SO how come dragons are in all world's folklore? >inb4

SO how come this canned topic with the same image gets constantly reposted?

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>>18514131
Because it's paranormal.

>>18514124
our brains are all the same. we tend to imagine the same things

>>18514147
Not at all, the mythical creatures in different folklore wildly differ. But dragons are always a constant, every single culture has them.

>>18514152
and? most cultures believe in the same shit with differences depending on the region and time. in the same way we developed language, math, etc independently. several times.
our brains are limited machines with limited solutions for the same things

>>18514164
so you're just shitposting. later

>>18514160
>most cultures believe in the same shit with differences

But they don't. Did you read what i just said? Many creatures wildly differ, not just a mere difference because of geography and time.

>>18514168
>>18514160 is right, you can find a lot of similitudes between mythologies from different cultures that could have never communicate, it's the collective unconscious

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>>18514124

Because there were dinosaur bones everywhere :D

>>18514176
Not really.

>>18514179
Hey Mange, avatars are spamming of similar images

>>18514168
it's either
a) your brain looking for a pattern where it isn't
b) the locals getting inspiration from the wildly different geography, weather and wildlife all over the world
most likely both.
>>18514183
'not really' isn't an argument anon.

>>18514124
*back to the past*
>wandering through the rice fields or whatever in Asia
>See a big ass snake
>wtf, this little fucker has no legs
>see frogspawn in various stages of growth
>torch.scroll
>perhaps the legless lizard is like a tadpole for a much bigger lizard...
>that would be quite a big lizard...
>discover that these things live all over the world
>hear stories of flying snakes from southeast Asia
>flashback to imagining giant snakes with legs because of tadpoles
>now imagine them with wings, because how else will they fly
>Dragon.sculpture

>>18514124
my theory is that your mother learned how to travel through time and space

>>18514214
quetzalcoatl by example, has feathers cause snakes of the region get a feathery texture when they rip their old skin against branches and rocks

>>18514241
>quetzalcoatl by example, has feathers cause snakes of the region get a feathery texture when they rip their old skin against branches and rocks

You have a source for this bizarre claim that snakes in Central America have this weird feature -- all snakes shed their skins, the locals were probably keen observers of nature. That they decided shedding snakes had feathers is insane.

>>18514274
it happens when a snake grows really fast. their skin it's to tight to just peel off. anyway, the feathered snake it's a metaphor. the snake represents the body and its limitations and the feathers its divine nature

Dinosaurs never existed. It's a hollywood lie. I think the dragons refer either to the snake of the zodiac or some other kind of astrological event

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>>18514337
sounds reasonable to me

because i used to do my job better.
or whatever.

>>18514124
Humans have alot of fears naturally, snakes, things bigger then us, things that lurk in the dark that can kill us. It originates from the ancient humans and the species we evolved from who were constantly killed by these creatures or things like them.

That was worded artistically. But dragon is just a creature thrown together from humanities fears, fears most human cultures shared. The unique creatures come from events or fears independent to the tribes or regions.

I would be excited if someone had any sources (books videos etc) on dragons or flying serpents etc. I have yet to find any myself, and would be happy if anyone had anything to share

>>18514147
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>>18514214
>>18514451

Its incorrect to assume that dragon myths were just a common idea as there are a few cultures that never developed dragons.

Its also incorrect to assume that dino bones lead to dragon myths as mainstream anthropologists believe ancient people did not realize dino bones were animal bones at all.

The current belief of anthropologists is that ancient people like the greeks simply believed the fossilized dino bones were a type of way stones in the Earth formed over time.

I'm not saying anthropologists are correct, but thats the current belief.

This belief is backed up by the fact that we have almost zero evidence of ancient people KEEPING the fossils they discovered.

You would think these "dragon bones" would be a big deal but instead they were apparently thrown away.

None in Tut's tomb, none in any archeology sites we have uncovered aside from some megalodon teeth uncovered in South America that were collected by native americans there.

This is literally the only account of ancient people recognizing fossils of large creatures as important at all.

What is more interesting and more confusing is that we do have accounts of ancient people realizing that small fossils were in fact evidence of living creatures.

