I always like it when the professional crazies weigh in.

  • Infynis@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    I mean, yeah, this did happen. People hundreds of years ago found scary-looking bones, and imagined what they could be from. Dinosaur translates to basically Terror Lizard for a reason. That doesn’t mean that they were dragons though lmao

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      5 months ago

      Supposedly the predecessors to the ancient Greeks mistook the skull of a breed of small elephants as the skull of a one-eyed giant.

      Image of a sculpture of a cyclops next to the skull of an elephant

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        5 months ago

        One look at an elephant skull and it’s pretty easy to understand how someone would think that