica stones. You can see a lot of ancient lizards on the stones. Quite often, diplodocus, brachiosaurs, iguanodons, stegosaurs, pterosaurs, allosaurs and tyrannosaurs were depicted. And once scientists were lucky enough to see a stone on which a man was depicted riding a lizard!
Interestingly, dinosaurs are quite recognizable in the drawings. In the 1970s, scientists who claimed the Ica stones were fake pointed to the fact that the diplodocus, a well-studied dinosaur species, was misrepresented. A diplodocus on a stone was depicted with dorsal plates, which, according to scientists, this lizard never had. However, in 1992, American paleontologists discovered the remains of a diplodocus with back plates! What an argument in favor of the authenticity of the Ica stones and in favor of the fact that humans and dinosaurs once lived in the neighborhood!