recently. So the question is what, I wonder, did the ancient artist use as a model that enabled him
to accurately depict such a convincing looking Saurapod?
Moving along, there is every indication hat such a plesiosaur-like creature may have once
inhabited an area in Queensland, Australia and been known to the local Aborigines.
Both aboriginal peoples around the Lake Galilee area and other tribes located farther to the
north tell stories of a long-necked animal with a large body and flippers. The Elders of the Kuku
Yalanji aboriginal tribe of North Queensland, Australia, apparently have stories of a creature
called a ‘Yarru,’ which they say once dwelt in rain forest water holes. There is actually a cave
painting that depicts a creature with features that are strikingly similar to a plesiosaur. The
unique X-Ray art of the Australian Aboriginals is also applied to the painting quite accurately and
depicts the animal’s intestinal tract, possibly indicating that these creatures may have once even
have been hunted for food (fig.108)
. An urn from Caria, in Asia Minor (Turkey), estimated to be from 530 BC, depicts what appears
to be a Mosasaurus along with several other well known sea creatures (fig.109). The animal
behind the dinosaur is a seal, while an octopus is below it along with what appears to be a
dolphin. The thick jaws, big teeth, large eyes, and positioning of the fins on the creature in the
painting match a Mosasaurus skeleton very closely. There were some slight variations in the
species and some Mosasaurus were indeed known to have a narrow crest located behind the eye
that may well have had a fin attached to it as depicted on the Carian urn.
Fig.108 Fig.109
Numerous pieces of art depicting long-tailed, long-necked creatures with a head crest were
produced by the ancient Sumatrans. Some of these animals strongly resemble the Hadrosaur. One
picture depicts a creature which is being hunted by ancient people that bears a striking
resemblance to a Corythosaurus (fig.110).
Fig.110Next we find a tomb in Carlisle Cathedral in the U.K. where Richard Bell, the Bishop of
Carlisle was buried in 1496. The tomb is inlaid with brass, depicting various types of animals in
decorative engravings upon it. Although the tomb is worn by the innumerable feet that have
walked across it since the Middle Ages, one particular engraving is quite is unmistakably a