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Did someone find a t-rex skull and think it was a dragon?

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Did someone find a t-rex skull and think it was a dragon?

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There are dragons that pre-date the Chinese dragons and their similarities suggest they were the basis for such dragons. In the great Ishtar gate of Babylon, there are depictions of such things as “Mushushu dragons.” Mushushus were serpent-like dragons with horse-like necks. The Babylonian legends claim that the gods rode on them like horses. The Sumerians and Babylonians gave these divine serpents feet in art. Their art was known to blend creatures with the features of others. For instance giving humans the lower bodies of other animals to convey a symbolic meaning. The serpent Mushushu dragons were given feet to signify they could be rode on. Perhaps they were merely serpents being re-imagined by these people also, and the image caught on. That is another possibility. It’s not a far stretch of the imagination when they created the image of a man with the lower body of a horse to signify a hunter (Sagittarius), and we see the later Greeks talking of centaurs as if they were real mytho

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