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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 really makes sense. Another one is that when they uncovered skulls of ancient mastodons, they though they were the skulls of Cyclops, because the trunk is located over a giant nasal/sinus opening in the skull, that they assumed was a single eye socket. If you had never seen, or even heard of, a creature with a trunk, a Cyclops would be the obvious assumption.
I’ve always thought the same thing
A man of culture, I see
I agree, it seems most folk don't like to talk about the difference between a dragon and a wyvern
Complicated topic, but according to the nerdy Eurocentric definition:
Dragon = 4 limbs + 2 wings (6 total)
Wyvern = 2 legs + 2 wings (4 total)
Wyrm = 0 limbs/wings (Still very large, like the Tremors creatures or Sand Worms)
Technically "dragons" could have anywhere from 0 to hundreds or thousands of limbs/wings, and may or may not have the ability to fly/breathe fire/speak/possess magic/etc. depending on location, culture, and point in time.
Dragonriders of Pern?
More like Wyvernriders. Eat shit, Anne McCaffrey.
What if a dragon lost his front limbs in a fight or had a birth defect? Wouldn't it be ableist of you to call it a Wyvern? They would be very upset to be called one. :(
Wyrms could have any number of legs. Or just be the 4+2 combination because wyrm used to just mean dragon.
eastern dragons dont need wings, they are more serpent like.
Not all dragons are wyverns, but all wyverns are dragons (depending on canonical setting, but this is true for historical myth)
Done, conversation over, and too many ignorant nerds had this conversation in the Skyrim days while vomiting out the Monster Hunter definition like it speaks for anything but Monster Hunter.
I dont care I hunt them both with my gunlance
Dinosaurs skeletons were thought to have come from dragons until the 1800s
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.
Top is slop.
Bot is submissive, and also slop.
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Tiny wings~
1st thing I thought of was Dragon Tales lol
Is the conspiracy theory that the giant wings were eaten, and that an ancient society ate dragon wings like we eat Buffalo wings and that's why there's only tiny arms?
I was on the fence because of the missing wings. But, now? Now, I believe.
Who could resist delicious, battered, deep-fried dragon wings? Not I!
other way around. they liked giant thigh, bred the t rexes so their cheeks clap when they walk
Skeletons got a femur in his arm.
alright... lets talk
Why aren't they called flynosaurs?
Cuz they died
noflysaurs
Flynomores
so this is how i find out
The reason I'm not ready for this conversation because I"ve heard too many Young Earth Creationists say "There are dragons in da bible, and dinosaurs kinda look like dragons! Therefore, Dinosarus didn't die by meteor they died in da flood!"
That’s a wyvern, not a dragon! Fake and gay! FAKE AND GAY!
So you’re saying dragons are just big chickens?
Behold! A man.
Massive, fire-breathing chickens, but yeah.
Do you think the thigh and breast muscles would be tough and gamey, or do you think it would scale similarly as chicken to turkey?
There's probably a timeline where T-Rex was hunted to extinction like the Mammoth, or was domesticated for food like cattle, pigs, and other modern dinosaurs.
Whose domesticating T-Rexes? That seems like a short career.
Johnny Rex
T-Rex flying around with those tiny arms/wings
It's kinda like a hummingbird. Those shits flapped at 500bpm. Talk about terrifying huh?
The T Rex skelly looks like it's pondering or shooting some anime pose
Dragon legends predate Colombus.
And are also common to hundreds of separate cultures from around the world