Viral Message: The Viral message claims The first Welsh Dragon born in over 500 years has been successfully hatched at Bangor University. Scientists managed to clone the Welsh Dragon after finding blood within mosquitoes that had been fossilized in amber.

eMessage on – Social media and internet

Fact Check by Ayupp Fake

Viral message example-   

The first Welsh Dragon born in over 500 years has been successfully hatched at Bangor University.

Scientists managed to clone the Welsh Dragon after finding blood within mosquitoes that had been fossilized in amber. They then used the DNA from the dragon blood to complete the cloning process.

Scientists managed to clone the Welsh Dragon after finding blood within mosquitoes that had been fossilized in amber. They then used the DNA from the dragon blood to complete the cloning process.

“The Dragon was born at 00:01hrs this morning, 1st April, as far as we can tell, he appears to be a healthy Welsh Dragon and we‘ve called him Dewi, he is likely to develop his full red colouring on maturity, in about 250 years.”

Viral Message Verification:-  The article was published with title Welsh Dragon successfully hatched at Bangor University on April 1, 2018 by a website thebangoraye and was a instant hit and has been widely shared across the social media, however just looking into some basic thing about the article you will find it is fake and not real (archived here)..

The article got a lot of reaction; it got more than 141329 shares on the facebook and huge reaction on other social media, many people were really curious to know the fact.   

After reading the second paragraph of the article I hope you all remember the 1993 movie Jurassic Park. The article is build upon the script of the movie, rest you can watch the movie for all the proper script.

The Welsh Dragon appears on the national flag of Wales. The oldest recorded use of the dragon to symbolise Wales is in the Historia Brittonum, Written around AD 829.

About The Author

Chetan Sharma is an Indian fact-checker and news writer, writing news for Ayupp since 2014.

You Might Be Interested In

Latest On Ayupp.com