When I went searching for information on dragons, the biggest thing I found was a "documentary" by National Geographic. I did a little digging and found that
, while it wasn't real, it made excellent points. This is the very beginning of National Geographic's Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real.
The biggest point was that how every culture, many of which had no contact, had myths on these flying, fire-breathing reptiles. Now, it's true that the myths are different. You have the peaceful, benevolent Chinese dragons, and the evil, knight slaying, maiden snatching English dragons. Huge difference. Both, however, are still dragons. Maybe it's just coincidence. Maybe they copied off real life animals. But as National Geographic says, how would Inuits learn of them, when they had no reptiles anywhere near them? Maybe it's because their is a basis in fact in these myths.
Besides for this "documentary", there is precious little about dragons from a respected source. Most are just normal people like you and me. The one scientist I was able to find, Dr. Peter John Hogarth, said that he didn't think dragons actually existed. However, he was on the team of the National Geographic documentary.
The other source I found was a science magazine. While it didn't say a specific author, there was a paleontologist who gave interesting ideas. He said that their are traits of dragons in other animals. They thought that if you combined a pterosaur, an alligator, an acid spitting beetle and an electric eel, you could get a dragon. With only two sources however, there is no way to tell for sure if dragons once existed. Many people think that they are myths, but is that really true? Without evidence either way, it could be decided either way in the future...
SOURCE: GOOGLE SCIENCE
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