Are dragons real?
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this was on national geographic
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Of course dragons are real. :) There is the Komodo dragon for one, though it doesn't breathe fire.
Everything in life is as real as you want it to be. After all, your world is your world. It's just that when we have to deal with everyone else's worlds that we run into trouble. :) But I'd have to say that the accepted norm is that fire breathing dragons are totally fictional. Sad. :)
so what you are saying is that there is no conclusive evidence suggesting otherwise
There certainly is no evidence that they do not exist. It is, after all, nearly impossible to prove a negative. :) But considering how many odd experiences I've had in my life that I haven't been able to explain, I wouldn't be to terribly surprised if one day I did indeed meet a dragon.
A dragon was found incased in ice and snow in a mountain cave and ultrasound showed this on Nation Geographic who knew
As Dianne said, dragons are real as in the Komodo dragons. Then we get into the fantasy realm. I do not know of any proven support of real dragons. However, who is to say? Could they have been real in prehistoric times? Were they the great winged beasts of firebreathing fame? Or did they have a lion's head or a dog's head and looked like the lucky oriental dragons? I personally love the lore, the fantasy and I have a family member who is most fond of dragon fantasy. I've grown to love these beasts. Besides, I love the dragon in Shrek.
Yes...Komodo dragons
Dragons? There are lingering tales, but the concept is so distorted through literature, movies and television, there is no clear cut answer.
St George and the Dragon is a parable of Christianity VS paganism.
There is the dragon of Komodo that , when distorted in travelers tales, could account for some dragon stories.
There are dragon flies. Were they originally the pests of dragons the way horse flies aggravate horses? Insects have been around for millions of years.
Perhaps when dinosaur bones kept popping out of the ground and river beds that stories unfolded of that which came before. Dinosaurs and man missed each other by millions of years, there are no animals in cave drawings that are mistaken for dragons.
Whale bones were on some beaches for hundreds of years. Either the whales beached themselves for various reasons, or were hunted and dragged ashore to be slaughtered and used by natives and later sailors. Large bones worked on the imaginations around a camp fire, especially after some alcoholic beverage was consumed. Tales flew fast and lurid out of the imagination during long tropical nights, maybe came to them in dreams, and evolved into dragons.
Dragons are pieced together in an imagination using animals parts already known . . . claws, long teeth, wings, scales. Nothing out of this world or unknown is attributed to a dragon. Some are lizard like on a grand scale, some more snake like. Knowing the beginning of civilization was fragile and fearful, everything became life threatening. Perhaps a bat flying close in an evening or dim sky seemed to be a dragon looming close, or the glimpse of a snakes tale as it slid out
of sight became just the very end of a monster slinking away. Fear tends to distort perception.
Dragons are real in fashion -- on the back of kimonos, tattoos, decorating skateboards, scarves and furniture. The orient has a love of dragons, harbingers of fate, indicators of change, and uses the theme in architecture and print. The Western world makes dragons more fearful. Gustave Dore, engravings expert divine, illustrated his dragons to be massive, threatening and usually standing over a naked woman . . . though it was never clear if she was to serve as lunch or simply as bait, luring men to their doom.
Some dragons serve as mascots for teams and products. Lowly end for something that began as a magnificent abstract for unknown danger. Sweet as Public Television's Dragon Tales is, there is a sadness that such a magnificent animal and community is at the beck and call of children.
Godzilla is not a dragon. According to the original story, he was a product of atomic fall out during testing after WWII. Everyone wanted an atomic bomb but did not fully understanding the effects. Godzilla was the only one of his kind, strange the effects did not happen to any other species, including man.
So, there are dragons and there are not. They probably fall into the same category as unicorns, Big Foot, Lochness Monster and other phenomenon that has some basis in fact but is so distorted that the origins and any current proof is impossible. But there is that dream factory that will always keep them alive in our mind.
wow I learned a whole bunch that I certainly never knew!
Dragons are real but not their balls, the Dragon-balls. You heard of that ?
how nice!
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