Although paleontology became established around 1800, earlier thinkers had noticed aspects of the fossil record. The ancient Greek philosopher Xenophanes (570–480 BC) concluded from fossil sea shells that some areas of land were once under water.[96] During the Middle Ages the Persian naturalist Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna in Europe, discussed fossils and proposed a theory of petrifying fluids on which Albert of Saxony elaborated in the 14th century.[97] The Chinese naturalist Shen Kuo (1031–1095) proposed a theory of climate change based on the presence of petrified bamboo in regions that in his time were too dry for bamboo.[98]

>>18514705
>>18514705

Basically nobody has the answer for dragon myths but it certainly IS NOT dino bones and it almost certainly IS NOT 'human psychology'.

Just sayin', we have mostly ruled those out through archeology and ethno-psychology.

>>18514709
But my question is were did the dragons go?

Many story's say they were hunted to extinction like many other creatures. I would be happy to find anything on them maybe one day a live one?

>>18514728

The 'hunted out' idea is also hard to deal with as like I said - archeologists and historians have never found a single scale, tooth, bone, claw, etc.

Why would all these people never keep 1 body part from 1 dragon?

There are really 2 likely options if you just think about it from a logical point.

The only way for dragons to exist and there be NO evidence in museums?

Massive conspiracy to collect and hide dragon evidence.

The other possibility? Dragons were a type of spirit, like an angel, demon, tengu, yokai, devil, djinn, etc. Meaning metaphysical.

That would explain their intelligence, their flying, their god'like traits, their 'global' presence and more.

Metaphysical creatures dont leave remains and obviously they dont 'exist' in a conventional manner.

Both of these concepts are a stretch and difficult to accept given the circumstances but there really isnt much else on the table.

If the whole world says they saw something then it was there, somehow. Its either still there or being hidden.

So if you look at dragons the way you look at Zeus and Merlin - its less difficult to explain.

Its not perfect though...obviously...but I've yet to hear a better explanation!

genetic memories of dinosaurs from our pre-hominid days

>>18514758
Completely agree good points. Dragons were seen as a powerful and could give another power. so maybe a group took the body's because it would give them power? The spirit idea is good to many beings are extra dimensional.

>>18514124
>inb4 the ancients

reptiles could have been much more diverse back in ~Jurassic times especially since a lot of creatures back then we know of didn't just die because of old age, they just had to keep eating.

its a shame to think some people will automatically conclude from what little they know life stopped while we are life after said event.

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>>18514124
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>>18514758

They are crocodiles and alligators.

Most people never saw them but the stories reached them and the animals were mythologized.

>>18515696
Nice try

Eskimos have none in their folklore

For chinese we found animals that look almost identical.

>>18515785
Forget to mention: they are very small ~handsize.

most religions have the sun of a major deity come to earth, be killed and resurrected. It's because culture is inbred as fuck.

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>>18514705
They probably used the fossils in rituals, made into powder for potions and such, or just broke them from carrying them from place to place, or because they were afraid of them, so they treated them like haunted objects.

>>18515822
*son, I'm stoopid

>>18515696

Yep, nope. Doesnt seem likely at all given that croc and gator bones arent ritualized or immortalized at all by ancient civs.

In fact, some ancient civs totally acknowledged gators/crocs and appreciated them but even cultures that lived near them had dragons.

You think a Nile Croc was never witnessed by a Roman or a Greek?

On top of that these were advanced societies with political systems, minted coins, amazing architecture - they werent stupid.

Check this out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek

Ancient people were not unfamiliar with crocs.

Also, the 1 account of ancient people mistaking 'dino bones' for 'dragon bones' comes from China from the writings of Chang Qu that described the discovery of dragon bones 2,000 years ago.

The bones were not recovered, they were never tested or proven to be dino remains, so all we really have is a person claiming to find dragon bones.

>>18515823

This would make sense if we had some old spells that used dragon bone powder.

We dont - I've got lots of occult books with recipes.

We dont have medieval treasure hordes with any such powder and we dont have Pliny talking about haunted giant bones.

There is nothing to suggest your theory is likely in historical documentation dude.

>>18514124
The Cockatrice and the Basilisk were usually depicted as birds with reptilian features.
The Bunyip has been described as many things, but often as a mammal.
Quetzalcoatl was represented as a feathered snake.
The Hydra was described as a multiple-headed serpent.
Leviathan was described as giant fish/whale.
The sea serpents are, yeah, serpents.

So, where are these dragons you're talking about?

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>>18515896
Not all fossils look like dragon bones, they could have called them anything, besides this kind of things usually happen very far away from someone keeping proper record.

