Surprisingly Plausible Real-Life Explanations For Mythical Creatures
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Date: 2023-05-21
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I submit to you The Tyrannosaurus Rex. No mythology matches them, but look at that bone apparatus that crosses in front of the beasts ribcage to provide shoulder joints for those tiny useless arms, who's bones look more like the base of wing bones. That weird bone structure across the rib-cage of the T-rex is unique. Such a thing does not track in any evolutionary model, nor match to any other beast past or present. Commonly it is observed that dinosaurs were most similar in bone structure to modern birds. We DO see such structures in birds. Not across the rib cage. Across the spine. (Wings are mostly supported with cartilage that is unlikely to fossilize in it's decay processes) Also the micro-structure studies suggest this animal had feathers.
So put those arms on it's back, like every other known feathered animal with that bone structure, and those arms are now the base of very large wings. You have just discovered the Wyvern.
Congrats!
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I submit to you The Tyrannosaurus Rex. No mythology matches them, but look at that bone apparatus that crosses in front of the beasts ribcage to provide shoulder joints for those tiny useless arms, who's bones look more like the base of wing bones. That weird bone structure across the rib-cage of the T-rex is unique. Such a thing does not track in any evolutionary model, nor match to any other beast past or present. Commonly it is observed that dinosaurs were most similar in bone structure to modern birds. We DO see such structures in birds. Not across the rib cage. Across the spine. (Wings are mostly supported with cartilage that is unlikely to fossilize in it's decay processes) Also the micro-structure studies suggest this animal had feathers.
So put those arms on it's back, like every other known feathered animal with that bone structure, and those arms are now the base of very large wings. You have just discovered the Wyvern.
Congrats!
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TD,
Yeti'nuther higjly plausible explanation: Low cost, but highly effective means of controlling the local population. by instilling in their minds images of powerful, fearsome creatures that they can't and would actually never see, yet the existence of which no one could, to their satisfaction, conclusively disprove.
Come to think of it, that's a rather familiar motif. Still hasn't gone completely out of style.
TD, Boston
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Yeti'nuther higjly plausible explanation: Low cost, but highly effective means of controlling the local population. by instilling in their minds images of powerful, fearsome creatures that they can't and would actually never see, yet the existence of which no one could, to their satisfaction, conclusively disprove.
Come to think of it, that's a rather familiar motif. Still hasn't gone completely out of style.
TD, Boston
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Ingrid
The story of the cyclops makes me think of when i was a kid in the 80s and my parents gave me a book on body changes thru puberty, and the page on boobs said a young girl may notice a lump develop on one or both sides of her chest and as a misfit/late-bloomer, i misunderstood and thought you could end up with just one boob, right in the middle. I was convinced i would be the one girl in my high school with mono-boob.
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The story of the cyclops makes me think of when i was a kid in the 80s and my parents gave me a book on body changes thru puberty, and the page on boobs said a young girl may notice a lump develop on one or both sides of her chest and as a misfit/late-bloomer, i misunderstood and thought you could end up with just one boob, right in the middle. I was convinced i would be the one girl in my high school with mono-boob.
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Georgiana
There are many tall tales in the world and Mircea Eliade once said that men invent all sorts of stories, myths and legends as a way to provide an explanation for things they either don't have clear proof or don't understand things. Friedrich Nietzsche said that humanity invented all sorts of stories because it fears the world it lives in and doesn't accept reality.
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There are many tall tales in the world and Mircea Eliade once said that men invent all sorts of stories, myths and legends as a way to provide an explanation for things they either don't have clear proof or don't understand things. Friedrich Nietzsche said that humanity invented all sorts of stories because it fears the world it lives in and doesn't accept reality.
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Volatile
Can it just be that they all actually existed but humans are jerks and capture/kill rare and large or cool looking or weird looking creatures. Imagine if I started telling stories that involved dodo birds and Tasmanian tigers and because the story is so fantastical and those creatures no longer exist that in 1000 years people will think of these creatures as myth?
