Beast Legends
Season One, Episode Two, Fire Dragon
Original Air Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
In the second installment of the Beast Legends series, the team sets out to create the fire dragon. Kathryn, Mike and Scott are in the lab researching the dragon legends. The Polish legend of Smok the Dragon is their starting point. They next look over images of dragons from all over the world and find they all typically have wings and fire breathing in common.
Steve and Francis start in southern Poland on their search for information about the fire dragon. They are in Krakow, Poland looking for the bones of Smok the Dragon at Wawel Castle. They see the bones that have hung on the cathedral wall for centuries. What has been believed to be the rib bone of the dragon Steve identifies to be the jaw bone from a whale. The skull, Steve identifies as that of a rhino, possibly even an Ice Age woolly rhino. The large thigh bone: an elephant or mammoth.
They get in out of the rain where Francis begins his sketching. Using the measurements of the bones at the cathedral, the sketch shapes up to look more like an "overweight dragon" than the fearsome beasts of mythology we've all come to know. Even once the dragon is on the computer, it still doesn't look the least bit fearsome thanks to its roly-poly belly.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
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