>>18514124
>inb4 the ancients were idiots that mistook dinosaur bones with dragons

>>18514851
Woah, what if we're the dragons senpai.

>>18515928

Sure but we dont have SOME dragon bones we have zero. In fact we only have 1 significant account of someone CLAIMING to find dragon bones.

Meanwhile we have solid records of fossils from mollusks and invertebrates even bamboo fossils were recorded in ancient china according to documents.

Historians dont believe they had a different name for dino bones, like I said the history books right now, the archeologists right now mostly maintain that ancient people MUST have found dino bones and simply thought they were a type of style that the Earth forms rocks in...

This is the current mainstream explanation for ancient people interacting with dino bones.

Its obviously a short sighted and lacking explanation but its not for lack of trying - there arent any documents that suggest they ever found significant amounts of dino bone at all.

We know from the excavations that ancient civs committed that they definitely would have found dino bones.

So why didnt they document it at all? I mean AT ALL dude, like I said Pliny the Elder doesnt even mention them and that is a huge issue for any historian to reconcile.

Whats the logical explanation that comes to mind if we KNOW ancients would have encountered dino bones but somehow there is NO documentation or history written by ancient civs of these bones?

There arent even any cave paintings of giant bones, no stone carvings depicting the discovery of giant bones in the Earth, the bible makes no mention of these giant beasts remains, etc.

Why do you think that is, like whats the first reason that pops in your head?

We never found dinosaur bones in any ancient civilizations presence so its safe to assume they would have no information on dinosaurs.

>>18516059
Well it is weird, this people had gods and explanations for any natural event, and fossils do look weird, but they also have a lot of myths regarding beasts and strange creatures, so at least it crossed their minds.

One thing for sure, they didn't believe them to be just rocks.

>>18516075

Sure, if we only had time periods but we have there structures and evidence of their mining. Archeologists agree they MUST have encountered them.

>>18516102

And archeoligists have no evidence for that claim other then they were diggers.

The fact of the matter is they didn't, or we would find them along with all the other shit we have dug up of theirs.

>>18516075
That makes zero sense.
First of all, the existence of fossils has been acknowledged ever since Classical antiquity, it is not a leap of the imagination to suggest they had been known prior to that period. Second, some fossils (including dinosaur remains) aren't even hard to find out and recognize. So, applying logic, we can assume that in the 200,000 years of their existence, humans have likely found a great deal of dinosaur remains and have interpreted them in various ways, sometimes leading to the creation of myths and legends.
Also, fossils are often fragile and archaeological remains are often scarce and poorly conserved, especially as we go further back in time, so the chance of actually finding fossils within these remains is slim.

>>18516034
Senpai

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>>18514152
The term "dragon" is an umbrella term which describes a plethora of mythological animals. A dragon in China has antlers, lacks wings, and brings prosperity. A dragon in Europe has wings, breathes fire, and hoards treasure. They both might be reptiles, but that's like saying the Chinese fenghuang is the same thing as the thunderbird of Native American myth. There are dragons with the body of a lion, ones with the body of a serpent, ones with turtle shells. There isn't any one specific image of a dragon which is as widespread throughout all as seems to be believed.

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>>18516225
What if dragons became extinct because senpai finally noticed them?

>>18516179

>That makes zero sense.

Not assuming ancients had knowledge of something we have never found them in possession of makes no sense?

>First of all, the existence of fossils has been acknowledged ever since Classical antiquity, it is not a leap of the imagination to suggest they had been known prior to that period.

Ok, even if they did have knowledge of fossils that doesn't mean they came across dinosaur fossils.

>So, applying logic, we can assume that in the 200,000 years of their existence, humans have likely found a great deal of dinosaur remains

Lately sure, but there is no evidence of this happening thousands of years ago except "it should have been" coming from archeoligists making statements about paleontology.

>and have interpreted them in various ways, sometimes leading to the creation of myths and legends.

If ancients ran across dinosaur bones and could put enough together to get an idea of the general features they would revere the hell out of them and we would certainly find some perfectly intact bones.

>Also, fossils are often fragile and archaeological remains are often scarce and poorly conserved, especially as we go further back in time, so the chance of actually finding fossils within these remains is slim.

