why are there no dragons any more?

[emmelinemay]

Did the dinosaurs REALLY die when a giant comet hit the earth? NO! That's a story told by people who don't trust god.

And dragons were renamed dinosaurs in 1841.

I went to school with a girl that really believed that.

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[mark13.livejournal.com]

I've always been rather curious about the dragons/dinosaurs thing - logic says there's likely to be some sort of link between one big scaly lizard and another.
I've always wondered if dragons came about partly because ancient people discovered dinosaur bones, theorised what a live one of these creatures would look like, and assumed that if there were bones around, maybe there were living versions of the creatures around in parts of the world as yet unexplored - hence 'Here Be Dragons'.

[unclesatan.livejournal.com]

I saw this great documentary on Mythical creatures linking them to fossil finds in the Classical world.

It's amazing how the image of a griffin fits with the bones of a Proto-triceritops.

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

Like finding an elephant skull, and then presuming it must have belonged to a one-eyed giant, say, like a cyclops?

Nah, that'd never happen...

[mark13.livejournal.com]

Or of course sailors mistaking seals and similar swimming things for desirable young ladies beckoning them onto rocks.

Although that says as much about sailors willingness to shag anything with a pulse after months at sea as it does for folklore.