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The fossils were always turning up, paleontology just didn't really take off until then.
I'm sure that's true - I wonder how early the earliest fossil of a dinosaur was actually unearthed, and if people even had an inkling what it meant.
People had good guesses millennia ago, but they also sometimes thought they were dragons
To me the fact that they belong to dinosaurs is almost as fantastic and awesome as if they DID belong to dragons. I've always found dinosaurs to be kind of hard to accept as a reality, especially when you stand next to those gigantic bones or visit a display of animatronic ones and realize, "these things once were actually real and alive."
How is it harder to accept the closer you are to evidence?
But yeah, dinosaurs were basically dragons, just with worse luck.
Here be dragons.