We dig up fragile items all the time like pottery, dolls, and readable books. And your calling into question the durability of pieces of rock as your excuse? What do you think they would turn to dust? Even if every one of the "loads of fossils we should have been discovering" were to be broken the parts should still be there.

Are you people seriously arguing about the existence of dragons?

>>18514124
>inb4 the actual factual answer, make something fun up please

Dinosaurs are a myth. The fossils are arguably all hoaxes or misinterpretations. Almost everything we know about them came out of the 19th century, even though all the tools necessary to discover and theorize about them have been available since the invention of digging. Why didn't the ancients discuss them if they were so easy to find?

>>18516770
>religious lunatic detected

>>18516770
They did discuss it
It just didn't get a chapter in any scripture

>>18514152
most countries have lizards

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>>18516641
Welcome to /x/

Dragons are a creature of the begging of time and mostly originated from a different realm therefore they originated in many folklores due to their abundance thousands of years ago

>>18514124

>rocks all over the world contain the bones of giant lizards
>mythology builds up around giant lizards

>>18514705
>>18514758
>>18515928

Joke's on you. Dragons didn't have bones. They were basically a big slug.

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>>18514124

>>18517155
5?

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Draco

>>18514124

Wh- what if... THE ANCIENTS WERE DRAGONS!?

>>18517155
Do you know by fact that 2+2 sum 4?
I assume yes

Do you know by fact the origins of a fixed point in pretty much all of the ancient worlds cultures?
Probably not, and its good to hear some theories (Filtering those that sound like complete bullshit of course)

>>18514124
what you show isnt what every one had believed was a dragon.most european depictions had been of hairy mamalian things with long necks up until more recent history

a giraffe would be thought of as a dragon by many in the middle ages in europe. long neck check, horns check, hairy check

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>>18514124
You'll find your answers in the sky

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>>18519336
This
Just look at one of the most famous European depictions of a dragon, the one killed by Saint George, almost every picture shows the thing as being only about the size of a man, and a lot of the depictions show it as being almost dog like.

>>18519449
>mfw St George killed a giraffe

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>>18519449

That would be OK except you only posted a piece of art that fits your narrative.

Here is an EARLIER artists render of the battle.

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>>18519449

Here is ANOTHER earlier painting of the act that also depicts a creature with wings and places it as much larger than any dog, having wings, a curling tail, etc.

Plus, here is the legend.

"The town had a small lake with a plague-bearing dragon living in it and poisoning the countryside. To appease the dragon, the people of Silene fed it two sheep every day. When they ran out of sheep they started feeding it their children, chosen by lottery. One time the lot fell on the king's daughter.[8] The king, in his grief, told the people they could have all his gold and silver and half of his kingdom if his daughter were spared; the people refused. The daughter was sent out to the lake, dressed as a bride, to be fed to the dragon.[7]

Saint George by chance rode past the lake. The princess tried to send him away, but he vowed to remain. The dragon emerged from the lake while they were conversing. Saint George made the Sign of the Cross and charged it on horseback, seriously wounding it with his lance. He then called to the princess to throw him her girdle, and he put it around the dragon's neck. When she did so, the dragon followed the girl like a meek beast on a leash. The princess and Saint George led the dragon back to the city of Silene, where it terrified the populace. Saint George offered to kill the dragon if they consented to become Christians and be baptised."

>>18519862
>>18519449

As the legend goes - 2 sheep per day?

A giraffe eating any sheep, ever?

A giraffe or any mammal living in a small lake? Plague-bearing?

Shrews and the platypus are the closest thing to venomous mammals and neither fit the story or any of the other dragon legends.

Although, aside from size a platypus is probably closer than a giraffe.

Plus, almost all the art depicts scales.

Ancient people definitely had zero problem with depicting the difference between fur and scales.

Nevermind the fact that this legend is MUCH older than the art we're all posting, by HUNDREDS of years.

There are much earlier depictions!

>>18515926
This

>>18520337

You're having a translation error, the original word for 'serpent' and dragon were not separated by much.

"The English word dragon and Latin word draco derives from Greek δράkων (drákōn), "dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake".[2]"

[2] Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, at Perseus project

So when you say they were described as serpents that doesnt change much.

As for feathered mattering at all it doesnt, winged, feathered, etc. We know dino's had lotsa feathers and were still large reptiles.

The bunyip has a dozen descriptions so its mostly irrelevant.

The cockatrice is a dragon with a cocks head.

