Dave Hone

You only find them when you start digging for coal mines, which we weren't doing in... Is it basically dramatization of, like, of snakes and lizards and stuff like this?

Yeah, and just general exaggeration and welding stuff together.

I mean, that's one thing you could, I guess, potentially argue is that

Yeah, we find tyrannosaurs in North America and in East Asia.

In fact, there's a whole bunch of stuff in the end Cretaceous, which is often very common because it's a relatively recent in the grand scheme of things in the history of the world.

The fauna of East Asia, China, Mongolia, Eastern Russia is very similar to what you get in Canada and the USA and down in Mexico.

And so you find the same rough stuff.

They're not exactly the same, but you get ceratopsians, you get tyrannosaurs, you get the big-edged dark pterosaurs, you get ankylosaurs, the armored ones, this, that, and the other.

So if these were influencing all those different cultures, why don't Chinese dragons look like Mexican dragons or equivalent of Thunderbirds or whatever?

Well, because it probably wasn't influencing them.

If they were all seeing the same skeleton, they'd probably all produce the same kind of mythical animals.

Yeah, I mean, if you dredged up a colossal squid, I think you'd have.

Yeah.

Or even just dugongs and manatees.

I mean, they're...

Several times I've pitched a book to publishers where I want to write a book that basically makes the point that there is...

Almost nothing.

I mean, you can always dream up something totally ludicrous.

There is basically nothing in science fiction that doesn't already exist on Earth in some way, shape, or form.

Yeah, I think people would be stunned about some of the weird stuff that's out there that they just wouldn't realize are real.