Flying Squidcake to [email protected] • 1 year agoCould it be?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up195
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish55•1 year agoI 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink25•edit-21 year agoSupposedly the predecessors to the ancient Greeks mistook the skull of a breed of small elephants as the skull of a one-eyed giant.
minus-squareI Cast Fistlinkfedilink19•1 year agoOne look at an elephant skull and it’s pretty easy to understand how someone would think that
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
Supposedly the predecessors to the ancient Greeks mistook the skull of a breed of small elephants as the skull of a one-eyed giant.
One look at an elephant skull and it’s pretty easy to understand how someone would think that