Dragons Might Be More Real Than You Think

Cultures with zero contact with each other — separated by oceans, mountains, and thousands of years — all independently invented the same monster. A massive scaled creature. Sharp claws. Sometimes wings. Sometimes fire. This is the story of why dragons appear in nearly every civilization on Earth, and what real, physical evidence might explain it — from dinosaur fossils dug up with no concept of extinction, to a fear response wired into the primate brain millions of years before humans existed. Topics covered: dragon mythology, comparative mythology, dinosaur fossils, snake detection theory, ancient human psychology, paleontology, cross-cultural myths, evolutionary fear response, Adrienne Mayor, Lynne Isbell