Where do the myths about dragons come from?
The dragon is a mythical creature typically depicted as a gigantic and powerful serpent or other reptile with magical or spiritual qualities. Most experts on mythology and folklore argue that legends of dragons are based upon ordinary snakes and similar creatures coupled with common psychological fears amongst disparate groups of humans. It is notable that dragon depictions do not appear in the earliest cave pictographs or sculptures of wildlife encountered by early humans during the hunter-gatherer era, and depictions only originate after the agricultural revolution, when humans began to excavate the earth for wells, graves, irrigation ditches, building foundations, etc. For this reason, many speculate that it was the discovery of dinosaur fossils which first gave rise to the concept of dragons. Dinosaur fossils would have been common to all the geographic areas where early civilizations began, and where the dinosaur myths originally show up in ancient folklore. Some believe that the
