A baby dragon, or a bad joke?

Electronic Telegraph ^ | 24/01/2004 | Roger Highfield, Science Editor

[RightWingAtheist]

Any certified dragon embryologist can tell you that the look of the whole thing is just wrong; the entire thing has adult proportions, and it certainly wouldn't be as well formed. A "genuine" dragon embryo would look like this novelty dinosaur embryo-in-jar (just 55.00 plus shipping and handling :-):

[ravingnutter]

Are you scientist yourself? It sounds like your job is a great big Far Side cartoon.

Nah...I work in administration. I'm the only one with common sense, the one they call when they go into panic mode over the littlest problem. My daddy used to call them educated idiots, for the most part, I have to agree. It does seem like a zoo here sometimes!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It kind of reminds me of the old ALFRED HITCHCOCK tv series. The one about the "unknown" thing in a jar at a carnival.

A hick buys it for his wife who tears it apart to show it's just a fake.
The hick then shows it to the neighbours and a small girl spots writing on a part of the "thing". She spells out THEEDY SUE HILL when her mother grabs her and gets her away from the jar as they realize the "thing" is now composed of parts of the wife"s head. End of show.

Dang! It has been 46 years since I've seen that episode!

[RightWingAtheist]

The episode is entitled 'The Jar' and it is based on a classic story by Ray Bradbury; it was also adapted again for The Ray Bradbury Theater and New Alfred Hitchcock Presents shows in the eighties. If there was ever and EC comics adaptation, I'd love to get my hands on it.

[RightWingAtheist]

Babs can breathe fire can't she

She will be able to once she completes the Diamond of Pantios:

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[SunkenCiv]

Sasquatch, a proven fake? ...Nessie? Proven fake?

Well said. Neither is proved because neither can be proved. As with a lot of anomalies and even historical events (such as the assassination of Martin Luther King), crackpots occasionally dream up or make unfounded claims of "explanation", each of which is saddled on as the Real Deal in its turn.