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bit harsh mod calling posters whackos for having a diff in opinion about something
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Conspiracy Theory Dinosaurs... another hoax :/ ?
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Yes, but where is the evidence for the conspiracy?
are ya nuts mate? they been finding dinosaur fossils for centuries. They used to call it dragons or giants then. We only got to know dinosaur was a different specie much later. When the first full dinosaur fossil was found, we still didnt know it was dinosaur. 75 years after the first fossil was discovered we knew it was dinosaur.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/First.shtml
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. The Greeks and Romans may have found fossils, giving rise to their many ogre and griffin legends. There are references to "dragon" bones found in Wucheng, Sichuan, China (written by Chang Qu) over 2,000 years ago; these were probably dinosaur fossils.
giants are real
. The Greeks and Romans may have found fossils, giving rise to their many ogre and griffin legends. There are references to "dragon" bones found in Wucheng, Sichuan, China (written by Chang Qu) over 2,000 years ago; these were probably dinosaur fossils.
giants are real
Why do you think the myth of dragons came from? they look exactly like dinosaurs but with wings.
No scientist is gonna make the claim that it was definitely dinosaur cause we didnt know dinosaurs existed that long ago. Hence the term "probably" is used.
Join the dots, sometimes, its too hard for you to do that.
India. They look like a horse or an ass, combined. Pretty close. The myth must come from something! dragons came from dinosaurs.
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Don't you know?? That's how the round earth conspiracy started!! Jesuits in China!!
We're through the looking glass here people...
better than being blinded by stupidity and these ridiculous conspiracies. Seriously, some conspiracies are ok, but these are really dumb.
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having a mythology about dragons, doesn't prove s**t. similar to unicorns or fire-birds
certainly not that the ancients discovered dinosaurs.
in fact mainstream conventional science/history agrees the first dinosaurs were all found in recent time like your crappy link states.
i am glad you are policing which theories are ok and which are not. a tough job but someones gotta do it
So now you are a fossil expert too? is there anything you are not an expert in? including stupidity?
how the * would you know what a dinosaur is before you knew one? i am sure there are plenty of fossils around of animals which we have no idea about. Grow up
http://shc.stanford.edu/news/research/dinosaurs-and-dragons-oh-my
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na thats why i am quoting scientific types and historians that specializes in this field
Stanford English scholar explores the aesthetics of sexuality in Victorian novels
Can a work of art be erotic without directly mentioning sex or sexuality? According to Claire Jarvis, a professor of English at Stanford, novelists in Victorian England mastered the art of building erotic tension without uttering a word about sex itself.
thank you for sharing that, nice link
How the hell are these 2 things related? one is an english scholar and the other is a fossil expert. Are you that stupid?
you realise ENGLISH is not science?
Since you cant read, here is the article
Many paleontologists today believe there are connections between the mythological dragons that ancient peoples believed in and the human discovery of dinosaur fossils.
Adrienne Mayor, a Stanford visiting scholar who researches both folklore and fossils supports that theory and has written two books which explore those connections.
When The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the largest children’s museum in the U.S., needed an expert to help them link creatures of the imagination to real dinosaur fossils for a new exhibit, they called on Mayor for her unique expertise.
The new exhibit, "Dragons Unearthed," features a 66-million-year-old, first-of-its-kind, dragon-like dinosaur, called Dracorex. There’s no denying that Dracorex’s long muzzle and spiky horns conjure up visions of a magical beast, but the museum needed an expert to confirm that it wasn’t a coincidence that Dracorex looked more like a dragon than a dinosaur.
With her extensive studies of ancient cultures’ conceptions of fossils as evidence of dragons, Mayor’s expertise proved to be exactly what museum curators needed. Mayor was asked to share her thoughts on Dracorex, named Dracorex hogwartsia in honor of children’s author J.K. Rowling.
“The shape of the dinosaur’s skull, with its long muzzle, bizarre knobs and horns, surprised the scientists,” she said. “But the skull looks strangely familiar to anyone who has studied dragons! Dracorex has a remarkable resemblance to the dragons of ancient China and medieval Europe.”
Mayor, a scholar of Classics and History of Science, has spent years looking at the link between paleontological findings and the dragon myths that populated many ancient and medieval religions and cultures and survive even today. Mayor’s latest publication, Fossil Legends of the First Americans, correlates Native American myths with the fossils they are known or presumed to have observed.
Mayor combined her keen interest in paleontology with an abundance of long-forgotten literary, artistic and paleontological evidence to support her thesis that at least some of the fantastic mythological monsters were based on paleontological realities.
According to Mayor, Sioux Indians who found a skull like that of Dracorex might have identified it as “Unktehi,” the mythical horned water monster of the South Dakota badlands, where the fossil was unearthed. She continued, “Dracorex helps us understand how fossils of mysterious, extinct animals may have inspired ancient people around the world to believe that dragons and other fabulous creatures once lived. Like modern paleontologists, fossil hunters in antiquity tried to imagine the appearance and behavior of the creatures whose bones they found.”
Adrienne Mayor is an independent scholar who investigates scientific realities embedded in myth and classical antiquity. Her research looks at ancient "folk science" precursors, alternatives, and parallels to modern scientific methods. Mayor's books The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times and Fossil Legends of the First Americans opened a new field within geomythology. She is active in classical folklore, and is an independent scholar in Stanford’s Classics Department and the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Program.
Dragons Unearthed, which opened at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis on September 18th, 2008, highlights information that helps to explain how fossils of mysterious, extinct animals may have inspired ancient people around the world to believe that dragons and other fabulous creatures once lived. Many paleontologists today believe there might be a link between the mythological creatures ancient peoples believed to be dragons and the discovery of dinosaur fossils.
Dragons Unearthed is a family-friendly, art-based exhibit centered that explores the mythology behind dragons using true dinosaur facts.
For more information about Dragons Unearthed at The Children’s Museum, please call (317) 334-3322 or visit www.ChildrensMuseum.org
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dragonlogy ? no folk science
Why am i not surprised you are big on 'folk science'
understand how fossils of mysterious, extinct animals may have inspired ancient people around the world to believe that dragons and other fabulous creatures once lived.
fringe theory unaccepted in the wider scientific community as widely stated
the holographic universe of the dinosaurs world ? perhaps a fair analogy
dinosaurs were found 1800ish
Ofcourse "may have" cause there is no absolute way to know this. Scientists cannot make a claim without being 100 percent certain. There difference between people like you and scientists is you post claims and then cannot produce evidence of that, scientists dont do that.
How would you know what a dinosaur is, when you didnt know what it was? i am sure there are many fossils are being discovered today where we have no idea what specie it was. It doesnt mean they were never explored/found, it takes time to put the pieces together.
Here see this.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...saur-discovered-in-china-tongtianlong-limosus
There is surely a link between these 2. They are very very closely related. Phoneix, unicorns etc are also myth, which actually came from real animals. Doesnt mean phoenix existed.
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Romans most imported and adapted its believe system from existing cultures. Like that of the Greeks, which too stole much of it from Mesopotamian and Egyptian culture - hence that is where the dragon myth originally came from (for that section of the world)
So these (middle eastern) ancient people originally found dinosaurs bones and came up with the dragon-myth? Maybe but there is a lack of proof it seems just basless assumptions by you and the 'folk scientist' you are quoting
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