TIL that in the work, An Instinct for Dragons, an anthropologist argues that the universality of dragons across human societies is due to evolutionary reasons, with common primate predators being merged into a hybrid monster.

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    4 months ago

    Overly Sarcastic Productions argues that the issue is mostly ‘why are so many lizard-ish creatures lumped under one label?’

    The video ends by pointing out, if they were just what made people flinch, there’d be a lot more spider involved.