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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.

Dragon-Fossil

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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185 Comments     Categories : China, Culture

185 Responses to “Real Dragon Fossils on Display in China”

  1. kaythi says:

    I do wanna know whether dragon is a real animal or not.please tell me the truth with acceptable facts.

  2. Heather says:

    that image above is a prop from a mockumentary about finding a real dragon fossil. while its a great doco, its unfortunately not real.

  3. Yasmin says:

    This is not real. Its a still from the TV show “The Last Dragon”

  4. Matt says:

    That still was never in the move The Last Dragon, get, check your facts.

  5. Edora says:

    eeven if it was real it would be classified as a european dragon not chinese



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