Dragons

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Unironically, Cockatrice for best dragon

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>>2700167
Kukulkan is my most favourite dragon.

Did the concept of dragons just come from dinosaur bones anons? Forgive my ignorance but it pretty weird that they are in so many cultures that never met throughout history and dinosaurs are the only explanation I can think of where they got this common idea... apart from Dragons being real of course...

>>2700458
Western dragons and asian dragons look very different from each other.

>>2700458
The first discovery of dinosaur remains definitely occurred before the time that humans began recording history. The matter of what qualifies as being the first discovery of dinosaur remains is more a matter of terminology, such as when the fossilized remains that were being found were actually considered to be those of dinosaurs. The first humans to inhabit the earth undoubtedly found the remains of dinosaurs, and ancient cave renderings that have been found throughout the world verify this. These early accounts of humans possessing knowledge of the existence of the dinosaurs have caused many to speculate that some survivors of the mass extinction 65 million years ago actually shared the planet with early man, but there is no solid proof of this. Although the first person to find dinosaur remains did so thousands of years ago, it wasn't until the 1800's that scientists actually put a name on the creatures whose fossilized remains they were finding, the creatures were from then on referred to as the dinosaurs.
The first written accounts of dinosaur remains having been found date back to the time of the ancient Greeks, who tried to explain the fossilized remains by creating epic tales of giants and mythical creatures. Chinese writings by Chang Qu that described the discovery of dragon bones 2,000 years ago also point to the discovery of fossil remains. There is no doubt that these early findings mystified those who found them, and given the curiosity of the human mind these relics begged for an explanation. Literature and beliefs regarding the origins of life on earth were altered by the discovery of fossils before they were even identified as being that of dinosaurs. Mythology and superstition was built around these enormous and strange looking bones, and from those findings there soon came stories about giants and dragons that once inhabited the earth.

got this from an article

>believing the dragon coincidence meme

people just took a bunch of chimeric creatures loosely inspired on reptiles and a few fish and put them under the same umbrella

what idiot thinks that the asian and european dragons are similar. they're reptiles, that's it.

Chinese dragon were more like gods iirc

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>>2703771

>>2702032
>>2700526
I reckon it is genetic memory of giant reptilian beings that used to rule earth passed on by our mammalian ancestors. But what the fuck do I know, I am probably wrong, but just as probably right.

>>2703794
this

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>>2700304
>Cockatrice
>dragon

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>>2700304
It bears the head of a cock!