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Dinosaur/dinosaur fossil (pre-colonized version)

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Conservative religious groups have offered various theories to explain why no dinosaurs have ever been found in a biblical epic, such as that they are hiding behind trees, or that dinosaurs are anatomically incapable of wearing sandals. There are also few dinosaurs in Soviet cinema, where they were declared by a committee in 1929 to be irrelevant to the struggle of the proletariat, and Stalin himself declared that the idea of a powerful monster terrorising millions of ordinary people was just silly.

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Conservative religious groups have offered various theories to explain why no dinosaurs have ever been found in a biblical epic, such as that they are hiding behind trees, or that dinosaurs are anatomically incapable of wearing sandals. There are also few dinosaurs in Soviet cinema, where they were declared by a committee in 1929 to be irrelevant to the struggle of the proletariat, and Stalin himself declared that the idea of a powerful monster terrorising millions of ordinary people was just silly. Early computer-animated dinosaurs stuggled to compete with large fake-looking hinged models in the 1970s (30 million years ago) because of the crude graphics involved in the arcade games they were based on, but this all changed with the release of Cretacious Creek (1981), Swampstalker (1983) and Fluffy Bunnies vs the Creature from the Pit (1989) which were hugely successful on the video rental circuit. CGI also improved on unconvincing trees. It is an interesting footnote that Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle author of The Lost World (1912) which contains the earliest account of dinnosaurs, was fooled by the so called "Cottingly Dinosaur" photographs, which were faked by two children in 1923 to show dinosaurs playing croquet at the bottom of their garden.