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Genesis: what about that serpent that talked to Eve... and God cursed it and got all the reptiles crawl on their bellies... Snake, Lizard, frog, Alligators.
Although evolutionary theory has dinosaurs extinct millions of years before man came on the scene, ancient writers described dangerous encounters with them. The Bible was translated into English before the word dinosaur was invented. Some fierce creatures that swallowed their prey whole as do carnivorous reptiles (Jeremiah 51:34) are translated into English as dragons in the Bible. Some commentaries in English describe the big beast behemoth as a hippopotamus or elephant. But the behemoth in Job 40:15-24 has a tail like a cedar tree. Hebrew had other words for hippos and elephants. The tannin described by ancient Egyptians and in Ezekiel 32:2,3 may actually be a plesiosaur.
The King James Bible translates “re-em” as unicorn. The Septuagint translated the Hebrew “re-em” as "Monokeros" (one-horn). Akkadian and Ugaritic records show an animal head with three horns, like a Triceratops. In “Naturalis Historia” Pliny the Elder described "an exceedingly wild beast called the Monoceros or one-horned. ...It makes a deep lowing noise, and one black horn two cubits long projects from the middle of its forehead.” It was about the length of an elephant but had shorter legs. Aelian, Oppian, and Martial described a Rinokeros that sharpened his horn on a rock and stabbed with it fighting elephants. This is the root word for the modern name rhinoceros. But rhinos do not stab with their keratin horns. Modern reports have come from the Congo of a single-horned animal Emela-ntouka or "killer of elephants." Pygmies in Cameroon identified the horned creature they call Ngoubou with a Ceratopsian dinosaur. These may be the last survivors of the ceratopsians that got off the ark. "Re-em" might be a Monoclonious , a single-horned dinosaur ceratopsian.
Psalm 92
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Job 39
9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?
10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
12 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Isaiah 34
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
Ancient authors of many lands wrote of flying reptiles that bit with venom. The ibis bird was the natural enemy of the saraph, the flying fiery serpent in ancient Egypt. The Hebrew polal participle for flying described the saraph, indicating they were highly nimble fliers difficult to escape.
Numbers 21
6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
For 40 years they faced the dangers of aerial attacks of pterosaurs.
Deuteronomy 8
15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Isaiah 14
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Isaiah 30
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
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