If all spitting cobras were extinct and humans found their fossils in the future without any photos or video from the past only stories and drawings, there would be a smiliar debate about whether we were superstitious and using myths to explain a frightenign thing, or cobras could actually spit poison.



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Originally posted by they see ALL
some people, for some reason, that dragons are real...

ok...

how are they able to breath fire???

just a thought...

Could be a acidic type venom which burns on contact. May have given the impression to observers that it breathes out fire.

Animals are known to carry some pretty heavy duty poisons and chemicals on board - that don’t seem to hurt them in the least.
Maybe Dragons produce Magnesium Phosphide?
It ignites (can) in contact with air and produces flammable and toxic gas when it comes in contact with water.
Why not.
I believe in dragons.




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If a dragon were to exist and be able to "breathe fire" or spew fire from there maw, it would probably have something to do with the beasts ingesting minerals and combining them in a flammable mixture in which they could ignite through some process out friction or something along those lines. It would most likely not have anything to do with methane or fecal matter.

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Lulz.

I dont think dragons existed,im thinking it was simply ancient civilizations that saw reptiles and exageratted like we all do,but breathing fire is possible,there was a bbc documentary about it,supposedly some type of stone they could ingest...im trying to remember but it was a hypothetical analysis of it from a scientific point of view and it was very much possible.

Like I said, the ingestion of minerals and creating flammable compounds.

Many lizards expell a salty snot from their noses. It can look like smoke and they do it often, especially in the Gallapagos Islands. I was once hit by this "fire" from an iguana and it seemed to burn. This is where the myth started.

Are you sure really? Can you source it please? Or is this just you personal opinion, not a fact that you have read about?

Originally posted by veryrandomannonomous
Are you sure really? Can you source it please? Or is this just you personal opinion, not a fact that you have read about?

If you are talking to me, yes, I got hit with this "fire" and I have read about it. Marine Iguanas are on film doing this. I expect dinosaurs did it too.

I think what is not known by some of you is the Reptilian life cycle, they never STOP GROWING all their lives. This is true of crocodiles, alligators, iguanas, and all the reptilian KIND. Now imagine for one second that you were here before the flood and the before the canopy of water from overhead came down and allowed solar radiation in to harm the DNA of all of us. If you don't believe in the Bible that is fine, I am just saying IMAGINE. Now Adam lived 935 years, this was because of the canopy of water overhead stopping the cell destroying radiation. How long do you thing the reptiles in that environment lived? How big do you think they could get in 1000 years??? Loo at sea tortoises and 400 years of growth.

I am just saying that there are too many myths and stories and fables of Dragon Slayers and China is still neck deep in Dragon belief that it has to have something to it. We call them Dinosaurs now but that word wasn't used until the 1800's. And man had to be the only predator of these Dragons, I mean who wants to live where a Dragon does?

Reptile + time = DRAGON

Because they didn't?

Dragons probably some sort of dinosaur descendent. Roc some sort of very large pterodactyl type descent.

Breathing Fire - probably a type of venom that felt like burning when spat on you.