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Episode 18·11 min

Where Dragons Really Come From

At a museum, a kid asks why so many faraway countries all invented dragons. The answer is real: giant Komodo dragons, huge dinosaur and whale fossils that ancient people thought were dragon bones, the bombardier beetle that really does shoot a hot spray, and how different cultures pictured their dragons differently. Real zoology, paleontology, and how a myth gets made.

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