For a long time, certain young earth creationists have perpetuated stories of relic dinosaurs still surviving in Africa and other remote parts of the world.

As evidence, they point to stories, but also to a few pieces of art, which they believe proves some human artist coexisted with a dinosaur.

Today, we're going to examine some of that evidence to see if that is indeed the only possible explanation for the art.

That's coming up today on Skeptoid.

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Today, we point our Skeptical Eye at the jungles of the dark continent and other remote hideaways throughout the world,

where tales tell that living relics from the past still walk among us, the dinosaurs.

From Mokele Benbe, the alleged sauropod of the Congo, to the Ropen, said to be a terrasaur ruling the skies of Papua New Guinea,

to the idea that pleasyosaurs are the lake monsters of Loch Ness, Ogopogo, and others.

The reports come from all over.

You'd think these stories would be on the decline, as humans spread out into the farthest reaches of our planet and explore more,

you'd expect the stories to fade as nothing is found.

However, they're actually on the rise, due to promotional efforts by the relatively new, young earth creationism movement.

Intent on proving that dinosaurs lived so recently that they coexisted with humans and may even survive today.

But all that aside, this was an episode I was pretty excited to do, because it's really fun to examine evidence of something so interesting as living dinosaurs.

But sadly, I was immediately disappointed. Dig as much as I could, I found there is no solid evidence for almost any of these animals.

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