Wouldn't be the first hoax in palentology.
I didn't think that Stegos ranged in SE Asia back in the day. Really weird.
1. There are not any record in this period either here or in adjacent areas for such a creature.
2. Extensive Khmer murals elsewhere have no such representations.
3. The creature would have had to live in the upland areas as the valley areas where heavily farmed. There are records of wild cattle, rhinos, tigers, elephants, exotic animals imported for royal amusement, etc.
4. These temples were not isolated in the jungle in their day and have been heavily looted in the past 100 years. Where are the bones?
5. Is it just coincidence that fossil dino discoveries have generated excitement in the Isan districts of Thailand?
6. It looks too "new" to fit the adjacent panels of carvings.
I think this looks a bit too hoaxy for me.
However, the American Southwest petroglyphs are very compelling.
HI!
1) It is not lighter grey that is only the lighting, checl out the second pic and you can see that the darker grey areas on the first pic are just as light.
2) It really doesnt look like a newer panel.
However, It could have been partly remade, so an existing image could have been altered, and made to look old afterwards.
More likely is that this is an authentic image of a rhinoceros or other animal. Keep in mind that no skeleton has been found of a stegosaur that is only thousands of years old.
just fer grins:
The Dinosaur Song
Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic,
Don’t ya know it’s funny how the time goes by
Seems like only yesterday we slithered out of the sea
And now we got to wear a suit and tie
For fifty-seven million years the dinosaurs ruled the land
But now they’re dead and that’s just fine you will conclude --
Now I’m not saying they weren’t real nice,
Once you finally broke the ice,
But some of them were really rude!
Oh, way out in Montana, although not very recently
Where the Stegosaurus grew and grew
Everyone knew he had hips like a bird and bony plates along his back
But he never would admit it was true
Out of his tail grew great big spikes and if you mentioned it he would likely
Whip that tail at you angrily
‘Cause even though his brain was actually only the size of a walnut
He was just as proud as you and me
Tyrannosaurus Rex had a head four feet long
And it made it tough to buy a toupee
His teeth were seven inches long,
And he had little teeny arms
And it made it hard to brush every day
Triassic period Jurassic period Cretaceous comma
Hey there Mama, where did all the dinosaurs go?
Some say a meteor hit the Earth and killed them all for what it’s worth
But then again we don’t really know
I can now explain at last, it wasn’t ice or greenhouse gas
That stopped their little hearts from a-tickin’
A caveman who had happened by
Discovered when they were deep-fried
Dinosaurs tasted just like chicken!
~Heywood Banks