tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post2148147585564636050..comments2023-07-15T05:32:20.508-07:00Comments on Frontiers of Zoology: Ancient Babylonian and Assyrian Dragons Are Also EuryapsidsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-76792512218721771342012-04-06T11:33:42.076-07:002012-04-06T11:33:42.076-07:00if you go youtube badran 106 channel and link you ...if you go youtube badran 106 channel and link you will see 2 ancient carving have a dragon one from syria black stone and one from phoenicia for a strange animal on top of a lime stone box...nice to see this blog...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-64640187837123207982012-01-11T01:54:29.101-08:002012-01-11T01:54:29.101-08:00This should not be the most important entry on lon...This should not be the most important entry on longboats, were looking to find longboats in the history of water transportation? I might need to write up a separate piece for that.<br /><br />The best case for premodern reconstructions of dinosaur fossils turns out to have been done by the Sioux Plains Indians, and they have a sort of cobbled-together emblem for the type combining the body, long neck and tail of a sauropod with a round-shielded Ceratopsian skull, most likely a Triceratops, and they use that emblem to describe a former world of water monsters (dragons) that warred on the monsters of the air until all were defeated: that is not too far different from what our textbooks said up until about 1970.<br /><br />In the case of the Classical world, we are talking about an area largely devoid of Plesiosaur fossils. So they were not making reconstructions out of fossils when they represented Euryapsid Water Monsters (dragons)<br /><br />Best Wishes, Dale D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-16359067962798508692012-01-10T21:29:24.538-08:002012-01-10T21:29:24.538-08:00I went looking for info on longboats and the histo...I went looking for info on longboats and the history of water travel and got directed back here.Drusinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06806967203861207477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-69246342510916459162012-01-10T21:28:11.520-08:002012-01-10T21:28:11.520-08:00Drawings of dinosaurs, or at least what they thoug...Drawings of dinosaurs, or at least what they thought one might look like after happening upon a triceratops' fossil, or any other number of extinct animal's remains for that. By the way, I really enjoy your scopeDrusinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06806967203861207477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-63541912813603918792011-12-12T13:58:41.966-08:002011-12-12T13:58:41.966-08:00For the usual conventionalizations, perhaps, but t...For the usual conventionalizations, perhaps, but then you are going on a general impression and not the specific anatomy. As fat as the close-up views of the head go, as far as the specific anatomy goes, <em> the continuing reason for supposing all of these different dragons from all over the world are based on an original Euryapsid creature is that they all has these openings in the back of the top of the skull behind the eyes. Snakes do not have the openings, nor anything remotely like them. It is the skull openings which define the Euryapsid grouping.</em> So basically if you have reports or representations of no legs or different kinds of legs, it doesn't matter: the usual visual sighting would not have included the legs anyway. And if certain artistic conventionalizations remind the viewer of one thing or another from different views in later representations, that is also not especially important when the artists are working generations later from earlier prototypes they did not understand. Unless there is a continual cross-checking of artistic representations with actual sightings, the reiterated artistic conventionalizations shall always tend to look less and less like the original, and to be less recognisable <em> as</em> the original creature originally meant to be represented.<br /><br />Thank you for your input,<br />Best Wishes, Dale D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-629061224332673795.post-19507806622090287842011-12-12T09:35:12.723-08:002011-12-12T09:35:12.723-08:00To me the Sirrush's head may in fact belong t...To me the Sirrush's head may in fact belong to the Crowing Crested Snake rather than an euryapsid, with a simplified crest and additional horns.Boshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17582184345673934121noreply@blogger.com