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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Inn the middle of the night I turned on my small T/V Location unknown to see a most valuable scientific acount of worh in ice covered caves
A proposed history of Dragons with underwater period was given. The cave was home to a mother and child in the bronze age period in Romania.
Men entered the cave and killed the baby leaving the end of weapon in its heart. Mother returned and killed a man, burning his head. Dragon died over him. Full detales to British Museum.Any truth? Would like to pass on other thoughts. Please……
Burnt rocks and scratches.
In Wales high level sea caves not easy to get at on verticle cliffs. Have they carbon on walls at say 2m Strait deep scratches at lower levels?
Michael
A marine animal with legs? That is fishy . . . or not fishy.
I saw that special, Micheal Jones. It was on Discovery, I believe. It was fake, of course; they were posing a what if scenario, and a possible history of the creatures if they had been real.