The basilisk was described as the king of snakes and about 12 fingers long by Pliny.

The hydra, ya, serpent...not sure what the serpent description is a problem.

God is praised for having made all things, including Leviathan, and in Isaiah 27:1, he is called the "wriggling serpent" who will be killed at the end of time.[2]

Seems dragonly to me...serpents and dragons arent exclusive, it means giant monstrous reptile that doesnt fit living or fossil records basically.

>>18514124
>SO how come dragons are in all world's folklore?
>

Dragons are purely symbolic

>>18514124
they were probably looking at clouds

>>18519116
This

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>>18516237
Underrated post

>>18514758
"Out of the mouth of the dragon came 3 unclean spirits, like frogs. Performing miracles and going out to the leaders of the world." Rev;13:13

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>>18515926
there is a christian tradition that the serpent pre-fall had legs. and that it was the most beautiful and lived in the best places.

so perhaps dragons are snakes before their legs were removed in the before-time.

iunno man, praise kek

>>18516059
well the best explanation would be that the ancients never DID find large dino bones. why? Because paleontologists plant those suckers fake in the ground. the first records of dino bones were discovered allegedly righht after they were hypothosized.

>>18514124
Because the dinosaurs WERE dragons. Literally. Only reason dinosaurs show no signs of such is because the wings were too fragile to survive fossilization and the glands which produced fire and acid breathe and shit were organic parts.

Lizards are freaky

Giant things are freaky

Therefore, giant lizards are really goddamn freaky

>>18514241
>>18514274

Quetzalcoatl is a beloved and almost most important deity of the mexica culture, it's inspired in the animals that the mexicas used to venerate the most, the quetzal and the snake, so it's not a surprise that their god was a fusion of both animals, it's not that deep.

Ask yourself this.

What is scarier than a snake that slithers on the ground?
A snake that slithers in the air.

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>>18514124
Because "dragons" once existed. Science is an illusion that we know nearly everything and we do not. Many relics of the dinosaur age exist to the present day, it's very likely that large reptilian creatures existed well into the age of men and are part of cultural memory. Komodo dragons are common in some parts if the world even now. Dragons also represent particular mystical principles which is why its mythos carries on. I'd share it with you but x is full of swine and vipers

You can't imagine something that isn't based on something you haven't seen...
And people have seen all sorts of reptiles all over the world throughout history. They based their dragons on these animals. It's that simple.

>>18517155
Fucking lol.

>>18519449
Couldn't that painting show King George killing a cave lion? Then by word of mouth and the fact that most people wouldn't have been worldly enough to differentiate between various species of animal, lion would have become monster, monster became dragon.

>>18520314
That dick just killed someones pet dinosaur! What a dick!

>>18514758
Or we find bits and pieces of dragon bones and just put them together as dinosaurs because that's what we expect. All dino skeletons in museums are just bits and pieces with plaster bones added anyway.

>>18514124
We probably drove them to extinction. Wouldn't be the first large creature we killed off. Lack of remains is easy to explain, since the Chinese and certain African cultures believe the bones of certain things have magical properties, and in the case of the chinese, will use dinosaur fossils as ingredients in medicines.

A large, possibly fire breathing lizard is easy to be thought of as magical. Just a few cents on looking at it scientifically;

We know creatures can get pretty fucking large. Look at elephants and dinosaurs. We know that certain dinosaurs were so well adapted, that they didn't have to change much, if at all, over the millenia, crocodiles for instance.

Now, the fire breathing thing is tricky, but not impossible. I'm of the opinion that they could expel a reactive gas through burping. Or it could even be something simple as methane, and found a way to make a spark with their teeth.

Say they chewed on certain rocks, such as flint, and got it stuck in their teeth so they could spark them by snapping their jaws. A crude way of lighting a fart on fire, except from the front hole. A different gas that is naturally reactive with air seems more likely, though.

Just some thoughts on the matter.

>>18525810
10/10

collective mammalian subconscious remembers to fear the dinosaurs

the japanese made godzilla movies as symbolic of the destruction wrought by atomic bombs. the ancient legends are actually about nuclear war.

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>>18531483
Some bugs can generate chemical reactions and make distance attacks.

>>18531514
We seem to be afraid of certain animals like this, but seems far fetched.

>>18531517
Japanese have their own standar for crazy.

