Scientists in the 18th-19th Century - “The stories of Dragons are all fables, no animal could be that large, and reptiles don’t fly”
Scientist in the 20th and 21st Century - “ We have discovered gigantic dinosaurs, and reptiles with large wingspans”
Religious Fanatics 21st Century: Earth is only 6,000 years old and those bones must be fakes.
That critter was very possibly alive in the 17th or 18th century.
Just look at the condition of the bone.