1. Deseret News reported two prospectors finding the carcass of a pterodactyl in the desert east of ?? Mojave?? late 1890`s-early 1900`s(?), photo included.
2. Two Native American mother and daughter whom I know reported a pterodactyl type giant bird in east Texas in late 1970`s from which they fled screaming; described it to a T.
3. Iroquois living along the Mohawk River in NY State described to the Dutch in 1640`s in 2 separate instances of a giant bird soaring down and snatching up their people and flying away.
4. Mohawk ``Talkers`` on the St. Regis Reservation Canadian side have legends of giant birds and giant monsters crushing their villages which they were unable to stop with their spears.
5. Flattened Gold nugget in museum here has figure of a mammoth or mastodon scratched into it: nugget was found in 1814 in the eastern Adirondack Mountains in a cave.
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Please post your sources, I’d like to look these up. Monsters, Mohawks....it’s hitting all of my interests.
If they are cool, and I can find them, I will post the original accounts here.
Mammoths/mastodons definitely coexisted with man. They were hunted by men and there are many drawings of them. The period of their existence was only 10s of thousands of years ago not hundreds of millions.
The problem of coexistence of men and dinosaurs is that the latter was the product of a whole set of conditions which no long existed when the former arrived. It is like finding a tv set in a primitive stone age village.