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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I always like it when the professional crazies weigh in.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

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