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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164 comments | | categories : China, Culture
I mean i don’t know what to belive.
I’ve seen this dragons show on animal planet and stuff, but it just seems to hard to belive, is it fake or not it looks kinda real, but then again where did the dragon stories begin and how?
Hmmmm?
Real-life beast?
Or Fictional character?
We may never know the truth…
this looks pretty cool..im not sure if its real..
but isnt it supposed to be all bones and not show
the rotten skin….
don’t you think it is too much coincidence that every part of the world had seen dragons? principally in the middle age, when the main continents hadn’t been discovered by the europeans??
I guess that’s just a fake…
dragon just a fictional figure,,
but I like that’s pict,,Like a realy2 real :)