Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 16 days agoWhat did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs?message-squaremessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up191
arrow-up191message-squareWhat did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs?Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 16 days agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squareMelllvar@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up93·16 days agoDragons, giants, monsters, that sort of thing. They weren’t entirely wrong.
minus-squareGreenBeard@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·16 days agoI mean, other than breathing fire, the difference between a particularly large pterosaur and a dragon mostly down to the shape of the head.
minus-squareGreenBeard@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 days agoI mean, sure, they’re the biggest, but really most of the Azhdarchid Pterosaurs would count as some kind of Dragon.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 days agoPterosaurs, terror soars, something something something some…
minus-squareWilco@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·14 days agoI love the fact they believed elephant skulls were giant cyclops skulls.
Dragons, giants, monsters, that sort of thing. They weren’t entirely wrong.
I mean, other than breathing fire, the difference between a particularly large pterosaur and a dragon mostly down to the shape of the head.
Particularly large pterosaur you say?
I mean, sure, they’re the biggest, but really most of the Azhdarchid Pterosaurs would count as some kind of Dragon.
Pterosaurs, terror soars, something something something some…
I love the fact they believed elephant skulls were giant cyclops skulls.