Dragons are they real or a figment of the human imagination?
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i think they found the skulls of dinosours and thats with a little imagination is what created dragons\nthere are dinosour bones all accross the world
335673
The "Leviathan" in the bible was a large whale, its breath was spouting from its blowhole. There's all manner of enormous creatures in the ocean- giant squids, giant eels, giant sharks, giant whales. They can grow that large because of abundant food, and the water's buoyancy. Animals can't get that big on land because they couldn't support their own weight. \n\nDragons are another story. They were "real" also- that is, there were actual creatures, like the Komodo Dragon, that were sighted, and just got larger and more exaggerated with each re-telling. The Komodo Dragon does have foul breath (it never brushes its teeth, ever) it just wasn't fire.
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sure they were, this is clear because of the evidence we've got from geology. the bones we've found don't lie. but something you should notice, and that is dinosaurs were not all huge wild animals, they were just a kind of animals, including all sizes and all behaviours. also it is believed that some of the animals living nowadays are the children of ancient dinasaurs.
184812
They are figments of the imagination.
486208
Dragons have been depicted throughout history as guardians, messengers, destroyers, and the embodiment of Christian evil. None of that really matters in the 21st century.\n\nDepending upon what specific dragon(s) your collection represents, they could be either...or none. \n\nYour dragon art, in itself, is not evil...any more than a framed print of Gustave Dore's work from The Divine Comedy would be evil.\n\nPeople that look at a piece of art and declare it is evil really need to relax and keep their opinions to themselves.
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Actually there are dragons all over myths and cultures all over the world.  Almost every culture has some sort of serpentine or dragon-like creature in it; Chinese, Japanese, Native American, Aztec, Mayan, etc.  In fact, the idea of a serpentine creature that has various powers such as the power to fly, breathe fire, live under the ocean, and such is so wide spread that some consider it proof that dragons once existed.  Although there has been no concrete physical evidence to prove their existence, the wide spread similarities among cultures with no communication with each other about dragons is, in my opinion, too common to be coincident.\n \nPersonally, I believe they did exist at one point.  Or maybe that's just cause dragons rock.  Idk.  However, I believe that this commonality among cultures about creatures also spread to vampires or some sort of blood-sucking creatures.
584632
Wouldn't know because they're not real.
564366
The baby dragon in a jar turned out to be a double hoax.\n\nThe original story, reported in several papers a few years ago, was that the dragon was uncovered in a British garage.  The story was that it had been discovered by German scientists in the 1890s and sent to the British Natural History Museum for examination.  The Museum, suspecting a hoax, ordered the specimen destroyed, but the janitor who was supposed to dispose of the specimen intervened and took it home instead.\n\nThe dragon is incredibly detailed, and realistic looking.  It even has the threads of an umbilical cord (which reptiles don't have).\n\nThe reason it's so detailed is that it was actually created quite recently, by Crawley Creatures, the model makers behind BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs television series.  It was commisioned by author Allistair Mitchell (who writes under the pen name P.R. Moredun) as an elaborate means of creating interest in his novel (which at the time had been repeatedly rejected by publishers).\n\nHis book, 'Unearthly History' is a 'thriller for adults and children', and surprisingly enough, features a dragon.\n\nSo it was all a big publicity stunt.  And a fairly successful one too, since it is now being published by Waterstone.
196808
not sure about lochness monster.. i think it does exist yes because.. dragon exist also and i have a picture to prove it
517258
No.\nThere is none.\nBut there are a bunch of reasons to believe it as fiction.
584962
komodo dragon i think? but then i'd never heard of the other one. although...the person that wrote dinosaur is right to an extent...although they're not really lizards. another although coming up...trying to think...can't...going...out...:) i'm going to answer more of your questions. :)
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It is hard to prove and/or disprove the existence of dragons because, they are cryptozoids.  Perhaps they did once exist, and perhaps they still do (komodo dragons?...bad joke).  They might just were very highly evolved over-grown flying lizards with the abilities of breath fire, ice or acid.  The again, we cannot be sure of anything.\n\nTo me the world's cultures all share some form of beliefs in the exitence of dragons in their ancient past; thus, perhaps those beliefs were not myths...who knows?  Technically, there are two types of dragons: serpent dragons (Asian) and griffin dragons (Western).
134996
Read "wonder that was India" by A L Basham . you will find enough to satisfy your curiosity. \n  gerk05, sorry but there were never any dragons in India.
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Okay, let me start this off by saying that I am a paranormal researcher.  And I do this with purely scientific methods.  Which means that to date, I have found no prove of any mythical or paranormal beings.  This being said I shall put forth what I have found on this subject.  \n\nWhile there has been no actual accounts of fairies in scietific history, it is a very common theme in many cultures.  You have Leprachauns in Ireland, fairies and pixies throughout europe, the "little people" of native american myths (varying in temermant and discription from tribe to tribe) to other sightings throughout the world.  The closest thing to any proof of "small" people to date (excluding those who have dwarfism) is a recent discovery of proto human remains in indonesia dating back some 13,000 years.  These remains are actually similar to that of the homo erectus, but reaching demunitive stature. On average of three feet tall.  This species is known as Flores Hominid
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love the question it makes one think\nyour points are all valid \ni would also go so far as to say their is as much proof for the existence of ghosts /dragons /vampires etc as their is for the existence of god so i agree these questions should be asked in the mythology section \nbe prepared for some answers from angry Christians\nwith reference to the answer before mine  i have seen proof of dinosaurs [evolution ]but i have never seen gods bones \nby that logic aliens exist as  you can not prove they don't
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Fairies actually WERE real, the people that inspired the Fairy archetype were the "Tuatha De Daannan" of ireland and scotland, a very fierce population that didnt like outside contact and hid a lot, they had this particular "height" (they were short) and they were called by outsiders "The Fairy People"... then a lot of misticism was constucted around them, because they were thoght to fly and so other things, they worshipped the goddess dana, there comes their name.\n\nAbout mermaids, dont know.
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for the most part, no.  i couldn't say where they DO come from, but it's not human, that much is obvious.  i've seen the ones people claim, and there are definite differences in appearance between the manmade ones and the unexplained ones.  the unexplained tend to be more perfect and symmetrical than the manmade ones.