Dragons:did they exist? (kinda long but interesting)

[sighkick]

There is no way in hell that dragons exist...How are there humans if theres dragons...They would have surely ate everybody and everything if they had the chance...Plus it just doesn't seem logical to have 500ft monsters roaming around blowing fire everywhere and crap like that

[chowchig]

There is no way in hell that dragons exist...How are there humans if theres dragons...They would have surely ate everybody and everything if they had the chance...Plus it just doesn't seem logical to have 500ft monsters roaming around blowing fire everywhere and crap like that

If you make it sound less like an all powerful creature you could probably see that it may have been possible.

I mean maybe the 500ft fire-breathing thing is what is keeping some people from even remotely thinking that dragons were once real creatures.

Ex. The Kracken people said this was a creature the size of 5 ships and could crush anything with it's beak. Now what I think they saw was a Giant squid, but they just added a little bang to the story, and look what it ended up like.

Now try to remove the completely impractical ideas of dragons like fire-breathing and them being huge, and you may be able to get an idea of what they were like.

[Souleater]

If you make it sound less like an all powerful creature you could probably see that it may have been possible.

I mean maybe the 500ft fire-breathing thing is what is keeping some people from even remotely thinking that dragons were once real creatures.

Ex. The Kracken people said this was a creature the size of 5 ships and could crush anything with it's beak. Now what I think they saw was a Giant squid, but they just added a little bang to the story, and look what it ended up like.

Now try to remove the completely impractical ideas of dragons like fire-breathing and them being huge, and you may be able to get an idea of what they were like.

Its not the fire breathing that is a total throw-off concerning the belief in the existence of Dragons. The very fact that it would have the ability to fly with wings such as described, and the very fact that something like that in basically modern time and being extinct is unbelievable.

[blackjesus]

Its not the fire breathing that is a total throw-off concerning the belief in the existence of Dragons. The very fact that it would have the ability to fly with wings such as described, and the very fact that something like that in basically modern time and being extinct is unbelievable.

ever heard of pterodactyls? they have entire skeletons of those creatures. and like chow said, they weren't neccesarily these massive creatures and therefore, a specifically trained human/group of humans would have most likely been able to kill it. humans are known for being clever after all

[Souleater]

ever heard of pterodactyls? they have entire skeletons of those creatures. and like chow said, they weren't neccesarily these massive creatures and therefore, a specifically trained human/group of humans would have most likely been able to kill it. humans are known for being clever after all

This is true, but lets face it, pterodactyls were pre-human, and dragons are recorded as being modern day. and given the way the world was way back then, and they way they were created and bred, that is how they lived, in massive size. dragons, which in theory and what has been recorded would be about the same size, and would have had to survive the mass extinction that occurred during that time.

And since the weaponry would have been very primitive and basic, the chance of even a group of people, highly trained at the time would have nearly died many times before killing even one.