There are two main types of dragons described in the document. Western dragons are large, fire-breathing beasts with wings and scales that live in caves and mountains and prey on humans. Eastern dragons are much smaller, have horns instead of wings, and are friendly towards humans. While dragons are mythological creatures found in many cultures' stories, some evidence suggests that ancient discoveries of dinosaur fossils may have inspired dragon myths as people tried to understand the large bones they uncovered.

2. FACTS!!!!!
• Dragons deserve a category all their own because they are beasts
found all over the world. But there are two distinct types of dragon:
the dragon of the Western world and the dragon of the Eastern
world.

3. Western Dragons
• These enormous, fire-breathing serpents have scaly green bodies and
huge red wings. Greedy creatures, they hoard gold treasure in dens
under the earth. Fierce and always hungry, a Western dragon will eat
anything but especially likes weak, young, human flesh. Dragons live
in caves, mountains, or lakes. They were particularly active in the
Middle Ages, when brave knights challenged them to battle.

4. Eastern Dragons
• Compared to Western dragons, these beasts are quite small. Their
bodies are long, and they have two horns for ears. They have no
wings, and their soft breath is said to form clouds. They do not roar;
instead they make the sounds of beating gongs and jingling bells.
Chinese dragons dine on sparrows. They live wherever there is water.
They are kind and wise friends of human beings.

5. Are dragons real ?
• Dragons are among the most popular and enduring of the world's
mythological creatures. Dragon tales are known in many cultures, from the
Americas to Europe to India to China. Some have suggested that because
dragons are known around the world, they really existed at some point in
the distant past — otherwise how could different cultures on different
continents describe the same thing?
• It's not clear when or where stories of dragons first emerged, but the huge,
flying serpents were described by the ancient Greeks and Sumerians. The
belief in dragons was based not just in legend but also in hard evidence —
or so it seemed. For millennia no one knew what to make of the giant
bones that were occasionally unearthed around the globe, and dragons
seemed a logical choice for people who had no knowledge of dinosaurs.

6. Is there some truth to Dragon Myths?
• Adrienne Mayor, a Stanford visiting scholar, has found solid links
between certain dinosaur fossils and dragons—enough information,
in fact, for her to write three books on the subject. Mayor was
consulted in 2008 by the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, which
built a dragon exhibit that presented some of her research.
• Legends of dragons have existed throughout the world and across
many, if not all, ancient cultures. Mayor believes that these tales
emerged from ancient imaginings of what fossil dinosaurs would have
looked like in life. In her view, if ancient people had unearthed a fossil
that looked like Dracorex hogwartsia, it is easy to speculate that they
would have come up with dragon stories to explain it.

7. The End