Flying Squid@lemmy.world to InsanePeopleFacebook@lemmy.world · 2 months agoCould it be?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squareInfynislinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down1·2 months 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-squarefartsparkles@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up25·edit-22 months 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 Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 months 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