So I'm reading a book about dragons to my daughter and we're looking at the ancient pictures when I had a deep thought (rare, I know)... "dragons were not real but dinosaurs were at one time." What if the ancient Chinese found dinosaur bones and fantasied about the complete shape of the beast to that of a dragon?

When looking at the artwork of ancient dragons, the skulls do resemble dinosaurs. And since Chinese dragons can live in the water as well, why not have it be a kronosuarus in reality? Similarity, since we are learning everyday that some dinosaurs had feathers and possibly flew, well dragons fly too. And maybe the ancient Chinese came across some very well preserved dinosaur fossils and could ascertain that they flew by studying these ancient monsters.

So what does the ATS community think, is this a plausible definition for dragons?

Dinosaurs in China show some differences, with specialized sinraptorid theropods and unusual, long-necked sauropods like Mamenchisaurus.[33] Ankylosaurians and ornithopods were also becoming more common, but prosauropods had become extinct. Conifers and pteridophytes were the most common plants. Sauropods, like the earlier prosauropods, were not oral processors, but ornithischians were evolving various means of dealing with food in the mouth, including potential cheek-like organs to keep food in the mouth, and jaw motions to grind food.[34] Another notable evolutionary event of the Jurassic was the appearance of true birds, descended from maniraptoran coelurosaurians.[14]

Originally posted by Hessdalen
reply to post by JoshF

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r u kidding? if not source please...