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The STEMazing story reported on April 1st should have caused a bit of skepticism: <\/span><\/p>\n

“In 2003, a resident of Oxfordshire, England announced that he had found a jar containing a specimen of a baby dragon. He said the jar had been stored in the garage for over a 100 years. The dragon had incredible detail: Tiny teeth lined the lizard-like head, and the wings, tail and an umbilical cord were well preserved. It had been offered to the British Natural History Museum in 1890, but it was lost and\/or hidden from the public. The discoverer\u2019s grandfather had rescued the specimen from a museum crate that was slated for disposal.\u00a0 <\/span>For the rest of the story, see the web link.”<\/span><\/p>\n

We learn from the person who found the specimen in his garage that the grandfather said it was imported from scientists in Germany. Digging a bit further, the grandfather said that the British scientists rejected the specimen because they thought the Germans were tying to “punk” them.\u00a0 So, it was planned for the rubbish heap.<\/p>\n

Digging a little further, it turns out the whole story of the Germans and the British Museum was an invented tale that embellished the story. Most importantly, the dragon was actually a model made by a BBC TV studio for a series on dinosaurs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yes, it’s a hoax.\u00a0 Be careful what you hear on April Fools Day! (Any day, really!)<\/p>\n

Source at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.monstropedia.org\/index.php?title=Pickled_dragon<\/a><\/p>\n

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