I always like it when the professional crazies weigh in.
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Well, yes. You find a sharp tooth that's as long as someone's finger you're going to make up some kind of creature for it to have come from.
Okay, yes. But also: dragons originated from pre-radiation Africa. Every culture has it because they all had distant contact with that one.
Iirc, it's thought that the original dragon was a flying feathered serpent and also a storm god.
Edit: sorry I was falling asleep and high while writing this.
Edit2: okay, I'm sober and awake now, so I guess I should revise my statement a bit. It is my amateur understanding, as a nerd who is not in any way a scholar of mythology, that there is a theory for the origin of mythological creatures known as dragons. I cannot attest to how well-founded this model is, but I believe it goes as such: a human culture, in Africa, existed prior to homosapiens leaving the continent. This culture is believed to have had storm deity that was a feathered serpent, and that deity was the basis of all dragon myths held by cultures that left the continent and the descendants thereof.
Can you share some source about that? Would like to read more about it
Unfortunately, I'm not a mythillogical scholar, so I'll just link the nerd I listen to sometimes https://youtu.be/cwDPt1E4_Cg
I think this is the right one, but I need to get back to sleep.