Few things sound as compelling as an actual Civil War photograph over 250 years old,

showing a group of soldiers posing with the corpse of a gigantic tarotor, a hundred million

years out of place.

It bears all the earmarks of proof that tarotors must have survived the extinction.

Well, fortunately, here at Skeptoid, we are not entirely without resources to track down

the origin and the truth of this famous photo.

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You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the Civil War Terrasaur.

Today we're going to dive down two different rabbit holes, curious holes because they converge.

One leads us back through American history to the Civil War of the 1860s to the time

when brother-fought brother in the war between the Union and the Confederacy.

The other hole goes to the darkest jungles of the world of cryptozoology, where wenged

reptiles soared through the skies.

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