Abbos dealed with giant lizards and killed them, why not the rest of the world.

>>18514124
>Inb4

Look if you don't want the answer don't ask the question.

because of the ancient reptilian aliens who wandered this world in the age before they built the matrix.

>>18531483
You're on the right track in thinking about this scientifically, but a whole lot of what you said is, biologically, bullshit.

>>18531483
>Lack of remains is easy to explain, since the Chinese and certain African cultures believe the bones of certain things have magical properties, and in the case of the chinese, will use dinosaur fossils as ingredients in medicines.

fuuuuck why didn't I ever think of this

Not just for dragons, but for all strange creatures, particularly the ones in East Asia

>>18519449
>>18520325
This painting makes the "dragon" look almost identical to a Komodo Dragon. Also "plague-bearing" could be in reference to the heinous amount of bacteria found in a Komodo Dragon's mouth causing infection from bites. I could picture some tricky Christian bringing a massive Komodo Dragon to a small town and convincing them it is a dragon. After a while offer to slay the dragon if they convert to Christianity.

>>18514124
because dragons ARE dinosaurs. the ones that survived to live around humans. but they were just big lizards, not the fantasy wings and fire bull they became
until men hunted them to extinction for potions, trophies or proof of manliness

in 1000 years we will have fantasy stories about huge striped cats and mountainous elephants because those will be lost to myth as well

There are creatures that paralyze their prey with poison, electricity or even by sound. But not one animal that could produce flames. Maybe there were dragons at one time and people found out their weak spot, like shooting flaming arrow at their gas organ and watched them explode.

>>18514124
>>18514124
>Everyone used to live on Atlantis
>DNA vaguely remembers what our biologically engineered pets used to look like.
>Every "Ethnicity" on Atlantis biologically altered their own beast
>Asians made particularly long ones because lol
>Europeans made Rad fire breathers and shit
>Aztec/Inca/Mayas were like "Lol Idunno#yoloswag"
>Greeks were like "wow bill your mom lets your dragons have 7 heads?!"

>>18535722
>Maybe there were dragons at one time and people found out their weak spot, like shooting flaming arrow at their gas organ and watched them explode.

You're absolutely right. And then we have something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqF-ND2XcY

>>18515887
>You think a Nile Croc was never witnessed by a Roman or a Greek?
There are a bunch of creatures in Greco-Roman mythology called "dragons", but once you look up the descriptions and depictions they're all just serpents. I don't think there's even a winged one.

>>18515696
I'd also suggest bringing up early western depictions of elephants.

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>>18516237
>thunderbird of Native American myth
Turns out they were partially right about that one (see: argentavis magnificens). So who knows, maybe they were right about their horned serpents too.

>>18525306
That's a hard no. If we can have fossils preserved of pterosaur wings, bat wings, even insects, then any wings Dinos had should be preserved too.

Hi guys. Dragon here (or at least the closest thing to an actual dragon still extant). This shitpost is probably closer to the truth than anything: >>18519275

The basic gist of it is that dragons are refugees from a previous Kalpa. Each Kalpa everything gets crushed and destroyed, then recycled. This is scary. So dragons did a lot to escape once they realized what was happening, and some of it was bad. As a result, this world contains the remnants of dragons, who escaped either via high magick or blood magick, with this being the principle determining factor for our form here. Subsequently, other adaptations happened, and interbreeding occurred, and the remnants of the race proper basically perished. But it's shockingly easy to find draconic blood, to a degree that would bewilder you. To understand, it's enough to recognize interbreeding as having occurred in basically every culture that has dragon mythos, whether overtly recorded like with the Chinese, obliquely like with the Scythians, or implicitly like in many Slavic cultures.

I know basically fuck-all besides that because I have limited blood memory and my angel has PTSD and doesn't want to talk about it, so don't bother asking me more. It's quite probable a lot of humans know more about it than I do. If you pay attention you can find surviving remnants of our culture and knowledge in all sorts of weird places though. Dragons love throwing pearls before swine, because it's funny, in a very saturnine and sadomasochistic way. Like going back in time and catching the blood of Christ in a 7-11 Big Gulp.

Anyway, gl;hf. Your appointment with the procedural holocaust generator known as God is fast approaching.

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No.

You've clearly never been in the field or worked with fossils before. We have many articulated dinosaur skeletons, and comparative anatomy is a thing for those that are incomplete.

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