Original Airdate: January 15, 2019

Some small, magical corner of your heart wants dragons to be real, right? Well... sorry. They’re not. But this week, we wanted to celebrate some science adjacent to dragons, from fruit and animals named after them to giant flying predators that probably terrified humans.

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[Truth or Fail]

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/201503...

http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/field...

[Fact Off]

Fire Hawks:

Haast’s Eagles:

[Ask the Science Couch]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...

[Butt One More Thing]

https://www.wired.com/2013/12/the-sec...