The image of the Chinese dragon, an animal of legend, originated from totem poles. Legend has it that many tribes settled along the Yellow River about 4,000 years ago, each having its own totem ...

Pieced together, these disparate physical features yield an illustrious creature of Chinese legend: the dragon. Believed to ...

It recovered enough to cross the line behind the ox and so comes in at number three in the Chinese zodiac. Image caption, The dragon isn't so fearsome as legend suggests. Next up was the rabbit.

The skeletal remains of dinosaurs and other gargantuan prehistoric animals could have spawned the legends ... Chinese used animal fossils as medicine, referring to such bones as long gu, or ...