That’s a wyvern, not a dragon! Fake and gay! FAKE AND GAY!
The T Rex skelly looks like it’s pondering or shooting some anime pose
Tiny wings~
1st thing I thought of was Dragon Tales lol
I think it’s true. Much more likely his comical stubby arms were actually bone structure for majestic wings.
Wings still have bone structure.
Clearly the fossil records are incomplete.
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
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?
other way around. they liked giant thigh, bred the t rexes so their cheeks clap when they walk
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!
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.
There have been fossils discovered with their skin intack (fossilized). So maybe early people discovered the T-rex with its wings intact, but they didn’t preserve the fossi,l so proof was lost.
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.
It looks like a giant lizard skull so all they need to make the link is dead lizard skeletons to refer to?
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
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.
This image is slop.
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
The reason I’m not ready for this conversation because I"ve heard too many Young Earth Creationists say “There are dragons in da bible, and dinosaurs kinda look like dragons! Therefore, Dinosarus didn’t die by meteor they died in da flood!”
Dinosaurs skeletons were thought to have come from dragons until the 1800s
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.
So you’re saying dragons are just big chickens?
Massive, fire-breathing chickens, but yeah.
Behold! A man.
“I’d like a 20 piece dragon mcnugget with spicy cretaceous sauce please”
Do you think the thigh and breast muscles would be tough and gamey, or do you think it would scale similarly as chicken to turkey?
There’s probably a timeline where T-Rex was hunted to extinction like the Mammoth, or was domesticated for food like cattle, pigs, and other modern dinosaurs.
Whose domesticating T-Rexes? That seems like a short career.
Johnny Rex
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.
I’m explaining badly check out miniminuteman
Top is slop.
Bot is submissive, and also slop.
alright… lets talk
Why aren’t they called flynosaurs?
Those are the P-Terrydactyls
Cuz they died
so this is how i find out
noflysaurs
Flynomores
