| Tango01 | 17 Nov 2016 4:00 p.m. PST |
"Harry Potter fans are looking forward to the boy wizard's next screen adventure, when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens this month. Pottermania broke loose when J. K. Rowling's first book appeared on bookstands in 1997, prompting the creation of films, fan websites, and dozens of similarly themed books. Rowling's world of wizardry has even inspired the name of a dinosaur fossil, Dracorex hogwartsia. But serious researchers are seeing evidence that dragons were more than just fantastical creatures. Adrienne Mayor, a Stanford visiting scholar, has found solid links between certain dinosaur fossils and dragons—enough information, in fact, for her to write three books on the subject. Mayor was consulted in 2008 by the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, which built a dragon exhibit that presented some of her research. Legends of dragons have existed throughout the world and across many, if not all, ancient cultures. Mayor believes that these tales emerged from ancient imaginings of what fossil dinosaurs would have looked like in life. In her view, if ancient people had unearthed a fossil that looked like Dracorex hogwartsia, it is easy to speculate that they would have come up with dragon stories to explain it…"
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| Mako11 | 17 Nov 2016 4:12 p.m. PST |
I've seen them chase men on those Pacific isles, so yes, dragons are real, and rather large. |
| Gonsalvo | 17 Nov 2016 4:55 p.m. PST |
From a "Creation Science" website. Not a credible source, to say the least. |
| Coelacanth1938 | 17 Nov 2016 4:56 p.m. PST |
There must be some truth to the dragon legions. I know that Alexander the Great had special troops and tactics to fight dragons that were in the way of his army link |
| djbthesecond | 17 Nov 2016 6:44 p.m. PST |
Wasn't St George and the Dragon traced back to some story about a guy who beat on a crocodile somewhere near Egypt or something? |
| Dynaman8789 | 17 Nov 2016 7:09 p.m. PST |
All myths have some element of truth to them, usually having to do with food poisoning. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 17 Nov 2016 8:14 p.m. PST |
The article itself is the usual nonsense, but dinosaur fossils were undoubtedly discovered. I have this book,but haven't read it yet: link |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 18 Nov 2016 12:50 a.m. PST |
'The article itself is the usual nonsense,' I have a split personality. One personality is the Scientist who agrees. For Wargaming I often try to engage the other personality as much as possible. The other personality really, really likes articles such as this… |
| Coelacanth1938 | 18 Nov 2016 3:31 a.m. PST |
These days we westerners like to chew out Asians because of their desire for rhino horn and elephant tusks. But in the old days, wealthy westerners ate dragon for what ailed them. What the original dragons were like is anybody's guess, but after they were used up, merchants started substituting other animals and probably caused their extinction as well. If anybody ever stumbles upon any dragon fossils, they probably couldn't identify them as such. |
| langobard | 18 Nov 2016 3:34 a.m. PST |
Of course they were real, I remember at least one Viking saga that referred to a guy who had killed a dragon. If you can't trust the saga's, what can you trust?? |
| Waco Joe | 18 Nov 2016 7:37 a.m. PST |
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| Capt Flash | 18 Nov 2016 2:26 p.m. PST |
If you can believe in winged extra-dimensional beings and people walking on water, or parting seas, then why not believe in dragons, griffons, and vampires? |
| Zephyr1 | 18 Nov 2016 3:22 p.m. PST |
The  's killed them all off… |
| Mugwump | 19 Nov 2016 5:44 a.m. PST |
A theory states that the predators of monkeys and apes were combined by racial memory to a dragon: poisonous snake, harpy eagle and leopard. |
likes his specialists!
