What is it about turtles that make humans go "but what if big?"
Dragon turtles, world turtles, genbu, the black turtle of the North, Gamera. Why big turtles?
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Because we have found huge species of prehistoric turtle fossils. Throughout history humans have come across fossils and created myths based on these discoveries. I assume dragons were based on dinosaur bones and so forth.
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Thank you, scholar. How do you explain that for millenia, people have looked at hedghehogs and thought "be sick if this was faster"?
Example A from the Middle Elamite Period (~1300 BC) in what is now Iran
Example B from the eternal 70s in what is still Japan as of time of writing