Re: USAGE: Dinos and dragons

> Popular knowledge of dinosaur fossils and reconstructions is no older
> than 150 years in Western culture, and I'd guess a bit less in China.
>
Scientific knowledge, yes. Popular knowledge, I don't know. I do know
that you can find fossils along the south coast of England just by
walking along the bottom of cliffs and checking to see what has been
eroded out in the last storm or two - mostly ammonites and trilobites,
but the occasional bone, sharktooth, etc.

There must be some reason for the widespread appearance of winged
serpents across continents - and I prefer the fossil explanation
rather than the more "Fortean" cryptozoological explanation.

Rik

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