Did dragons really exist?
110418
Dragons exist in legend and myth and in stories. \n\nHowever, there is no evidence that dragons really existed. There is no biological theory that would lead one to expect some creature that breathed fire would exist.
1169070
There aren't any dinosaurs in the bible. They just look back at comments about dragons and say 'See dinosaurs! We knew it all along.'. Um, no. \nBy the way, there are unicorns in the bible:\n\nNum 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. \n\nWell, now we all know that unicorns exist. Thank you informative and fact filled bible.
421715
I'm open to the possibility, basically for the same reason I believe in God.  There's no evidence to prove or disprove either God or unicorns, dragons, or manticores existing, so I just have my gut feeling to go on that they all do exist.
43689
Since dragons don't actually exist a lot of ways are possible.\n\nOn the other hand, some beetles combine chemicals to make an acid like sting. So, I would think a similar process would work for fire: two chemical are formed in separate organs, and when the dragon fires they are combined and ignite.
341956
I was taught that most dinosaurs died out in the flood, but there are references to massive creatures such as the Leviathan and Behemoth in Job that could have been dinosaurs.\n\nI wonder why every culture has tales of "dragons". One idea is that this is so because the early humans had contact with dinosaurs which are also "great lizards" and then some properties like breathing fire got added in the thousands of years that these legends have been around.\n\nAccording to some theories, the Loch Ness monster is a dinosaur.
251066
I think they did how else do people know what a unicorn looks like.  However, they probably didn't have any magical powers. Maybe the unicorn were just antelopes with one horn or something of that sort.
938626
Few people think zombies actually exist. But many hold they are at least conceivable, and some that they are ‘logically’ or ‘metaphysically’ possible.\n\nhttp://consc.net/zombies.html\nhttp://zombies.monstrous.com/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie\nhttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
466170
They didnt exist so the answer is no because they needed to exist first in order for the analysis to begin.\n\nWe know they didnt exist because science has demonstrated that we evolved to "humans" we were simply plopped on earth. We know the earth is billions of years old. We have found the remains of hominid life forms and we have shown the process of evolution. \n\nDividing this into macro and micro is silly and the uptiome of rationlization. Sorry, I too wish I was made in God's image.
352656
ghosts & monsters are not real.its all in our minds.we fear them because right from childhood people tell us stories about them.but spirits are real.i have not seen them.but many people have.
452193
they called them dragons in the bible silly.\n\nand there is more proof of dinosaurs than there is of God
311607
No.\n\nIf you examine the representations of dragons over time, you can watch them change.  European dragons become increasingly snake-like in their description, until the earliest descriptions are essentially exaggerated traveller's tales of large African snakes.  Fire breathing wasn't added until much later, after dragons came to be identified with Satan in mideval mythology.\n\nChinese dragons are based on the Chinese alligators.  When the alligators exhale, they sometimes blow out a mist of water left in their nostrils, looking like a little cloud.  This was included in pictures of the alligators and the "celestial" alligators of Chinese mythology.  (Basically, all animals had a magical counterpart.)  Pictures of the clouds became exaggerated over time, as the body of the "dragons" became longer.\n\nNumerous animals have been called dragons (leafy sea dragons, komodo dragons, bearded dragons, dragonflies, etc.) but those were all named for the dragon myths, not vice-versa.
1018816
ya i do believe in dragons and yes i am a dragonologist
193198
While it might be possible that some of these creatures exist, it certainly can't be said to be 'probable'.\n\nWe are still finding new species of mammals and birds all the time.  Genetic studies have even shown us that some of the critters we thought we knew are more diverse than we thought.\n\nRecently it was discovered that the species we know as the African elephant is in fact two species, a savannah species and a forest species.  So we have 'found' one of the largest species of land mammal just in the last few years.  Another study found that there was a population of the Bactrian camel (the one with two humps) that was actually a separate species too.\n\nSo it is possible that there may be some critter hidden off in the deep forest somewhere that we've never seen before.  But the chances of something like Bigfoot/Sasquatch remaining undiscovered in the rather well explored forests of North America are rather low.\n\nThe best chance for new, exciting and incredible discoveries are in the seas.  We really have barely scratched the surface in our exploration there, and there could be all kinds of new, even huge and exciting finds down there.\n\nJust in the last few years, the Megasquid was described, whose body is larger than that of the Giant Squid (although the tentacles aren't as long), actual live footage of the Giant Squid was finally taken, and Coelacanths were found off the coast of Indonesia, 10 000 km from where it was thought was the only place they existed.
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Look up the Dragon and Serpent in Mythology. They are well known in the Aztec, Chinese and Japanese Mythology as well as many other ancient cultures.\nThere are bodies of water that some say water creatures like the one in Loch ness reside, some have written that they could be creatures of the dinosaur era, I mean if crocodiles/alligators have survived whats to say that others havent.\nWith Aliens, I am sure we are not alone in our galaxy and universe.
770654
I don't think any such monsters exist but yes maybe some ancient reptiles or other species(like coelacath which was thought to be extinct) maybe there.
707242
We have no proof that any of them existed, so is this a trick question?
801101
Well common sense, to me it sort of goes like this....\nALL mythology has some sort of real-world counterpart.  What this means is that essentially that all myths contain some sort of universal truth when you strip away the dross.  As far as mythological creatures are concerned, I do believe that some may have definantly existed.  To say things such as ancient mariners thought that manatees were mermaids is a bit presumptuous.  That's making a giant assumption, saying that we know what and how ancient mariners thought, which we obviously cannot know for a fact.  So called mythological creatures are being discovered all the time.  A few years back, a breed of deer was discovered in Asia that was thought to have been a mythological creature.  It was tiny and breathed through the sides of its snout instead of having a nose.  For centuries, science scoffed at its existence, until one day someone caught one...And science looked stupid, as it does so often by down-playing things that don't fit its paradigm.\nThe unicorn was a creature featured in the original painting of the creatures going into Noah's Ark, two by two...I believe that they were probably abundant somewhere in the wrld at one time, but got wiped out as so many species do.\nIN fact, we discover new species of creatures every single day...Fish we thought were extinct, thus becoming the realm of myth....Giant squid, Giant sharks (Aussie Coast), and a plethora of critters that by our own technical and scientific standards shouldn't even exist (all those little critters living along the Mariennes Trench in water that's well over the temperature  that's supposed to support life)....\nIn closing, my answer to you is a YES.  I do believe at one point the so called "mythological" creatures not only existed, but were common as well.  Hit some of the crypto zoology websites and you'll see what I mean about everything I've written....Sites that deal with forbidden history are also a great source of information.\nPEACE!