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[ShadowOfMothman]

That's true for most cases but, there are other cryptids whose existence cannot be explained this way. Take Mokele-mbembe for example. The natives say it's not an elephant or a giraffe, or any other known species of animal.

[Urisk]

I can't help but feel that sometimes things like Mokele-Mbembe get jumped on a bit too quickly. Most likely is that it is a part of folklore. Up until a hundred years ago people here used to talk about faeries, whether they believed in them or not, it was part of culture, and you wouldn't think twice about saying "Dinnae gang doon tae thon den again, or the Kelpie'll git ye!" to kids too curious about a particularly dangerous stretch of river. Okay so it was a cautionary tale, but these things were alive in the minds of the people, at least in a cultural capacity, if not in a physically real capacity...

[Clobhair-cean]

That's a nice horse pendant that guy is selling on ebay. How come creationists see dinosaurs in every single stylised depiction?

Also, no Brachiosaurs lived in Europe, ever.

[designer]

Abramelin, on 30 December 2012 - 12:24 PM, said:

If you can watch Outlander (2008), do it. It's a SciFi movie based on Beowulf, well sort of.
http://ffilms.org/?p=3722

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Great movie, love me some vikings and what a perfect dipiction of a dragon. I don't know how it has anything to do with Beowulf though. Lots of Beowulf movies out there too.

[PersonFromPorlock]

My own theory is that unicorns are the result of Greek travellers in India describing the Indian rhinoceros as a hippopotamus (Literally "river horse" in Greek) with a horn. Later the "river" part gets dropped by people who don't know what a hippo is.

The school solution to stories of giants and monsters is that our ancestors made them up to account for fossil megafauna bones.

[omen667]

I bring this point only we think acient man was primative,but with every lie there,it is a story with truth to it acient people where not morons they only wrote or drew what they encountered but remeber alot of animals where not found until this century, the sea as well  land that has managed to stay uninhabited could have all kinds of animals waiting to be discovered.

[Xeaphon]

Say, what happened to that Dragon Chronicler guy who was active on these forums last time I was here, a few years ago. I'm sure he'd have some interesting theories on this.

[Coyote Speaks]

Do you have any sources other than s8int for the claim?  The website is notorious for being unreliable and full of Creationist propaganda...

Xeaphon, on 03 January 2013 - 05:03 PM, said:

Say, what happened to that Dragon Chronicler guy who was active on these forums last time I was here, a few years ago. I'm sure he'd have some interesting theories on this.

We don't talk about him...

[TheSearcher]

teri107, on 30 December 2012 - 06:38 AM, said:

Dragons; sometimes huge, reptilian, dangerous, sometimes winged, sometimes not creatures – are reported not as mythological but as real in every ancient culture on every continent. Of course, those creatures that we now call dinosaurs were also sometimes huge, dangerous, sometimes winged, sometimes not creatures – that lived on every continent. (Technically pterosaurs are not considered dinosaurs).

Among those ancient cultures who described living dragons were the Norse and that subset of the Norse culture the Vikings.

http://s8int.com/Wor...a-of-sauropoda/

I have to rectify this, just cause it's bugging me immensely : The Vikings (from Old Norse víkingr) were the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century. Hence them being called Norsemen. Or to put it simply - Norse = Vikings. One is not a subset of the other, they are two names for the same thing.

Now if you talk Norse mythology, then you are partly correct, but it is the other way around. Norse mythology or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of mythology of the North Germanic peoples (or the Norse) and is actually a subset of Germanic mythology.  The latter in turn, is a comprehensive term for myths associated with historical Germanic paganism, including, but not only, Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, Continental Germanic mythology, and other versions of the mythologies of the Germanic peoples. Germanic mythology ultimately derives from Indo-European mythology, also known as Indo-Germanic mythology.

Sorry if I sound pedantic, but I hate when people mash up two similar terms, which such different meaning and significance.

Abramelin, on 30 December 2012 - 12:24 PM, said:

If you can watch Outlander (2008), do it. It's a SciFi movie based on Beowulf, well sort of.
http://ffilms.org/?p=3722

Great movie that, I love watching it.

Xeaphon, on 03 January 2013 - 05:03 PM, said:

Say, what happened to that Dragon Chronicler guy who was active on these forums last time I was here, a few years ago. I'm sure he'd have some interesting theories on this.

Lets say he became a tad too obsessed with his ideas and started rejecting reality and creating his own. After a few.....lets call them "heavy altercations" with other people and the mods........he was banned if I'm not mistaken.

[PersonFromPorlock]

Xeaphon, on 03 January 2013 - 05:03 PM, said:

Say, what happened to that Dragon Chronicler guy who was active on these forums last time I was here, a few years ago. I'm sure he'd have some interesting theories on this.

Oh, he got et.