Real Dragon Fossils on Display in China
This “China dragon fossil” has a pair of horns above its head and its shape resembles the legendary animal often described in books and stories. It was recently exhibited in the Xinwei Ancient Life Fossils Museum in Anshun, Guizhou.
Dragons have often appeared in Chinese legends and apparently, Chinese people are often called the “descendents of the dragon”. For a long time, scientists (and me) thought that the dragon was a fictional animal existing only in stories.
The China dragon was a reptile animal living in the ocean in the Triassic Period about 200 million years ago. It was an amphibian. It spent most of its time living in water, although sometimes it walked on land. In which case, it sounds like it didn’t fly and couldn’t breathe fire. Not the same – never mind.
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the word dinosaur was only invented in the late 1800’s before then they were called dragons. Which lived among men. And perhaps still do.
bullshit!
i see the same fossil in a discovery’s doc.
fiction.
it doesn’t look all that real to me..it seems to much like the ones that where in childhood stories….
fake fake fake fake.
this is not a fossil, it is a sculpture. for a start it is resting on a pile of carved polystyrene which is a massive give away. It is far too well preserved to be a fossil, only hard parts like bones can be that well preserved – theres no way the wing and muscle tissue could be that well preserved. Aslo, this is clearly NOT an amphibian; it has an armoured head and scaley skin. Also it appears to have four lega AND wings, which for a vertibrate is impossible. This creature could never spend most of its time in the sea because it is not adapted to living in the sea. This is because it is not a fossil – it is a sculpture which is quite clearly sitting in a sculpture workshop.
Would they really store a true fossil in such condition..as if it was thrown aside, hehehe it is an amazing sculpture or what ever it is.