| Nov 8, 2009 |
you can say dragons don't exist b/c you've never seen one, but then have you ever seen gravity?
I don't think there were any like that. There were probably things that might've resembled it, but no, it wasn't still. I think the only dragon we call one today is the komodo dragon. Which isn't one at all because it doesn't even begin to fit the description of a made up dragon, except they both breathed. If there were dragons though, I don't think those poor knights would really stand a chance against them XD haha, really though, it's folks tales or fables, or whatever you want to call them that aren't real but made up stories.
i dont know, maybe you are wrong, but it is the chinese's main animal symbol! so i think its true!
the chinese do lots of festivals and rituals and dance relating to dragons !
Well,
Personally I don't believe in dragons either the eastern, or western types as being real, at least not as portrayed in mythology. The dinosaur idea is a certainly a possibility. It does in part fit with the concept of dragons. Here's another interesting fact, the Bible refers to several dragons, including the great dragon, satan the devil. And it refers to dragons that were worshipped in earlier religions, especially in Babylon. -YB 
I`m realy a "Prove it!!" kinda guy.
Unless they have real/realistic evidence that these creatures have existed (for example bones/skeletons) I `ll say they`re just fiction!!
A lot of christians believe that a few dinosaurs survived to a time in history a lot more recently than when they supposedly became extinct. Well I hardly buy into their ridiculous 6000 year timetable but as for the dinosaurs what could be more reasonable. Why should they all die at once. Every living thing struggles to survive. It only natural that a few may have survived. After all we have been wrong before, remember the Coelecanth (oops guess they were not extinct after all).
What most people fail to realize about the fossil record is that the process captures records only occasionally and therfore tends to represent only the largest populations. Small populations struggling on the brink of extinction tend to get overlooked. It is in these small populations where evolution moves most rapidly, because large populations are too genetically stable. Thus it is perfectly expected to see gaps in the fossil record as we do.
I'm sure that at one point in time that Dragons, at on time, existed not just in folklore and ledgend but also in reality.
Much like the Dinosaur the Dragon just becam extinct due to drastic climate change and the encroshment of man and civilization. I think I did see somewhere that they managed to find an intact, preserved Fossil of a dragon to study didn't they, or it might have just been a creature that resembled a Dragon, but then again they have managed to find prefectly preserved fossils of Dinosaurs as well. a) They're too big too fly. They're (going on common mythology) bigger than any living flying animal or any flying animal that ever lived, including dinosaurs and pterosaurs. They're have alot of trouble getting airborne   Breathing fire? Could have been caused by hydrogen however with hydrogen you need an ignition - it won't just go up in flames by it's self. The is also the problem with blowing themselves up, or setting themselves alight. So they would have had trouble breathing fire.Is a dragon a dragon if it can't fly or breath fire?  No dragon remains have been accepted by the larger scientific community (only mad scientists). Show me a living, flying, fire breathing dragon and you make make a believer of me yet!
As I see it dragons have never existed. When you say, that ancient people reports sightings of dragons I think they mean a dinosaur.
But not a living dinosaur! What they saw were the fossils of dinosaurs. They probably saw enormous skeletons – skulls at the size of men. And they told these things to the people in the village they lived in. Over time these stories had travelled a long way and as we know from today’s world, the stories gets better and better the more people telling it. Someone probably said that they were still alive, then somebody said they could fly etc. And in a few hundreds years they were written into the myths. At least, that’s my opinion.
Personally I think that dragons do exist. I mean people only don't believe in dragons because they are mostly put into fair tales are presumed make-believe by most people. But really, if you think about it, there is no reason why dragons wouldn't exist. They could live in any part of the world and people wouldn't just make up that they've seen one, would they?
Latest Entriesyou can say dragons don't exist b/c you've never seen one, but then have you ever seen gravity?
jey sorry but i dun think so that they really exist
because in discovery they just predict and not sure and also i have never seen dragons yet....... LOL I second that @Norm35 ... Nomatter how much time I myself read, did my own research about the dragons and did they really do existed but up to this date...Nothing can really prove they really do exist...They even mentioned on animal planet, that the story on "dragons" were actually "made up" ...How'd I wish dragon did really existed... Sad.. Animal Planet: Did dragons really exist? If so, did they really fly and Breathe fire? Dr. Peter J. Hogarth is a biologist who has explored these very Questions through years of research. Chat with Dr. Hogarth about your dragon Speculations, and ask about the history and habits of the dragons in the Animal Planet special Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. Dr. Hogarth: I'm glad to be here. I hope you enjoyed the show, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about dragons. Togusa: Now is this show based on actual evidence or is it being Used to entice our imaginations?Dr. Hogarth: Well, we did title it Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. It's really to stimulate the imagination. We ask if they really did exist, how would they fly, how would they live. It's Based on real animals, but it's really just a fantasy. cmdragons: Is it possible that dragon remains will ever be Found? Dr. Hogarth: It would be nice to think they would be found. I Know people believe in dragons, but I don't think they ever existed, and so I Don't think remains will ever be found. There are remains of extinct animals Like dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and so there are people who think there may be Remains of dragons but, great pity, I don't think we'll ever find a dragon. Found at http://animal.Discovery.Com/convergence/dragons/expert/chat.Html
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One of the most common, and certainly the most debatable question in circulation over dragons is, "do they exist?". Despite being repeatedly asked, a satisfactory conclusion has never really been offered. The reason is primarily because everyone has a different viewpoint on dragon existence, and due to the controversial nature of the topic, we have so far only really been faced with contradiction. To date, theories regarding dragon existence have ranged from a physical, literal presence; the idea that dragons used to roam the earth but were wiped out by chivalrous knights or human advances. Others believe that dragons are little more than a mixture of the untamed forces of nature and human imagination, or that dragons exist on the astral plane, or that they have found their home in our imaginations.However, this is more likely to be a cultural similarity [the forehead is a very generic area], rather than anything to do with the dragons themselves.)
Also, when we really look at the "dragons" of the ancient world, we see that they are in fact little more than modified serpents; such as Quetzalcoatl (or Kukulkan the "Plumed Serpent"), Jormungand or the Mother Serpent. Not only this, but classing some creatures under the dragon title is subjective because the term is not inclusive. This is not to say that dragons themselves could never have existed, it merely means the logic that dragons must have existed "because they are found all over the world" isn't accurate. If we concentrate on the idea that dragons physically, in their most literal sense did once roam the world (and that's why they feature so regularly in mythology and folklore), then we can instead take a look at why they no longer co-exist with us. There are two standing theories detailing their disappearance or exinction, and they both focus on human intervention |
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