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Can it just be that they all actually existed but humans are jerks and capture/kill rare and large or cool looking or weird looking creatures. Imagine if I started telling stories that involved dodo birds and Tasmanian tigers and because the story is so fantastical and those creatures no longer exist that in 1000 years people will think of these creatures as myth?
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EverettBurger
Vampire origin stories may have been from those who are afflicted with tuberculosis.
- withering away.
- unquenchable thirst.
- coughing up blood.
- highly contagious.
Historical studies have shown vampire stories popping up around the same time as tuberculosis outbreaks.
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Vampire origin stories may have been from those who are afflicted with tuberculosis.
- withering away.
- unquenchable thirst.
- coughing up blood.
- highly contagious.
Historical studies have shown vampire stories popping up around the same time as tuberculosis outbreaks.
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Elizabeth
Heck yeah amazing subject on my fave Sunday morning thing Weird History! It's amazing outside today Middle Tennessee is in full spring sunny day hope everyone has a stellar happy and SAFE week till next Sunday morning thanks Weird History great way to learn & leave your own head for a bit
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Heck yeah amazing subject on my fave Sunday morning thing Weird History! It's amazing outside today Middle Tennessee is in full spring sunny day hope everyone has a stellar happy and SAFE week till next Sunday morning thanks Weird History great way to learn & leave your own head for a bit
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Red
Actually unicorns did exist. The last ones where seen in Saudi Arabia in 1400's documented in a personal journal. A pair of them was given to Saudi prince for birthday. They where in a cage sitting around the Kabba. The person who wrote journal stated this was the last pair of them.
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Actually unicorns did exist. The last ones where seen in Saudi Arabia in 1400's documented in a personal journal. A pair of them was given to Saudi prince for birthday. They where in a cage sitting around the Kabba. The person who wrote journal stated this was the last pair of them.
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Justin
There are snakes that can glide from tree to tree. Heard an anecdote about it from an old Vietnam vet. They flatten out their bellies like a flying squirrel. Worst kind of danger noodle out there is a 2 step flying Charlie
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There are snakes that can glide from tree to tree. Heard an anecdote about it from an old Vietnam vet. They flatten out their bellies like a flying squirrel. Worst kind of danger noodle out there is a 2 step flying Charlie
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Chubby
I always wonder if some fossil T-rex skull gave us the dragon. There are also plenty of megalodon teeth washing up on shores. People will have known shark teeth. So compare the two and you have quite a monster.
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I always wonder if some fossil T-rex skull gave us the dragon. There are also plenty of megalodon teeth washing up on shores. People will have known shark teeth. So compare the two and you have quite a monster.
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wyomins
Ancients finding elephant skulls and assuming they are cyclops is hilarious, just like us finding dinosaur bones and assuming they are giant walking reptiles instead of the kaiju they really are.
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Ancients finding elephant skulls and assuming they are cyclops is hilarious, just like us finding dinosaur bones and assuming they are giant walking reptiles instead of the kaiju they really are.
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lerneanlion
If the Elasmotherium did not go extinct and have encounters with the locals in the areas, especially in Europe, will they still think unicorns are something to be admired?
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If the Elasmotherium did not go extinct and have encounters with the locals in the areas, especially in Europe, will they still think unicorns are something to be admired?
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Jon
One of my favorite lines from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was Richard Burton's speech about he and Martha's son! .the apple of our three eyes. Martha being a cyclops! Hahaha!
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One of my favorite lines from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf was Richard Burton's speech about he and Martha's son! .the apple of our three eyes. Martha being a cyclops! Hahaha!
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SMDoktorPepper
Whats even weirder, despite the plethora of evidence against the supernatural, people CONTINUE to believe these mythological monsters exist.
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Whats even weirder, despite the plethora of evidence against the supernatural, people CONTINUE to believe these mythological monsters exist.
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Oonagh72
The vampire one makes sense because vampire can t cross running water and rabies victims have a fear of water. So that makes a lot of sense.
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The vampire one makes sense because vampire can t cross running water and rabies victims have a fear of water. So that makes a lot of sense.
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