Some versions of the Bible include numerous mentions of “dragons” (although other versions use different words), and most cultures have legends of dragon encounters. But could those dragons have been dinosaurs?
Being a creature of myth and fantasy it is extremely hard to create a concrete definition of a dragon which includes all dragons people would recognize as such and excludes things people generally agree aren't dragons.
There's several ways to concretely define a dinosaur however given that they actually exist, both in the form of the non avian dinosaurs which went extinct over sixty million years and extant species of avian dinosaurs aka birds. The easiest definition I've seen is any descendent of the last common ancestor between a sparrow and a triceratops.
If it's a giant lizard/bird/snake/reptile/amphibian thing that eats people then it's a dragon as far as I'm concerned. People didn't have a complex taxonomy back then so they had to come up with a word to warn others of the danger and that word was dragon (or whatever the equivalent of dragon is in other languages) People likely told stories and embellished them and it eventually became the dragon mythos.
Non-avian dinosaurs died out 60 million years ago. Early accounts of dragons describe them more as large monitor lizards or snakes, drastically different from dinosaurs.
Please sign your reference. I teach this subject. We analyzed all records throughout all history from all cultures. Never heard any of what you are sighting, besides made up kids books.
@@user-dz1xu8ru5c just look up the early representations of st George fighting his dragon. I feel like someone who really taught a course on this would be familiar with such a basic example. Where did you say you taught again?
