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HeresYourSauce
Dinosaurs might be the inspiration for some fairy tails. (My personal belief is that "giants" were real, but aren't anything we'd think is too special today. The average height 300 bc was much shorter than today, but if someone was well fed they had the potential to grow to the same height as modern people. Then take people like "Andre the Giant" and watch how word of mouth distorts their measurements.)
PFCWintergreen
Look at what an elephant skull looks like and you'll see 100% that's where the giant myths came from.
HeresYourSauce
That's kind of what I was thinking for dinos, interpreting bones and fossils without context. For elephant skulls though I think that's more cyclops. Some cyclops depictions even have tusks.
lalwaysupvotecatsandTHT
Dinosaurs are (were?) real, giants and dragons are not.
leeriflewood2
That would be the popular belief anyway.
Iowyn
Key word here. Belief.
Fun part about science is, you don't need to believe in it. It works without belief.
It is fun to have beliefs, when they don't cause harm. And the imagination is One of the most amazing things we have.
Imagine the person who first made up the story about giants or fairies learning how far their story had come. They'd be impressed, I'm sure.
siccoyote
Backed up by physical evidence
DraconianMarshmallowPoink
They still are real, at least the particular clade of toothless theropods we now call birds.
siccoyote
Also Crocodiles
DraconianMarshmallowPoink
Well, not quite. Crocodiles, dinosaurs, and pterosaurs share a common ancestor, and are collectively known as archosaurs.
siccoyote
Crocodiles originate from the late cretaceous period so lived at the same time as T-Rex, that's good enough for me.