DRAGONS were a myth, right? Don't be so sure ...

That show is old, unless you live outside USA.

I believe they did exist, and some still do. That's just me.
 
I've seen this. It has awesome graphics and an awesome life story for each kind of dragon they claim to have discovered.

But honestly, this movie was basically for show. They found a few bones which may very well be a known type of dinosaur's bones found with another known type of dinosaur's bones. I don't believe anything until I've seen it. But that's just me.
 
Most myths and legends have some truth. Its a case of finding that truth. Most of the time, such mysetries are a mixture of several legends rather then one. Properly the dragon myth.
 
I saw that special last year and it didn't include a disclaimer on its premiere showing. Soon after they were added on reshows specifically stating the program was a work of fiction. False sense of advertising for debut TV ratings...besides only weak minded people believe in dragons :roll:

Title Subtitle
Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real

Heres the Transcript
http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/dragons/expert/chat.html
Togusa: Now is this show based on actual evidence or is it being used to entice our imaginations?
Dr. Hogarth: Well, we did title it Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. It's really to stimulate the imagination. We ask if they really did exist, how would they fly, how would they live. It's based on real animals, but it's really just a fantasy.
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Site
http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/dragons/index.html

Click on "THE INSPIRATION" and look at all the animals they used in order to make a scientific inquiry for dragons. Yes, study these animal's traits and compile them together to better understand a dragon, as if.



:arrow: DRAGONS ARE MYTHS :!:
 
I find it to be a tad masturbatory to make a "documentary" on a completely fantastic species and then struggle to come up with theories on how they would have existed while being biologically sound. At one point, you gotta back up and say there HAS to be something more pressing to research in the scientific community, as oppose to attempt to rationalize what every one of them KNOWS to be pure myth.

If someone put their mind to it, they could make a similar documentary on anything - centaurs, fairies, mermaids, trolls, vampires, satyrs - you name it. I don't know why pop culture is so hung up on scientifically justifying dragons out of all mythogolical creatures, but that interest makes them no more real.
 
Nephalim said:
I find it to be a tad masturbatory to make a "documentary" on a completely fantastic species and then struggle to come up with theories on how they would have existed while being biologically sound.
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A tad masturbatory? Just what exactly were you doing while you were watching that program?
 
No one was talking about the Dragon King. Did you even read any of the posts in this thread, or did you just take a guess as to what it was about?
 
Why would you say it's obvious? Have you actually seen a real-life dragon or fossils of one? Komodos don't count.
 
Komodo dragons are only a recent discovery (locals knowing about them for years don't count). They couldn't have been the ones to influence the myth of dragons.

A dragon combines all our prehistoric fears...

-Lizard (they hunted us once upon a time)
-Fire
-Flight
-powerful
-evil (medievil Europeon view)

Everything we fear(ed) is there. It really did take a true hero to beat one, (yay for Saint George the patron saint of england).

I used to be mad on dragon stuff... I know a few folk tales... Properly too many for my own good.
 
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