I have always wondered about that. How can we be so sure dragons are a myth? To me the dragon references were too widespread and persistent to be only a myth.
I have thought for a long time dragons were some sort of survivor dinosaurs, why do people think they could not be? There are still animals on earth that it is widely accepted lived at the time dinosaurs lived. How can we be so sure that all dinosaurs died at X time and there were no survivors?
It makes sense to me that some dinosaurs did survive to become extinct much, much later.
That’s what I think, some dinos survived mass extinction, only to become extinct when man rose up to hunt them for food..................
That’s what I think, some dinos survived mass extinction, only to become extinct when man rose up to hunt them for food..................
Komodo dragons are alive and well.
It is pretty easy for an artist who grew up with lizards in the garden and maybe a couple drinks in him to think “What if these could grow really big?”
All around the world there are lizards of every description… including huge monitor lizards which had to make some impression. And tales of these things go with traders like any other commodity, growing more fantastic each time they are told like fish stories.
And children can imagine all sorts of things in the nightmares that come with growth spurts and changing hormones.
Romans had to run across fossils as well with all the stonework in the ancient world. Some distant cousin of mine ran across bones- I think they were mastodon - and sent them as a gift to Jefferson. Lots of inspiration for artists in a stoneworking culture that depends on sedimentary rock.