Soldiers circling a pterodactyl-like creature
Civil War troops gathered around what seems to be a pterodactyl, despite the fact that dinosaurs were supposed to be extinct long before humans arrived. What if we’ve been incorrect all along?
Pterodactyls were supposedly extinct by the time of the Civil War. But it’s much too unusual to be a hoax, and others speculate that the picture has been altered over time. Most of the bird species that existed before our ancestors’ time have long ago vanished.