Do you secretly want to be Daenarys Targaryen, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons?
Well, then the first step would be getting a dragon.
If you want a Viserion, Rhaegal, or Drogon of your own, then maybe you should start hunting around for some petrified Pelagornis sandersi eggs—the Pelagornis sandersi being a newly-named species of extinct bird that its own researchers have admitted is shockingly like a dragon from Game of Thrones.
This bird may not have actually been a dragon (sadly for us all), but according to Daniel Ksepka, who researched the species at North Carolina State University’s National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, it’s “more like a dragon out of that ‘Game of Thrones’ show than anything alive today.”
According to the details about the newly-named species that have been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the Pelagornis sandersi had a wingspan of approximately 20 feet, double the size of a modern albatross, or around the size of some of our earliest fighter planes. This makes Ksepka’s ancient bird, fossils of which were originally discovered in the 1980s during construction for a Charleston airport, pretty much the biggest bird in Earth’s history.
It no doubt would have cast an extremely large shadow on any of its prehistoric game. Ksepka’s paper also says the Pelagornis sandersi species would have been amazing gliders, birds capable of coasting for very long distances. Take a look at the fossils:
His paper does not mention whether or not the birds could breathe fire, though as they lived 25 million years ago, there’s no way he can prove they didn’t breathe fire.
Logical fallacies for the win.
Source CNET
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