DINOSAURS AND DRAGONS IN ANCIENT ART

I wonder how many of you might be fascinated by the amount of art depicting dragons and dinosaurs before the age of paleontology. I have always thought of an ancient world totally in the dark about the former giants that roamed the earth. There are classical writings about such things that I chalked up to pure imagination. Now I can imagine how many people may have really believed in these things, because they had reason to. Imagine the effect it would have to belong to a non scientific world (or the early scientific world that predated the middle ages) and come across the sprawling bones of some former giant beast. I guess one would have to assume people came into contact with these remains from time to time, though we seem hard up to acknowledge these encounters had any kind of significance before paleontology was established. It would interesting to see how much ancient people would care about these finds.

Did the concept of "Dragon" emerge from dinosaur bones? I think the answer is yes when talking about the European dragons. I read something about eastern dragons are said to have come from the sea.

Some art depicts dinosaurs with astonishing accuracy. If they just had bones to work with they put the image together very well. This site showed me some very cool examples. http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/ancient/ancient.htm
(creationist website, I know, but the point is in showing the art)

Probably the fault of my TLDR up there, but I had a lot of thoughts on it. After 4 days and it being the only topic with 0 replies, I felt embarrassed to make this. Then I chalked everyone up as dinosaur haters and almost asked for this topic to be removed; as Zero replies is less response then threads we find in the community dump. Man, I never considered myself that bad a poster.