There is a poll on do you believe is dragons. Well, I do believe they once existed.
Should it be a study of mythology or paleotology? I have several theories on this and would love to hear some others.
First off. too many cultures from too many geographical locations have dragons in their legends and lore. These stories started before the trade route from Europe and China opened up.
I believe that dragons were some species of dinosaurs that had survived: just like crocs or sharks. They were probably hunted into extiction. Just look at what we've done to the Tazmanian Tiger.
The word dinosaur means "terrible lizard". 200 years ago, people would have never believed that dinosaurs ever existed.
One question that nags me is, what about the bones. Do you think that the bones were used for types of relics. Is that why none have been found? I don't think dragons flew or breathed fire.
If you have any info. let me hear it. What are your thoughtsl

Dragons could have existed, but not breathed fire. I think that there would have been more evidence of them if they were real, but they could have been a type of dinosaur i suppose. You should look at

http://www.dragonsarecoming.com it is a new show, but if you look closely, has some facts on whether dragons really existed.

Just big lizards...

Considering their existance in so many cultures, it is probable that they could have existed. Possibly, dragons were the dinosoars. I mean, isn't it possible that they all might have imagined them breathing fire? Or for all we know, they exhaled one of the many gasses that react with oxygen, and *did* breathe fire. All we have is bones, as far as I know; untill we find one's respiratory system, I am not crossing out the possibility.
But personally, I agree. Of the ancient cultures, too many have near identical myths. If it was a culture like the eldest members of an african, polytheistic church, I could understand. But these were, for then, civilized cultures, and the patterns are unlikely. Trade routes could have existed, but for someone to travel the distance in such ancient cultures they would almost need to ride on a dragon.

I totaly think dragons existed because of this thing on animal planet I watched a long time ago.Also cause I want them to have. also it would be way cool if dragons exist now and are on some island nobody knows of and I now that that sownds si-fi but mabye. but a more possible thing would be if they lived under ground in a cave. but I think a good question is are/were dragons magical (that is if they were real.)

they could be from some other planet. any thing is possible when it comes to dragons.

lovely paragraph. do you beleive in dragons?

i do but by the sound of that paragraph he doesn't and you seem to think about things like that or you are just so smart you say stupid things, i strongly disagree with you perspective and hope you see the light .....SOON!!!.... but if you do think there are still dragons around ... remimber camodo dragons, they are proaly a branch of the biger and more powerful dragons, like a evoled form, but i think dragons are still alive mabey on Earth or other plantets which is very possiable because NASA just found some kind of life form on one of the moons, and we cant be the only planet with life. who knows but im planing on searching for some kind of fossil one day. but you might be right about the dinasor part but ill look into it more.

if dragons are real and are still alive they would more then likly be hiding where The Lost City of Alantis is and that is in the bermuda triangle, it has to be, i have done all research....cause think dragons have magical abiltys and we cant go to the bermuda triangle without werid things happaning...think on it. i might have soultion!

Dude. i live in florida and the bramuda triangle tuoches my state. i'v been through and around it. thiers nothing special about it.

A. Don't Double Post.
B. Bermuda is caused by pockets of gas rapidly erupting and causing waves to overcome ships, as well as the force of their surfacing breaking ships like stepping on a twig.
C. As for that earlier paragraph, I'm glad I now have a contact for scientology. A lot of polytheistic religions are barely considerable in this conversation (no offense to them). If I went back in time and started preaching about myself, the god of dragons, the people would believe it. The common occurance of the same or like god(esse)s is hardly avoidable. It is "civilized" cultures that worship gods and godesses completely different, e.g. Chinese and European cultures, that I hold as solid (not quite concrete) evidence of the rare reoccurence of such like beings.

but still thiers nothing special about it.

i think dragons are real either kind or not beacuase of the basic one here many cultures have tales about giant lizards flying durring the night or seeing one durring the day did the people belive this person and thats why they recorded all this aichent information just so it could be told that there actually was dragons but of course sicence people everywhere think they never existed but many people agree other wise beacuase there is so much lore form diffrent no one could mistake a flying lizard form a fire breathing beast it all comes down to one thing dragons and they are in every single culture almost.

Very inciteful and informative. What is your opinion on the most common idea of what a dragon
is? I think we both agree that they were either a reptile or a dinosaur. Well, it is really hard to
distinguish the two.
You just didn't make it very clear on whether you believe in the existance of dragons of say
Anglo-Saxon lore? Just wondering.
What do you think of England's patron Saint, St. George and the dragon he slew?

That's just a weird story, that is completely pointless. By the way, happy St. Patrick's Day!

