Daily Dino Fact: Dragon or Dinosaur?
Dinosaur?
Q: What were dinosaurs called before they were called dinosaurs? HaleyN
A: Dinosaurs have been called many things before people realized what the actually were. Humans have been finding dinosaur bones for thousands of years but it wasn’t until the 1600’s when people started thinking, shall we say, more accurately about them.
The Chinese believed them to be dragon bones and used them in traditional medicines. During the Jin Dynasty (265-420 AD), Zhang Qu writes of the discovery of such bones as dragons. Dragons have long been a symbol of Chinese culture, something the discovery of dinosaur bones surely influenced.
In Europe, people believed that the bones were the remains of creatures or giants that had been killed during the Biblical Great Flood. During the 1600s, people started scientifically describing the remains they had found and recognized them as belonging to an extinct animal. It wasn’t until Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur” in 1842 that we had a modern name for them.
-Rex
Tags: chinese culture, Daily Dino Fact, dinosaur history, Dinosaurs, dragons, sir richard owen, webosaurs
December 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Hey cool Q. I got one what was the
leviathan?Iamrich
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Dear Rex,
I talked to other pros. I talked to mods. They both said we might get the name plate and the gold chat bubble back. I think this would be good for pros as a resault of there hard work. I think it would modivate players to help the commuity, and to prove its a good thing. We dont have that much pros protecting webosaurs YET. But if the name plates and the gold chatbubble came out, im sure we would have a lot more requestments for protectors in webosaurs. It will teach kids all around the world to: be a good person, work hard, and do the right thing.
The good gets rewarded, Pepperz
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:51 pm
its a dragon
December 4th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Well done pepperz i think the good should get rewarded
December 4th, 2009 at 10:17 am
i’ve got a q!!
how do we know so much about dinosaurs just from the bones??
December 4th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
What is the most terrifying marine reptile ever to live?
December 12th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
How did people discover “Dinosaurs”?