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Many of these fill the role of The Hero's Bond Creature in any given series, when that role isn't filled by an actual dragon mon.
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See also Our Dragons Are Different, Fiery Salamander, Here There Were Dragons, Giant Flyer, Reptiles Are Abhorrent, Ptero Soarer, and (naturally) Artistic License Paleontology. In any case, look for fantasy worlds where wizards are finding dragon fossils and local legendary dragons who turn out to be surviving dinosaurs.ĭinosaurs are Dragons may be considered a subtrope of Prehistoric Monster, which talks about the pop-portraits of general prehistoric life. This may also tie into recent depictions of Feathered Dragons - as it's a well-established fact by now that some carnivorous dinosaurs were birdlike, feathered animals (in fact, it's currently understood that dinosaurs would be better described as big proto-birds than as big reptiles, to the point that modern biologists actually differentiate between "avian dinosaurs" and "non-avian dinosaurs" rather than between birds and dinosaurs), dragons associated with them may be given feathers of their own as a result. Quite a few anthropologists are now suggesting that many of the legends of fantastic beasts were based upon misinterpreted fossils. The newer version comes at the issue from a different angle: now it's more like Dragons Are Dinosaurs. The older version of the trope is gradually becoming more and more discredited as it filters into the pop-culture consciousness that dinosaurs, really, were just another kind of animal. Other creationists even think literal dragons and other mythical creatures actually existed and met humans (along with dinosaurs). One Kent Hovind goes so far as to say that some species "must" have breathed fire (because The Bible - or at least the King James Version - mentions dragons.even though it says nothing about those dragons breathing fire) and may still exist in some Lost World in The Amazon or somewhere. Speaking of, this trope probably has some relationship with the belief, held by both certain creationists and some cryptozoologists, that some dinosaurs survived the mass extinction and inspired the stories of dragons. Mitchell, have wondered if the older "tripod stance" seen in early depictions of bipedal dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex is meant to at least subconsciously bring to mind images of the Biblical "upright serpent". But take a look at early paleo-art and you'll not only see tons of lava, but also many dinosaurs who look suspiciously like dragons wandering in this hellish, primeval, pre- human landscape.
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There was a lot of volcanic activity during the Cretaceous, but it certainly was nowhere near as violent as depicted in fiction, and it had more to do with poison gas than rivers of lava and hellfire raining down everywhere. It may also have something to do with the popular notion that associates ancient times with loads and loads of flame-spewing volcanoes. It might be partly explained by the fact that these creatures were called dragons before the word "dinosaur" was invented by one Sir Richard Owen in 1841, making the word younger than the field of rocket science. The Western origins of this trope are a bit more complicated.