# Gershon, ‘A Natural History of Dragons’, 2022 > [!cite] > Gershon, Livia. ‘A Natural History of Dragons’. *JSTOR Daily*, 3 October 2022, https://daily.jstor.org/a-natural-history-of-dragons/. > [!abstract] > Dragons began life as snakes, but natural historians gradually began describing them in more fantastical ways.