Ancient myths of dragons, titans, and giants--inhuman creatures battling it out on an alien earth before mankind--are easy enough to find. Seemingly every culture has them. What's perhaps more surprising is that many of these tales of deformed and monstrous beings, whether terrifying dragons or beneficent heroes armed for battle, often resulted from a misunderstanding of the fossil record.
Ancient myths of dragons, titans, and giants--inhuman creatures battling it out on an alien earth before mankind--are easy enough to find. Seemingly every culture has them. What's perhaps more surprising is that many of these tales of deformed and monstrous beings, whether terrifying dragons or beneficent heroes armed for battle, often resulted from a misunderstanding of the fossil record.
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