do you believe dragons existed?

I think that if dragons had existed we would have found some fossils by now. The myths of dragons were probably a result of ancient civilisations unearthing the fossils of pterodactyl and other large flying dinosaurs and forming their own conclusions about what such creatures were, due to their probably very limited and probably non-existent knowledge of dinosaurs and evolution.

I don't see why there couldn't have been animals back then that aren't here now. 99% of all species that existed are now extinct. There is no way to excavate all of the earth to find their bones (if they left them).
Human mythology and history gets distorted with each telling. Oral traditions that were transcribed later can't be held as complete truths, but they most likely started with a grain of truth.

I wouldn't necessarily say that there were dragons as depicted by ancient cultures, however I don't find it out of the scope of believability that there were massive animals, possibly even lizards...we still see remnants of the age of dinosaurs, so why couldn't they have seen something similar?

Humans haven't been around very long.

If there were ever dragons, we'd know.

I agree with you jonnythan. If dragons had ever existed we would have found fossils by now, espcially since they would have existed alongside humans, hence after the last ice age, if they had ever existed.

I get the feeling that one day back in early history a guy went wandering off and perhaps ate some mushrooms he shouldnt have. After three days of running around the woods naked he ran back to his village and told everyone about this amazing dragon who breathed fire and how he managed to slay the beast and then was regarded a hero - he pulled a homer.

well if you dig into many of the roots of dragons. oriental I guess. they weren't described as giant serpents or winged beasts that we know of now. according to a university professor back in my religion class he showed us an ancient Chinese text describing a dragon. which was the size of a regular lizard and as large as any monitor lizard.
I will google this. I'm sure if anyone does they will most likely find something to those effects.
I don't know much about the European Dragons though. maybe the guy in Europe was on Mushrooms and thought he saw something that wasn't there.

i do beleive dragons existed at one point. i beleive that they once lived all around the earth.....and humans have found their skeletons all around. i beleive their skeletons are what we consider to be dinosaurs and they once roamed the earth.

I believe anythings possible.
So its fun to believe that dragons existed, but also fun as a myth.
I'm gonna say there was such thing a flying/gliding giant lizard soaring the skies but it probably didnt breathe fire.

First off the only thing different about just about any depiction of a dragon is the style in which they are drawn. Though chinese dragons differ in appearance from european dragons they all have four legs, they all have scales, both types have dragons with or without horns, both with and without wings. There are many of the same parts they just look different.


As to weather or not they acctually exist I saw a documentary on bigfoot where the argument was there would eventually be some remains if there acctually was a bigfoot. So they did and experiment and put a dear out on the ground in the middle of the woods. The "expert" they hired said the remains would probably be there for a month or so and they put up a time lapse camera preparing for that. Within two days the carcass had been eaten by bugs and animals and even the bones had been dragged off until there was no sign of the thing at all. So who knows if they really existed but the fact that there have been flying reptiles we are aware of in our history as well as very large ones I wouldnt say its impossible.








I dont know how many spieces there are but I know there is a beatle that shoots fire out of the back of its abdomen as a defense mechanism. It somehow mixes two chemicals and creates a tiny fireball. Its pretty cool.

you're half right.
the Bombardier beetle stores two chemicals (hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide) and when threatened the beetle mixes these chemicals along with a catalyst, to produce a very hot liquid, which is squirted out the back of the beetle.

beetle


but theres no fire involved.