Quote Originally Posted by chowchig View Post
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.