Has anyone seen brokendraon?
And happy saint patricks day to you too ^^

Broken Dragon= I guess I should have phrased things a little differently. I guess what I meant
to say was the common conception of dragons, thats why I brought up St. George.
Like I said, I don't believe they breathed fire. I believe that would be physiololically impossible,
from a medical view point. I can't say for 100% that I am correct on this, but thats just my
oppinion. I am a Veterinary Technician by profession, and I wouldn't be able to explain that
phenomonon.
I don't know if they flew or not, but again in my opinion I don't think they did. For one thing,
they were too heavy (probably) to be air born for any extended period of time. They may have
had wings though.
Maybe the young dragons could fly in order to perch on high as a protective measure. I would
think that they may have been canibalistic creatures.
I just wish there were more studies of dragons performed.

you have a point there, as far as the fire thing. The only way that it could possibly breathe fire would be if it somehow exhaled a certain gaseous compound that had a reaction with air (or possibly another element that has been flitered out of our planet over time, that could combust with air). Both are extremely unlikely, conisdering that this would include their insides burning the oxygen as it entered also. (could be a seperate system for self defense, i guess, but all of this is unlikely) The overall existance of some form of large, airborne reptile is almost undeniable, but the presence of fire is only in some cultures. Back in those times they did not have high-tech devices so they could study the creatures, so it is possible that it could have been a longer tongue that someone(s) mistaked for fire.

Some excellent points. It gives me something to think about. I never thought about the tounge
before. That is a very good possibility.

And lots of reptiles actually do that. Good theory!

anybody saw the documentary about dragons made by discovery channel, if you didn't you miss something quite interesting.

Yeah, I saw that. It was very interesting. There is a sight on Discovery/Animal planet on dragons.
The scientist that was commenting on the documentary, he doesn't believe that dragons existed.
Of course I don't agree.

The whole concept about spitting venom, excellent theory. A lot of reptiles have venom sacks
in the back of their mouths. Just think of how much damage a cobra can do by spitting venom.
Also, the Komodo Dragons have deadly bites, not because of venom, but because of a mixture
bacteria. These bacteria are still unknown to scientist. There is an extensive study going on now
in order to come up with new antibiotics.
I just thought of something about the tongue being mistaken for fire. Think about it, when flame
is discribed, it's described as licking or a tongue of flame.

All of this has been very stimulating, thanks to all for your input. It's been fun.

i also saw it but refused to watch the part when they tell u how the made all the stuff for it. it ruined the image.

the dragon is real and not real and i dont mean the komodo.
you see the dragon was a belief inside a person that spread but i doubt it was real and if it was than it would be cool to find one!

on my topic 'does anyone beleive in dragons?' i said that i saw one once. it was a full moon that night. and the wind was blowing at almost huricane force! the trees were shaking very hard and some were about to break. i looked at the moon, enchanted by it's pale blue light. just then for a moment a gap in the gray clouds that were scatterd throughout the night sky a dragon flew past! gray with magnificent wings flew right over me very high up. but i felt the power and the gust of it's wings from all the way down on the ground.

dragons do exist....i know.

Solembum 100%- I believe that dragons did exist, but they were probably hunted into extinction.
Now I never believed in UFO's, but I swear I saw one, thank goodness I wasn't alone. MY Mom
and my sister saw the same thing I did and it came on the radio that it was a weather balloon.
This was in the Smokey Mts. and there was no way that was a weather balloon. People still don't
believe us. So, I won't dispute your word.
Exactly where was it that you saw it, have you ever gone back to look for it? Why don't you
try to get evidence on video. You could shake up the whole world with that.

Oh yeah, one time I experienced a ghost. I didn't see it, but I heard it and felt it. I was laughed at
There were so many things that happened in that house, and a lot of people would see a man at the window, they were describing my great Grandfather who died at that house.

So I never belittle anyone who claims to have seen something. Just remember to be open minded and try to think of other logical explainations. But if I were you and I was positive of what
I saw, I would try my best to prove it. Especially something of that magnitude.

Good Luck!

well i'v expireinced all those things. and its not about trying to prove it, its about just how special it is that u saw it and nobody can take that uniqe memory. the fact that u saw one is somthing u can feel proud of. think to to your self "i saw a dragon. somthing in myth and tales of legend"
remember such things and you will start to notice just how often dragons fly around above us.

by the way this was in Florida.

Scientifically I could dismiss all of this here and now. But that is why I will never be a scientist. I am intriuged by someone claiming to have seen one, and the weather balloon incident is interesting. Claiming to have seem "all those things" is rather odd, but that isn't enough to disprove anything, as far as I'm concerned. For that matter, can you give us some detail on where you saw it? I go to florida a lot, maybe I could make my way there.

i saw a ghost in an old abandond house were a kid used to go when his parents fought. he wasnt quite right. he found and killed a litter of puppeis in that house. he finaly got so fed up with his life that he killed himself in that very house. the front door is alwase open, welcoming. but i went into that house. inside thiers a constant breeze. a very cold one. i turned to leave but i saw that a chiar was in my way, so i pushed it aside and walked out. when i set my foot on the ground, out of the house, it was like a vacume! air was being sucked into the house, intending to take me with it. i ran away from the house and i looked back and their he was. the boy. he looked at me and slamed the door. i never set foot in the yard of the house ever again....

prby in the deep caves and caverns of the aqifers. or the everglades.

