Tiny wings~
1st thing I thought of was Dragon Tales lol
It’s a serious conversation that’s been had amongst historians, anthropologists, archeologists and, of course, paleontologists. It’s entirely possible that the dragon myth comes from ancient civilizations uncovering dinosaurs like the T-Rex and imagining what they believe it looked like when alive. They had no concept that it had been dead for 300 million years and didn’t exist alongside humans.
It is weird for them to guess it was a reptile of some kind though. How would they know that? By comparing to other contemporary reptile skeletons? That seems very advanced.
That has always struck me as odd. And humans and dinosaurs have never existed at the same time so it’s not a question of old legends filtering down.
Yes I know birds are technically dinosaurs please don’t comment to correct me on that.
I’ve always thought the same thing
A man of culture, I see
People “knew” about dinosaurs and giants (for the less obviously-lizardy bones) for thousands of years. A lot of them were not very far from the surface.
The idea of Dinosauria has only been around like three hundred years, so you can see why myths prevail. Personally I think Pterosaurs are much more fascinating than any fictional Dragons, but this post is about dinosaurs.
This image is slop.
I agree, it seems most folk don’t like to talk about the difference between a dragon and a wyvern
I dont care I hunt them both with my gunlance
Skeletons got a femur in his arm.
alright… lets talk
Why aren’t they called flynosaurs?
Cuz they died
so this is how i find out
Those are the P-Terrydactyls
So you’re saying dragons are just big chickens?
Behold! A man.
Dragon legends predate Colombus.
And are also common to hundreds of separate cultures from around the world
i think lots of those “dragons” are so vastly different, that giving them an umbrella term is nothing but an exercise in categorisation. similar how every culture has demons and gods, even though they are so vastly different.
Yup just more cultural hyperdiffusion to make simple concepts like ‘person with wing stick figure’ or ‘big scary lizard’ seem like they’re only from one source.
I’m explaining badly check out miniminuteman
Occam’s Razor, we have to accept the simplest solution with no evidence to the contrary. Dragons are real
creationists would agree with you
just started watching forrest valkai’s latest video about this exact subject
https://youtu.be/jdRgXj522a4Welcome back to Reacteria!
If Erica had been there it would’ve been an 8 hour video, and I would’ve still watched the whole thing.
