Did Dragons exist? I recently saw a program on Animal Planet that seemed to indicate that they did exit?

Answer 1

The program you are referring to was a mock-umentery. I saw it too. Some of those mock-umenterys are hard to tell from the real thing, you have to catch the very beginning of the show that is the only time they state it is a fictional account.

Answer 2

The fire-breathing kind are completely fictional. The Animal Planet program was sort of asking what their biology would be like if they did exist. The closest thing the world has ever come to something like a dragon was during the age of dinosaurs. These days, it's crocodilians and Komodo dragons, which do not breath fire but are big lizards with a nasty bite (they reach about six feet in length)

Answer 3

Dragons that breathe fire or the ones that you saw on the Animal Planet show never exsisted. The show was made only to entertain, and to give a glimpse of how life would be like if dragons did exsist.

As mentioned above, there were flying reptiles and there are Komodo dragons which are large monitor-like lizards.

Here arew some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komodo_dragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon
http://www.draconian.com/
http://www.innvista.com/science/zoology/dinosaurs/air.htm

Answer 4

I'm of the opinion that they both "exist"ed and "exit"ed. Eh...if we believe in dinosaurs the only hard part to believe about the dragons is the whole fire-breathing thing. Oxygen is a contributor to fire and so long as they had a fire "agent" somewhere within they're mouth they could essentially "breath fire." It's not that far-fetched.

Answer 5

There is no evidence that fire-breathing dragons ever existed. However, it is theoretically possible for a fire-producing creature to evolve. Already we have the bombardier beetle, which produces concentrated hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). This is mixed with other chemicals to produce a hot liquid. If a creature were to have separate glands for H2O2 and a flammable compound (hydrazine, for example), it would be a fire-maker.

Answer 6

YES IT IS LIKELY PLEASE READ
Ok well in a nutshell the balmbader beata lhas a defence mecanisum witch is 2 chemical bladers hidrogen peroxide and i cant remember the otherone. but long story short this bug can actualy blow fire out its butt. many dinosaurs had odly shaped heads and unecplained cavities in ther sculls witch could easaly have contained simmilar defince mecanisums like the beatle PEOPLE DID NOT JUST MAKE UP DRAGONS they got them from somwhere dinosaure are painted on the walls of the ruins of anchent babalon look it up for your self. i have talked to misionaries who have sean many types of dinosaurs in the vast jungles of south america and africa over 20000000 acers of the african jungles are un explord there have been over 2500 expaditions in those swamps in the last 100 years and everyone sais there are dinosaurs in those swamps. it does not take millions of years to make fossils it can happen in a matter of months. look at mt saint hellons/ ya i know i cant spell or type .if anyone wants more info i can let me know- [e-mail]

Answer 7

In deed they DID exist. Now there are several species which include dragon in their names. Dragon fly in example. But seriously they once roamed this land and roared through the skies

Answer 8

Six-limbed dragons (four legs, two wings) never existed.

The Komodo Dragon is a large monitor lizard. These exist. There are other now-extinct monitor lizards that were larger, and it is probably from these forms that we got our legends.

Answer 9

It is said that the dragon is actually a description of early dinosaurs, which are incidentally, mentioned in the bible. See the link below.

Answer 10

yes they exited and some dragons still exit.
:)