Hey! It's True! It was on the internet! Pteradactyl shot 1858

Eat your heart out Matthew Brady.

what a fertile place the internet is

Maybe the Freepers are right! Man and Dinosaurs DO live together! ;)

there is no proof, I don't believe in Dinosaurs:crazy:

A freeper dino says he doesnt believe in YOU, man. Are you gonna take that?

from the 20th century. I will dig up a reference, but it's not a civil war photo that was doctored, but something IIRC for a movie or TV show.

From http://www.trueauthority.com/cryptozoology/futility.htm

Hunted Pterodactyl?

Another photograph circulating throughout cryptozoology communities was that of a seemingly shot and killed pterodactyl during during the Civil War. On numerous websites will you still find this picture, and some claim that it has yet to be negated or authenticated.

Truth is, it's a hoax. Not so much a hoax, but a simple promotional tool. The photograph was created and used by Orlando, Florida's Haxan Production to develop interest in their upcoming fictional program, Freaky Links. First broadcasted on Fox TV in 2000, the series involved the character Derek Barnes, an investigator of the unknown. The 22-foot by 11-foot pterodactyl was a prop created for the two episodes, and is now owned by Loren Coleman and is featured in his museum. (see Loren Coleman)

The Last Pterodactyl - From A Readers Digest book when I was a kid

The last of the pterodactyls -flying reptiles with leathery wings and long,
toothy beaks- died out about 100 million years ago, according to established
scientific opinion. But in the experience of a number of startled French
workmen, the last one died in the winter of 1856 in a partially completed
railway tunnel between St. Dizier and Nancy lines.

In the half-light of the tunnel, something monstrous stumbled toward them
out of a great boulder of Jurassic limestone they had just split open. It
fluttered its wings, croaked, and died at their feet.

The creature, whose wingspan was 10 feet 7 inches, had four legs joined by
a membrane, like a bat. What should have been feet were long talons, and the
mouth was arrayed with sharp teeth. The skin was like black leather, thick
and oily.

At the nearby town of Gray, the creature was immediately identified by a
local student of paleontology as a pterodactyl. The rock stratum in which
it had been found was consistent with the period when pterodactyls lived,
and the limestone boulder that had imprisoned the winged reptile for millions
of years was found to contain a cavity in the form of an exact mold of the
body of the creature.

I mean, look at this debunking of the debunking!

I'm convinced. :eyes: Maybe it's just a really, really bad picture of Roosevelt.