Dragons And Dinosaurs
Lorry art of a dragon slayer, Jaffna.
To me, dragons make perfect sense. They’re dinosaurs. If I found a T-Rex skull, as proto-humans must have, it would look like a dragon to me. Awesome attracts awesome. If I didn’t imagine that this thing also flew and breathed fire, the next village certainly would. I mean, how do we know dinosaurs didn’t breathe fire anyways? Un-burnt dentition I guess, but still.
Sadly, this idea has been taken up by Creationists to support their idea that the earth is about 10,000 years old, and that dinosaurs and humans coexisted. I still think it’s plausible, but not taken to that non-sequitur of an extreme. It’s quite possible that people saw dinosaur bones and communicated them as tales of dragons. Perhaps knights even brought some teeth home.
Here’s another theory:
Jones argues that the image of the dragon is composed of the salient body parts of three predator species that hunted and killed our tree-dwelling African primate ancestors for about sixty million years. The three predators are the leopard, the python, and the eagle.
Because the image combined features from three dominant predators, it could quickly send the neural message very dangerous animal. (The Evolution Of Monsters: Salon)
I somehow find this far less plausible.
Mohsin Hamid, author of How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia, has a nice 
I’m happy to be featured in Echelon magazine’s 40 Under 40 feature, profiling young people who contribute to the economy in some way, mainly in business but also in terms of innovation and thought leadership. It’s an interesting article not just in that I’m in it (mainly for work on indi.ca and 
I won’t add too much commentary, but just read I guess. The youngest Rajapaksa, Rohitha (Chi Chi) has given an amazing interview to the 
In 2009 this strange character appeared on the Sri Lankan Internet scene, getting angry, flaming, trolling whatever. Then he started naming anonymous bloggers, posting comments as people’s kids, nasty stuff, for which I removed him from 
but dragons don’t look like dinosaurs at all, especially the oriental ones. They look like overgrown snakes with wings.
Pterodactyls?
Lol…the reconstruction of what dinosaurs look like from their bones is a relatively new science. I believe the theory here is that humans many years in the past found the bones and created a story for what the creature was.
There’s a place in China that the villagers call Lurking Dragon Hill. The area abounds with fossils of miniature pre-historic marine reptiles that the people use as good luck charms. Relatives of Nessie?