[z3n]

I don’t see a dinosaur. I see a dragon...

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I agree.

The body in the imnage shown doesn’t look much different from any other quadraped, except perhaps for claws and a few scales. Then take a long neck and tail from the dragon myth and voila. The head even looks more like an asian style dragon’s head, not so much like a dinosaur.
Also, we don’t really know what dinosaurs looked like anyway, just what their fossilized bones look like. Most of the rest is theory and educated reconstruction.

DaVinci was visually and spacially very creative. Why does an anatomically realistic looking ‘dragon’ drawing surprise anyone?

[dblshot]

OK, but how’d he get the Starbucks cup right?

[Tammy8]

we don’t really know what dinosaurs looked like anyway, just what their fossilized bones look like. Most of the rest is theory and educated reconstruction.

The word Dinosaur had not been thought of during Da Vinci's lifetime. According to Colliers Encyclopedia 1921 "Dinosauria, a tribe or sub-order of reptiles established by Herman von Meyer in 1832, and subsequently called by him Pachypode, or Pachypoda. In 1841 Professor Owen gave them the name which they still retain, Dinosauria."

Before that were the stories/myths/legends of dragons. Any fossils or bones found before Meyer and Owen came up with their terms would likely have been believed by the people who saw them to have been from a dragon.