Where do you think ideas about “dragons” came from?
“ideas about “dragons” came from?” Yes...
Dragons, Basilisks, Griffons, and other mythical monsters of all kinds found in literature from the Middle Ages and before-maybe even the Thunderbird (no-not the car)-plenty of people found fossilized bones of these “monsters” on construction sites, etc just like we do-they just didn’t know where they came from or a way to date them-so they made a supposition based on what they saw and wrote about it-there are written accounts/stories from as long ago as ancient Greece-and no doubt others we just haven’t found yet.
People didn’t have facts, so they made assumptions-primitive people still do it-check out “cargo cults” and a few other myths espoused by tribal societies who do not really interact with the outside world...