Medieval artists saw extinct reptiles: more evidence

TUESDAY, JANUARY 01, 2019

In Creation 41 (1): 12-15, January 2019

Seven years after it was first published, Vance Nelson’s 2011 book Dire Dragons still contains the highest quality examples of ancient artistic depictions of dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles. New images included in the 2018 revision add an unforeseen argument for the coexistence of extinct reptiles and man.

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