Actually, I started a topic on ghosts somewhere ages ago. That's where all the ghosts I know about are. Here:
http://www.saphiraforums.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=725

theirs a lot of good topics that got pushed back.

Yup! That's is why we have "4 Pages of THIS"

well back to this topic i think that dragons were real. what im mad about is the fact that humans killed the last one in exsistance.

I don't think we did. I think there spirits are still here. They never did leave us.

Ehm so what are they doing? (and where are they hiding?)

I don't know. Maybe they are saving people. *Shrugs* Don't look at me.

That reminds me...have you seen The Mothman prophecies? (sry for offtopic )

Nope. What is it.

Excelent film-a little horror but no blood here it's great and really scary! Wife of main hero (played by Richard Gere) died so has in bad mood and somehow he travels a looong time with his car but he don't remember and came in some city where mysterious things happens i won't say more you should try to look at it

No thanks.

Uhm...why?

I just don't think I would like it.

what ever man.

Well, I am not that type of person.

good thing! who want to be like somebody els when your uniqe in your own way!

Actually I am unique in many ways.

so am i. i can write amazing things, ican make my nose wiggle, i can mke the tips of my eye lids move side to side and im double jointed in my arms.

Thats not what I ment.

oh.

OK
I'm waiting for your amazing story

may i ask, who's amazing story?

Uh????????I am confused?????????

Sorry bad spelling
Solembum said that he can write amazing things so he can show some

LOL. Yes, he did. I want to see some to.

Isn't this a topic about dragons?!

Oh uh...Oh ya it is isn't. LOL

its ok. i cant kep track of what im talking about ether.

i think dragons exist, they maybe on another planet how solembum said, but i think there real.

i think that we could create a dragon through science but it might eat us all.

ya maybe...

Um, I know this is off topic, but how did you just post that? Aren't you banned?!

I know. Anyway, on topic. I don't think that they are here. Their spirit is still here.

I'm still not convinced. Maybe in the oceans...

I think dragons were with the dinosours, and now they're extinct{sp?}.But it would be really cool if they were still around. . . . . . .as long as they were friendly, lol

i dont think they were with dinosaurs.

Me niether.

i say that they were back in the middle ages. Wait . . . i changed my mind. I think that they were with the dinosaurs.

It has to be the Medival ages. Dragons, castles.

yeah. But they still may have been with the dinosaurs.

Some. Maybe they Evolved.

What if some knight or what ever traveld to some where with crocs or aligators, they could have fought and killed one of them and said it was a dragon,

i dont think so.

It's likely. there are real dragons. I have seen one. So has my mom, and two little sisters.

I think that dragons once existed, and maybe they still do, there is so much on our own earth they we do not understand yet. If there are dragons, they are likely to be in the wilderness somewhere.
Maybe they live in the ocean?

really???? Did you actually see one for real life???

my brother did.

really?? Awsome!!

it was realy cool! it was a full moon. and the thing flew right overhead!

alright!! my friends arent goin to beleive this!!

are you a true beleiver? i know that they exist.say, is any one happy that my brother is gone for a while?

i dont know your brother.

i don't no if they are real, never seen one. Who is your brother

His brother is Solembum100%.

oh. Ha! He got banned.

well, im back...... and pionting and laughing in my face is not recomended...

WHY DO U ppl keep laughing at him? and sumtimes me, nywayz back on topic, i have a dragon, its fluffy and purple and u click its tail and it yells RAAA RAAAA RAWWWWR.

Okay. I have a small pottery dragon. It is green.

I think it would be cool if they were still around. 9We could see them)

i have a dragon egg, its cracked and i stole it from the museum.... or maybe its a dinosaur egg.

dragons are real...the bermuda triangle just has an enhanced gravitational pull...and i can prove that dragons exist!!!!has anyone been to Russia? if you have you'd be able to prove it to...the found dead but preserved in ice since 800 A.D.!!!!!

...u dont know how a dragon breaths fire????

lol dragons DID breathe fire lol...they have glands in the back of their throat like a snakes but instead of venom,they carry napalm....they aquire napalm by eating platinum found in their lairs

Dragons are real coz if they werent we would of neva heard of them. I have a dragon in my room.
That thing on animal planet is reli gd by the way and its a good insight but the wings are a bit out of proportion. Its is obvious they are real coz skeleton and fossils have been found that resemble a dragon speicies and the names like The Chinese Lung and the Amphertere(sp) and the european and all the names arent just all made up. And all the different images of dragons in ancient txts prove they must of had some existence even if they dnt now. also we havent explored the whole world and there are many vast areas in the world where large colonies of dragons could exist. eg North and south pole, Africa in the desrt. Australia, mexico or at least that big desert area near it. They could be anywhere. So i beleive they are real.

I think they'v gone extinct on this planet
but could be found in another

THEY ARE ON PERN!!!!!
im goin to build a spaceship and find somewhere that looks like pern!!!!! lol