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Dragon myths were not inspired by dinosaur fossils: if they had been, dragons from different cultures would look alike.
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- Dave Hone Palaeontologist and reader in zoology at Queen Mary University of London
Why don't Chinese dragons look like Mexican dragons or equivalent thunderbirds or whatever? Well, because it probably wasn't influencing them. If they were all seeing the same skeleton, they'd probably all produce the same kind of mythical animals.
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