Comments on: Stegosaur in Cambodia?

by: selahsagacious

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:40:43 +0000

Ancient people were aware of dinosaurs. they found out about them the same way we do - by finding fossils and imprints! The chinese have been finding dinosaur fossils for hundreds of years. They were called “dragon bones”. They were boiled in soup and ground into powder for longevity. The chinese word for dinosaur is “terrible dragon”. In the americas natives saw imprints of pteradactles and other fossils and of course thier imaginations were peaked just as much as ours is. Most of the pictures I’ve seen are completly unconvincing including this “steg”. It frankly could be anything. The strange monkey creature under the “steg” could it be a real humanoid monster? I’m sure someone w/ a fancifull enough imagination will make that claim. There are many ancient depictions of unicorns from all over the world. Why not believe in them too? Its not very rational to learn paleantology from a Flintstones cartoon.
For all you creationist- if you want to blow evolution out of the water simply show a rabbit bone in jurassic strata. Find a rat tooth next to T-Rex fossil, find a horse bone next to triceratops fossil. Do that and Darwin is byebye. ~~Ain’t gonna happen…

by: Crazyharp81602

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:27:06 +0000

Good point.

A few months ago I made an article on my blog about the alleged carving and how, in comparison to the latest discoveries and studies of the dinosaur, it is not what some people assume it is.

You can find it right here. Check it out.

The Stegosaurus Carving That Isn’t

by: watercrest

Sun, 13 May 2007 06:59:38 +0000

The Cambodian people and tourists through curiosity tend to touch and rub on the statues or stone carvings along the countless wall murals of these temples. After successive touching and rubbing over time some of these stone carvings become smooth devoid of any moss or dirt. This may explain why this image of the “stegosaurus” appear to be of a different shade.

by: kelpie

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:47:16 +0000

It really doesn’t matter what you believe in, it appears the historical references to dinosaurs or dragons speak for themselves. There are just too many global accounts of human/dino encounters to be stuck in prideful mire. From Egypt to Ecuador, China to Scandinavia, Canada to Australia…aboriginal peoples lay claim to animals that they would have known nothing about simply by fossil record. If one labels another as a creationist simply because it’s easier that way, then we have learned nothing from history, and will refuse to accept any possibilities otherwise.

by: Xaane

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:29:52 +0000

There’s a problem with the assumption that the “Stegosaur” is actually a Rhino.

Rhinoceros do not have large dinosaur-like tails. My 7 year olds instantly identified this as a Stegosaurus, not as a Rhino. It is a dinosaur depicted, the only real question is whether it is a hoax.

by: sschaper

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:22:01 +0000

There are physical processes on the molecular and atomic level such as racimization that prevent soft tissue from being preserved for 70 plus million years. A few thousand years appears to be the upper limit. This is why deriving DNA from amber-preserved mosquitoes isn’t going to work for Cenozoic Park unless the time scale is systematically off.

by: pentatonika

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:27:29 +0000

Let us consider the locations of the stegosaurus fossils which have been found. A stegosaurus fossil has been found recently in Portugal. Until then, they have only been found in the United States. The find in Portugal is believed to be evidence of a continental drift between Europe and North America.

If the Twelfth Century Cambodians knew about stegosauruses, that leaves two possibilities: either none of the stegosauruses in Cambodia have been disinterred, or the Cambodians traveled widely for their time.

by: CryptoInformant

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:47:37 +0000

Evolution=BULLCRAP? Gimme a break! Saying it is “impossible” for the tissue to have survived is like saying that it is impossible for similar animals to have evolved from different lines of descent. The baleen whale has been invented at least three times now! Oh, oops, I just personally blew YET ANOTHER creationist theory out of the water! But, of course, this will not be the last we hear of it, or any other “zombie theories”. No matter how dead the creation theory is, it just can’t stop coming back to suck your brains out.

maybe a bit harsh, but only a little.

by: Noir

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:11:55 +0000

From an artist’s perspective….if you look at the rest of the carvings on the panel they are very stylized. Judging by the guy at the bottom and the way his hair is done, then going back to look at the carving of the supposed stegosaur, I would say it’s actually a canine with a raised ridge of fur as if it’s angry. It has pointed ears and it’s head is down like a jackal or wolf on the defense. As lovely as it is to think a stegosaur or any dinosaur may have survived into modern times, I don’t think this is representative of that.

by: shumway10973

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:15:15 +0000

that is the same thing as in the book of Job, in the Bible, God talks to Job about the Behemoth and Leviathon without having to really go into detail and in fact it sound like God is just pointing over there some where at an actual creature. There is an interesting book I found at a christian bookstore I worked at talking about documented encounters between men and dino (like?) creatures, some of them up to WWII.