Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones Owen, Richard. Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World. (London: Euston Grove Press 2010): 11. Hawkins' Ichthyosaurus chiropolyostinus which was excavated in the autumn of 1833, from T Hawkins, 'Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, extinct monsters of the ancient earth...', (1834). GSL Library collections Louise W. Lippincott. “The Unnatural History of Dragons” Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 77, no. 334. 1981. 4. Accompanying Miss Anning the next morning on the beach, she pointed out to me the place whence it was brought. Persuaded that the other portion of the skeleton must be there, I advised its extraction, if it were possible, but Miss Anning had so little faith in my opinion, that she assured me I was at liberty to examine its propriety or otherwise myself. Hereupon I waited upon Mr Edwards, the owner of the land, and requested permission to throw down as much of the cliff as was necessary for such intention, which he very handsomely allowed me to do."FromThomas Hawkins, 'Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, extinct monsters of the ancient earth...', (1834).

Morote, Magán Pascuala. “Las leyendas y su valor didáctico.” In XL Congreso, vol. 400. 2016. (391–403) Man is a species suffering from amnesia, it has forgotten entirely the food chain and that it was not always placed atop it. The dragon represents the vague memory of the innate fear of our ancestors. The mouse fears the cat because it is it’s prey so to were our ancestors once prey when all of humankind faced off against the crocodile for survival. If man was to survive it had to drink water, whether it be from a river, or lake the crocodile waited for him. Man did not know which day would be his last, only that death waited for him, and that on the day of its choosing the writhing terror would swallow him and drag him into the abyss. Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe, and on the Changes They Produced in the Animal Kingdom] Edwards, Ruth B., Kadmos the Phoenician: A Study in Greek Legends and the Mycenean Age. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 1979.Hamish Campbell. “Crocodiles Ride Ocean Currents to Travel the High Seas.” University of Queensland News, June 2010 . https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2010/06/crocodiles-ride-ocean-currents-travel-high-seas The accounts of crocodiles identified as dragons do not end in the ancient era. Marco Polo in his 13th century travels east, mentions seeing dragons in China. He describes them as ferocious beasts, ten paces in length, living in the river. [39] In the following century, Sir John Mandeville, traveling through Arabia, described that country as “full of dragounes and grete serpentes.” [40] In Crete an ancient Minoan tomb sealstone was found depicting two dragons, which appear, in fact, to be crocodiles. [41] In an illuminated manuscript from the 15th century, Saint George is depicted as slaying a crocodile. [42] In a manuscript of “Saint Margaret and the Dragon” from 1480, the beast is also a crocodilian dragon. [43]

John Anderson, George Boulenger and William de Winton. Zoology of Egypt. London: Quaritch Publishing, 1898. Noted geologists and popular science writers crafted engaging narratives about our newly discovered past, sharing and debating controversial ideas like extinction and an earth once dominated by reptiles. Louise W. Lippincott. “The Unnatural History of Dragons ” Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 77, no. 334. 1981. 4. Raziye Akkoc, “Bristol Crocodile could survive British waters, Experts say.” The Telegraph, (June 26, 2014) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10928244/Bristol-crocodile-could-survive-British-waters-experts-say.html Adrienne Mayor. The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2000. 35.Campbell, Hamish., “Crocodiles Ride Ocean Currents to Travel the High Seas.” University of Queensland News, June 2010. https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2010/06/crocodiles-ride-ocean-currents-travel-high-seas if Mr Hawkins has set the last specimen if Icht platydon as it lay in the cliff it will be a most magnificent specimen, but he is schuch an enthusiast that he makes things as he images the[y] ought to be; and not as they are really found, the platydon that I in part gave him was to large for my poverty & I would have not have trusted to his making up, though very much broken it might be made a splendid thing without any addition.”Extract from letter fromMary Anning to Charlotte Murchison, 11 October [?1833]. Archive ref: LDGSL/838/A/7/3. Old Town Hall of Brno, Brno Tourist Informations. Retrieved May 1, 2018. http://www.brnoinfo.com/old-town-hall/ Herodotus, Robin Waterfield, and Carolyn Dewald. The Histories. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Smith, Helena. “World’s Greatest Crocodile Hunters Fails to Catch ‘Sifis’ Crete’s Fugitive Reptile.” The Guardian. September 2, 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/02/crocodile-hunter-olivier-behra-fails-catch-sifis-crete-rethymnon