I Believe in Dragons!

 

I believe in dragons.

I always have. They had to have existed, for why else would they be spoken of to children who are barely out of nappies. And why does every child instinctively understand their shape and form as if  dragons are as simple to understand as breathing, but just like breathing their presence hadn’t been noticed before.

They had to be the remnants of ancient dinosaurs.

Which means that I believe dinosaurs and humans co-existed.

This was of course very bad news for the dinosaurs, especially for the ones that laid eggs. For we all know how keen humans are on eggs.

Just think how easy it would be to drive a creature to extinction simply by eating all their eggs!

It happened in New Zealand when the first tribes in that land (not many people)  hunted the moa to extinction. No doubt the bird’s demise was also hastened by clever observation of the its nesting habits and then the subsequent thieving of their eggs.

How much easier it would have been for more ancient peoples to dine upon dinosaur eggs rather than risk breaking their teeth on tough dinosaur hide.

Eat all the eggs, and all the dinosaurs in that region within a generation become extinct and the fire breathing menace is gone. Egg eating was probably the first effective pest control activity our ancestors ever used.

Dragon eggs no doubt were equally tasty.

You wouldn’t need a comet to collide with the earth, or even a volcanic winter to drive these great beasts towards their demise, just a few omelette loving humans armed with a frying pan would be enough.

So the next time you mention dragons to a child pause a moment, observe if they lick their lips. Then ask them exactly how they’d like their eggs.

 

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