Why don't dragons exist and please give good reasons why?

Answer 1

I think that the only "proof" that we have that they don't exist is that we don't have any evidence of them... no fossils, no living examples. That's the best reason that I can give.

Other things seem implausible. Some dragons are said to breathe fire. If that were literally true, wouldn't they burn themselves, especially the inside of their mouths? But I have read interesting Science Fiction explanations of how a creature like that could exist, so... who knows.

I have also met people who believe that they do exist, and I'm sure that there are other people out there. I don't believe that they exist, at least the way they are portrayed in many stories... gigantic, intelligent beasts who breathe fire, or other things like ice, acid, etc., who terrorize the countryside, but who are also literate and wise. I'm also not sure where so much literature came from... is it all based on some original fabrication that caught the imagination of multitudes of people from many different countries, or was there something that actually existed that people base the dragon myth on? Are there giant sea serpents? We have no evidence, but is lack of evidence always proof that something does not exist?

On the other hand, the Komodo dragon exists as an actual creature... so what is your definition of dragon? If it is just big lizard, they do exist.

Answer:Who said they didn't exist? There has been thousands of species of animals we didn't know about for so long and who can't say that dragons haven't been discovered yet? Some people may have discovered them, like Dr. Ernest Drake (a dragonologist), they may have found them and told someone but they didn't believe them because the fact that there are huge flying lizards around is hard to believe.

Answer 2

The dragons of myth do not and never have existed. They are a biological impossibility.

Now, you see here, I don't like answers being deleted completely unless they have no logic to them at all. That means at all, not that you just don't agree with them. So, would you say that platypuses are biological impossibilities, too? Or bats? Flying squirrels? Dear, dragons may or may not be animals and not higher beings (although, I have reason to believe they are higher beings), but if you are referring to the way they're supposed to be lizard mixed with another animal and made bigger, that's not the case. They are merely their own species although humans may or may not have wiped them to extinction. This is my answer, no more, but if dragons never existed, where did the original stories come from? Human stupidity? Possible, but unlikely. Like a unicorn, many things have been asserted to have been the original sighting, transformed by early human foolishness (which can't be more than we have now, to be honest) to be believed that it is said "mythical creature", but... the question remains unconfirmed seeing as there is no direct answer coming from said "mythical creature" or the first humans who saw them. And nobody would want to believe firsthand witnesses, would they? Everybody just tells the scientists what they want to hear, perhaps even for money or the joy of seeing your name in a book. Really it's your opinion and most people don't really care enough to make a study and based opinion of it, so... Yeah, this answer will be posted on the discussion page so it won't, ah, disappear again.

Answer 3

They are perfectly acceptable creatures. Though not as depicted in myth and legend

Answer 4

Dragons never existed. They are fairy tails.