Here be dragons… but why do cultures everywhere imagine the same giant serpent? Discover how evolution, migration, and geology forged humanity’s oldest monster.From hardwired snake detection to fire-breathing gas vents, we unpack the science behind dragons you’ve always felt.Our journey traces the dragon back to a primal serpent: a creature our eyes evolved to spot in an instant, a fear our stories magnified, and a myth the Earth itself “confirmed” with fossils and flames. From Greek chimaeras and Turkish fire hills to Chinese “dragon bones,” see how one serpent became many dragons—yet stayed strangely the same.