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I hear ya, its just unfortunate, but come on, a giant rideable millipede? Id trade my zero in less than that many seconds

I think it'd be cool..

..but practicality ran the horse out from that role.

Compared to your zero the millipede would have... outputs.

It does make you wonder if the near ubiquitous dragon myth originated from megafauna hunts.

I thought it was dinosaur fossils

Isn't discovery of giant dinosaur fossils common before the Renaissance?

there are other theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_(book)

I have a hard time believing the disappearing of the mega fauna is solely due to homo sapiens: if it was the case there should be a few pockets of them remaining in the world.

For example in western Europe bears were hunted to extinction before the middle ages, but you can still find bears in Russia and in the US.

And why would you think we would like to resurect them ? (sorry for considering myself part of the species H. Sapiens) We killed them on purpose.