I always like it when the professional crazies weigh in.

  • Murvel@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Lmfao, well yes, it’s indeed very likely that people of ancient times have found dinasour bones and assumed it to be of a since long gone mystical creature such as a dragon.

    There is nothing remotely insane about the assumption. It’s, in fact, highly probable.

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      4 months ago

      There are also a number of large lizards - komodo dragons and other variations of monitor lizards, alligators and crocodiles, pythons and other large snakes, and the various members of the iguana family - that have visual characteristics of mythologized dragons. Add in the human propensity to exaggerate and you end up with a series of increasingly dramatic artistic reinterpretations of a real animal.

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      4 months ago

      ??

      What’s insane about that assumption? People had very limited information in the past. You see this, you think giant vicious fierce carnivore. You see this or this, you think giant one-eyed human.

      And those are the skulls of hippos and elephants. What would you imagine when you see this then?