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I assume the global mythology around dragons comes from finding dinosaur bones

Seems like many bones would do. Whales would be a lot more common i imagine.

Well, eastern dragons always reminded me more of a giant oarfish. And some central europe dragons weren't that far off, being described as flying snakes.

I think "every culture has a dragon" is kinda misleading.

"Every culture has a creature that got translated as a dragon" seems closer to the truth. The creatures themselves have a great variety between them.

Ancient Greeks were finding skulls of dwarf elephants during masonry works and quarrying in Sicily.

Wasn't that later debunked though?

You mean about there being no Cyclopes? They got to you too, huh?