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What about the almost universal depiction of dragon (dinosaur)-like creatures around the globe?
And the fact that there are substantial differences in the depictions from various cultures on traits, behaviors and abilities.
You can check Inca, Turkish, Chinese, Indonesian, Russian, European artifacts, and they will show you a dragon-like (dinosaur if you prefer, but that term didn't exist back then) on their potteries ...
Some of which are fakes, frauds, like Piltdown etc.
It's not the case of Dragons/Dinosaurs, right?
You might be interested in
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. (Hardcover) --
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Since fossils have presumably existed for millions of years, why don't we see much paleontological thought from ancient writers? Classics scholar Adrienne Mayor suggests that we can, in fact, learn much about the Greek and Roman attitudes toward fossils if we turn to a surprising source of data and theory: their myths. In The First Fossil Hunters, she explores likely connections between the rich fossil beds around the Mediterranean and tales of griffins and giants originating in the classical world. Striking similarities exist between the Protoceratops skeletons of the Gobi Desert and the legends of the gold-hoarding griffin told by nomadic people of the region, and the fossilized remains of giant Miocene mammals could be taken for the heroes and monsters of earlier times. Mayor makes her case well, but, as with all interpretive science, the arguments are inconclusive. Still, her novel reading of ancient myth--and her critique of the modern scientific mythology that seeks to explain the lack of classical paleontological thinking--is compelling and thought-provoking.
Then you can ask yourself which is more likely - that dragons existed, or that early people came upon the
fossil skeletons of dinosaurs and made up myths to explain them.
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