Science of Dragons

[kinerinninja1]

Do you believe that dragons used to exsisted I have a theroy of my own and would like to hear others.
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Well people all across the world have in their culture depictions of Dragons or Dragon like creatures now these people have been seperated by thousands of miles of ocean and seas. Now how could it be that these people think of the same animals all across the world there is only 2 explenation one the creatures exsist or they see dinosaur bones and think that they are fresh and came off of a gian monster that died.................what do u think

[Epically_Kalashed]

There are also many different stories about vampires from around the world, so vampires are real too?

[whateverfloats]

Most likely dinosaur bones are the origin of the dragon...or else ancient people just came up with the idea of dragons sans bones.

[Layra-chan]

Most "dragon" stories actually differ quite wildly. A Chinese "dragon" looks nothing like a European dragon other than being large and reptilian, and both look very little like the Mayan Kukulcan. The reason that many different cultures appear to all have "dragons" is that Westerners are bad at anthropology.

[Elden Andel]

On this little spark of life called earth I think any life form might me possible. ANd to the comment above me, they could differ because they are from different climates, envoerments, and have different prey. Kinda like how birds are differnet form region to region.

[RadionStorm]

Elden Andel

On this little spark of life called earth I think any life form might me possible. ANd to the comment above me, they could differ because they are from different climates, envoerments, and have different prey. Kinda like how birds are differnet form region to region.

I lol'd.

[Celes_29]

whateverfloats

Most likely dinosaur bones are the origin of the dragon...or else ancient people just came up with the idea of dragons sans bones.

yup yup

[Golden Dysprosium]

Elden Andel

On this little spark of life called earth I think any life form might me possible. ANd to the comment above me, they could differ because they are from different climates, envoerments, and have different prey. Kinda like how birds are differnet form region to region.

You do realise that if fire-breathing dragons existed, they'd be the dominant creatures on earth, right? A 5-ton flying reptile that sprays napalm from it's mouth isn't going to have much trouble with little monkeys with sharpened sticks. A little known fact is that humans weren't always on top of the food chain.

[kinerinninja1]

true.....but maybe they where the cause of the k-2 extinction

[dragonmatt5]

Golden Dysprosium

Elden Andel

On this little spark of life called earth I think any life form might me possible. ANd to the comment above me, they could differ because they are from different climates, envoerments, and have different prey. Kinda like how birds are differnet form region to region.

You do realise that if fire-breathing dragons existed, they'd be the dominant creatures on earth, right? A 5-ton flying reptile that sprays napalm from it's mouth isn't going to have much trouble with little monkeys with sharpened sticks. A little known fact is that humans weren't always on top of the food chain.

true, though I imagine that if such a creature existed, it wouldn't have been airborne at all. A creature that big would need a strong, thick skeleton just to hold it's weight up. A creature that large would have trouble standing due to the shear weight of itself. Looking at large modern animals and their skeletons, to think a creature as large as a midevil dragon could have existed and flown would be as silly as saying an elephant could use it's ears to fly.

the napalm, well, maybe...Still the organs for that too would weigh the thing down even more.

[rockmanx]

kinerinninja1

Do you believe that dragons used to exsisted I have a theroy of my own and would like to hear others.
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Well people all across the world have in their culture depictions of Dragons or Dragon like creatures now these people have been seperated by thousands of miles of ocean and seas. Now how could it be that these people think of the same animals all across the world there is only 2 explenation one the creatures exsist or they see dinosaur bones and think that they are fresh and came off of a gian monster that died.................what do u think

I saw the things on Dragons may have come from Dino bones. That is understable. How long was it before they realize they had the T-rex sekleton wrong?

[candid silence]

i think it may be possible, but improbable. they might just be dramatized animals like lizards or snakes. also, there have never been any recordings of these dragons as anything but legendary. if they did exist at one time, i think they would be depicted like how saber-toothed tigers were in caveman paintings. not as a single almighty god.

[Golden Dysprosium]

dragonmatt5

true, though I imagine that if such a creature existed, it wouldn't have been airborne at all. A creature that big would need a strong, thick skeleton just to hold it's weight up. A creature that large would have trouble standing due to the shear weight of itself. Looking at large modern animals and their skeletons, to think a creature as large as a midevil dragon could have existed and flown would be as silly as saying an elephant could use it's ears to fly.
the napalm, well, maybe...Still the organs for that too would weigh the thing down even more.

Quetzalcoatlus was pretty big. 10m wingspan, though the other Pterosaurs were pretty freakin' scary too.

[Pyromaster The Giant]

I think they still exist but they are just not in the things we are looking at

[dragonmatt5]

Golden Dysprosium

dragonmatt5

true, though I imagine that if such a creature existed, it wouldn't have been airborne at all. A creature that big would need a strong, thick skeleton just to hold it's weight up. A creature that large would have trouble standing due to the shear weight of itself. Looking at large modern animals and their skeletons, to think a creature as large as a midevil dragon could have existed and flown would be as silly as saying an elephant could use it's ears to fly.
the napalm, well, maybe...Still the organs for that too would weigh the thing down even more.

Quetzalcoatlus was pretty big. 10m wingspan, though the other Pterosaurs were pretty freakin' scary too.

true that is rather large. However this is what I ment when I said midevil dragon

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/MM35_gallery/MM35_PG76.jpg

(best one I found with a human for scale reference)

The full body (wings, large arms, etc.) at that scale would weight too much to get airborn.
I doubt it would even be able to stand...