I agree, it seems most folk don’t like to talk about the difference between a dragon and a wyvern
I dont care I hunt them both with my gunlance
It’s a serious conversation that’s been had amongst historians, anthropologists, archeologists and, of course, paleontologists. It’s entirely possible that the dragon myth comes from ancient civilizations uncovering dinosaurs like the T-Rex and imagining what they believe it looked like when alive. They had no concept that it had been dead for 300 million years and didn’t exist alongside humans.
It really makes sense. Another one is that when they uncovered skulls of ancient mastodons, they though they were the skulls of Cyclops, because the trunk is located over a giant nasal/sinus opening in the skull, that they assumed was a single eye socket. If you had never seen, or even heard of, a creature with a trunk, a Cyclops would be the obvious assumption.
I’ve always thought the same thing
A man of culture, I see
It is weird for them to guess it was a reptile of some kind though. How would they know that? By comparing to other contemporary reptile skeletons? That seems very advanced.
That has always struck me as odd. And humans and dinosaurs have never existed at the same time so it’s not a question of old legends filtering down.
Yes I know birds are technically dinosaurs please don’t comment to correct me on that.
Dinosaurs skeletons were thought to have come from dragons until the 1800s
Why would anyone in 1600 think it was a reptile and not a large mammal?
People “knew” about dinosaurs and giants (for the less obviously-lizardy bones) for thousands of years. A lot of them were not very far from the surface.
The idea of Dinosauria has only been around like three hundred years, so you can see why myths prevail. Personally I think Pterosaurs are much more fascinating than any fictional Dragons, but this post is about dinosaurs.
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Is the conspiracy theory that the giant wings were eaten, and that an ancient society ate dragon wings like we eat Buffalo wings and that’s why there’s only tiny arms?
I was on the fence because of the missing wings. But, now? Now, I believe.
Who could resist delicious, battered, deep-fried dragon wings? Not I!
other way around. they liked giant thigh, bred the t rexes so their cheeks clap when they walk
alright… lets talk
Why aren’t they called flynosaurs?
Cuz they died
so this is how i find out
Those are the P-Terrydactyls
Tiny wings~
1st thing I thought of was Dragon Tales lol
T-Rex flying around with those tiny arms/wings
It’s kinda like a hummingbird. Those shits flapped at 500bpm. Talk about terrifying huh?
Exactly, if you can do a pull-up you can’t fly
So you’re saying dragons are just big chickens?
Behold! A man.
Massive, fire-breathing chickens, but yeah.
Dragon legends predate Colombus.
And are also common to hundreds of separate cultures from around the world
i think lots of those “dragons” are so vastly different, that giving them an umbrella term is nothing but an exercise in categorisation. similar how every culture has demons and gods, even though they are so vastly different.
Yup just more cultural hyperdiffusion to make simple concepts like ‘person with wing stick figure’ or ‘big scary lizard’ seem like they’re only from one source.
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Occam’s Razor, we have to accept the simplest solution with no evidence to the contrary. Dragons are real
That’s a wyvern, not a dragon! Fake and gay! FAKE AND GAY!
creationists would agree with you
just started watching forrest valkai’s latest video about this exact subject
https://youtu.be/jdRgXj522a4Welcome back to Reacteria!
If Erica had been there it would’ve been an 8 hour video, and I would’ve still watched the whole thing.
I think it’s true. Much more likely his comical stubby arms were actually bone structure for majestic wings.
Wings still have bone structure.
stubby
majestic
Choose one.
They’re intended to be opposites. People make fun of tyrannosaurus Rex for having short stubby arms. But they wouldn’t make fun of him if they found out he was actually a dragon with majestic wings.
The problem is, wings require large bones to be bolted onto.
what if they were made of cartilage
Technically insects don’t use wings supported by bones or cartilage, but physics works differently at their size anyway. There are flying fish and apparently also gliding lizards, namely Draco lizards, and gliding geckos and frogs — but afaik none of these can do sustained flight.
Then they wouldn’t have the rigidity necessary for flight
