“…Being land animals, dinosaurs (or dragons of the land) were created on Day Six (Genesis 1:24–31), went aboard Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6:20), and then came off the Ark into the post-Flood world (Genesis 8:16–19).

It makes sense that many cultures would have seen these creatures from time to time before they died out….”

Answers in Genesis

Mystery solved, Fuck you Science.