dragons

the 2 first thing come in my mind when i hear the dragon is 2 type . the dragon from china 2 the  dragons who sleep in front of princess's castle gates waiting to be killed by brave knights (possibly they didn't find better place for sleeping )

ok enough joking how did we create it . the closest beast to dragons are dinosaurs but they are gone long time ago but we can see dranon's trace from east to west . how can nations talk about a beast which NEVER exist it would be ok if just we could see their trace among few nations we could say this is come from their Imagination but when i see them from china to england this make me wonder

any info about how and when the first dragon born ?

Etymology time....

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dragon&allowed_in_frame=0

Several years ago an archeaologist started going through all of the dig site notes from many digs, over many years, in several countries.  What she found were refs to fossil bones being discovered on many sites.  As they didn't fit the era they were excavating, they were noted, then set aside.  In Greece particularly, she found that many villages had these large fossils in prominent places.  Evidence showed they believed these bones to be those of the ancient greek heroes.

so it's greek where they born but still it don't  clear it how we can found it in china if greek use t-rex skull than we must see the dragons pic in greek and some few nations around the greek

and why the dragons can fire ?? no living thing cant do that or why greek's thing the dragons can fly ? i don't think t-rex have a wings

when i see the dragons all over the eurasia it make me thing they really lived but if they truly lived then why we can't find their bone

Originally posted by Ollios Turkish word for dragon is "ejderha" which came from Fars (ajdahāk/ajdahā) but in old Turkic word "evren" is used for it. In modern Turkish, it means cosmos/universe http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Evren  Nowadays, there is one -pedia for all things  so maybe it is an unborned creature in some cultures. It can be the universe. Head of Dragon on Bugut Stone

flaming dragon with out wings and legs !!! that surly was a Pythonidae

Originally posted by red clay Several years ago an archeaologist started going through all of the dig site notes from many digs, over many years, in several countries.  What she found were refs to fossil bones being discovered on many sites.  As they didn't fit the era they were excavating, they were noted, then set aside.  In Greece particularly, she found that many villages had these large fossils in prominent places.  Evidence showed they believed these bones to be those of the ancient greek heroes.   Just about every culture has stories surrounding fossils. I can see dragons coming from finding a T Rex skull, with teeth intact.

There is another theory - it is generally accepted by most scholars and researchers that every myth and legend began with a real event of some sort, "a grain of truth". Therefore, it is postulated that once there were creatures who appeared to "dragons".

That having been said, where did the myths and legends of flying horses, mermaids, sea monsters, Cyclops, werewolves, vampires, wizards, sorcerers, necromancers, the pantheon of gods and goddesses and all of the other "mythical" creatures throughout history come from?  Where did the Egyptians get their concepts of the man-beast gods they worshipped?  Where did the Feathered Serpent god of Meso-America come from?  And where did all of the legends of blond, blue-eyed tall man-gods-from-the-sky come from all over the world?