People living at the same time as the dinosaurs sounds for a modern man at least strange. Dinosaurs are often portrayed as having lived in a long time before man. Creationists believe that life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of God. And God created all animals and humans in one time, in this number also dinosaurs. So due to them belief dinosaurs and people could co-exist in that same time. There are many articles and movies about it, for example: "Faith and Reason; Part 1; Dinosaurs And Mankind".Sometime ago I have been in Hong Kong. The region consists of many islands. Also Kowloon Peninsula belongs to HK. According to a legend the name Kowloon stems from the nine dragons, a term which refers to eight mountains and a Chinese emperor: Kowloon Peak, Tung Shan,Tate's Cairn, Temple Hill, Unicorn Ridge, Lion Rock, Beacon Hill, Crow's Nest and Emperor Bing (Song Dynasty).
But is it only the legend?
But is it only the legend?
Maybe some animals looked like legendary dragons have lived in that area in the time when also people have lived there, who could remember the animals and convey memories to descendants.
When I visited the HK's island Lantau one day I went to swim in sea. I have been on a rocky beach. The rocks were carved by water but on some rocks you could perceive something like animals footprints. On one of the rocks I noticed a footprint looked like the footprint of a giant bird. I took a photo of it and I am presenting it in the photo on the left side. In the photo on the right side for comparison I am presenting footprints of contemporary birds. Gerrie McCall in his book "Dinosaurs"described some of these animals as digitigrade, it means animals whose stand or walk on their digits or toes like birds or cats. So the footprint in the left photo could be left by a dinosaur.
OK, but what about people?
When I visited the HK's island Lantau one day I went to swim in sea. I have been on a rocky beach. The rocks were carved by water but on some rocks you could perceive something like animals footprints. On one of the rocks I noticed a footprint looked like the footprint of a giant bird. I took a photo of it and I am presenting it in the photo on the left side. In the photo on the right side for comparison I am presenting footprints of contemporary birds. Gerrie McCall in his book "Dinosaurs"described some of these animals as digitigrade, it means animals whose stand or walk on their digits or toes like birds or cats. So the footprint in the left photo could be left by a dinosaur.
OK, but what about people?
Not far away from the first rock with the footprint of the giant bird or the dinosaur I have found a footprint looked like a human's footprint. In the top photo I am showing the rock with the footprint and in the bottom photo I am presenting the footprint with my shoe for comparison. As you can see a size of the footprint and mu shoe is similar. The footprint is tapered in a heel direction. It looks like a trace of a shoe on the wedge, like buskin or wedge boot. In ancient time buskins were used by actors in Greece and also by hunters and soldiers in Ancient Greek, Etruscan, and Roman societies. There were used in China also. In the old days maybe similar kind of shoes with thick soles was used in an area where there were shallow mud or water for feet protection. So that time this kind of shoes could have the most practical character not like today - mainly decorative.
If the rocks with footprints are in similar age it could point on that, that people and dinosaurs walked on HK's swamps in ancient time and met each other. So the name Kowloon - nine dragons could mean real nine dragons - dinosaurs which lived there long time ago.
It could be also that the traces what I showed in the photos above were made by water.
If the rocks with footprints are in similar age it could point on that, that people and dinosaurs walked on HK's swamps in ancient time and met each other. So the name Kowloon - nine dragons could mean real nine dragons - dinosaurs which lived there long time ago.
It could be also that the traces what I showed in the photos above were made by water.