![]() ![]() Stories tend to get misremembered and changed in little ways with each telling, causing them to drift over time. Well, when scientists took a look at the dragon myth from the perspective of evolutionary biology, they found some strangely familiar patterns. From the feathered Quetzalcoatl of Aztec culture to the many-headed Mesopotamian deity Tiamat, supernatural serpents have been causing floods, kidnapping women, and making a general nuisance of themselves to the heroes of our favourite stories for as long as anyone can remember.īut where did these lumbering lizards come from in the first place? How did they get to be so widespread? And what does any of this have to do with palaeontology? No matter how much or how little you know about mythology, you know about dragons. Brook for the 1890 book, “English Fairy tales and Other Folk Tales”). (This post also shared on the Bristol Dinosaur Project blog) An illustration of the Lambton Worm, my personal favourite dragon, who was tossed down as well as a little eel-like creature and grew to terrorise county Durham (Illustrated by C. By Sophie Pollard, MSc Palaeobiology course, University of Bristol ![]()
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