It is easy to imagine how people without benefit of modern paleontology might have put together a dinosaur skeleton and made conjectures as to its basic shape. And it wouldn't have been too big a leap to connect it to their image of a dragon.
可見人們在沒有現代古生物學知識的背景下，也可以憑著一架大致完整的恐龍化石試圖還其原形，而與龍的意象附會串連。