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On 1 April 2017, a video purporting to show the skeleton of a dragon that was discovered in northern Iceland was posted to the Facebook page for MoviePilot.com: The images of the dragon skeleton displayed in this video were actually taken from a 2004 fantasy docudrama called Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. Here is a comparison of one of the images featured in the April Fool's Day joke (right) with a still from this alternative history docudrama (left): The mockumentary, which can also be found under the title The Last Dragon, was aired on educational channels such as Animal Planet, and has been causing confusion about the existence of dragon's since its release. The New York Times compared the film to Orson Welles' War of the Worlds for its potential to fool people: A similar mockumentary about the discovery of a mermaid was also aired on Animal Planet in 2012. On the dragon beat, we have also investigated reports that the mythical creatures fell from the sky in Tibet, were killed in Malaysia, and that baby dragons are real and enjoy resting on peoples' fingers. None of those reports, sadly, were legitimate.
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