Monday, March 16, 2009

Cambodian Stegasauruses

This past weekend a visitor at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia noticed an intricate carving on the temples wall. We've all heard the stories about how the dinosaurs all died millions of years ago because of a climate change or meteorite or my favorite theory, they all died in an "Every Dino for Themselves Brawl" or "EDTB". Some people seem to think that small populations of dinosaurs made it through the "Dino Doomsday", surviving in isolated deep forests. The carving in question here seems to be depicting the Stegosaurus, who is best known for having a platy back, spiky tail and being a vegetarian. The temple was built by the Khmer civilization which was around from about 800 AD to 1400 AD. Conventional science says that the species died out around 155 million years ago, and was mostly kicking it pretty hard in North America. So here's the thing, people now are wondering if these dudes were around during the Khmer civilization reign. Who knows, I mean here's a picture I just drew of a Stegosaurus on a skateboard, that doesn't mean that there are a bunch of Skateboarding Stegosauruses outside, I mean there are, but not because I drew it. Here are the pictures:


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