| The Dragon has long been found in myth and legend on every continent. Too fantasic to be real, but too real to be jsut mere fantasy, our speices has long felt a strong bond with these creatures. They are depicted in many shapes, sizes and forms, but always distinguishable as The Dragon. Winged, horned, bearded, with breath of fire, with 6 legs, with none. Of water, land, fire and air, these creatures take their forms. Known mostly as protectors of man, these feriocious and tender creatures in all their elegance are seen not to the human eye. There are many theory's as to the hypothetical existance of dragons in genetical and physical realities. The most common flight theory is that they could fly because they had bones like birds, hollow and light, and giant wings to create massive lift. Also stated in textbook by Volodimir Kapusianik Ph D is that another possible way they could fly is that they had massive amounts of methane, a byproduct found in human digestion, in thier bladders, thus making them lighter, and being very flammable, being part of a longer explaination of thier fire breathing. Go here to read more about it. Transversely, On The Origin Of Dragons offers the "real" history of dragons... dragons as mytical creatures beleived by midevil man to have existed. Also mentioned is how many ancient researchers explained the existance, namely, the creation, of the dragon. One of the more intresting theory's is that of DNA of various killed animals left up in the mountaintops by cave dwelling birds of prey mixed together to create The Dragon. |
