Could dragons really exist?

ThatBrightHelper · 2024-11-19T07:42:54+00:00

I am friends with someone of viking descent, and she told me that her ancestors were friends with dragons, just like How To Train Your Dragon! I find that really cool that dragons might not be that imaginary.

oakleaffy · 22/11/2024 04:59

Love this Temple Bar London Dragon. Of course they are real!

oakleaffy · 22/11/2024 04:57

TheWonderhorse · 19/11/2024 07:58

Of course there are dragons. All Welsh people know that! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

These are very different to Chinese Dragons- City of London Dragons are more akin to Welsh Dragons. Perhaps distantly related?

WiddlinDiddlin · 22/11/2024 03:50

That is also a solid theory.

Throughout history people have embellished and exaggerated the size of the fish they caught, the lions, bears, tigers, dragons they fought, the bulls, pigs and horses they owned...

No one fighting a dragon is going to come home and let anyone know that the dragon was teeny weeny are they!

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 21/11/2024 23:15

DS says they are real but they are actually really really tiny, and not big like in the stories, so that's how they avoid being seen. He's five so pretty reliable about these things.

WiddlinDiddlin · 21/11/2024 23:12

ErrolTheDragon · 21/11/2024 08:07

If methane-filled dragons had ever existed, I'm sure the myths would have included them exploding!
As it is, only the best writers about dragons mention this characteristic.

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Reckon people wanted to make it look like dragons were intentionally breathing fire at them... nasty vicious dragons, bad dragons..

Rather than people admitting that the poor innocent dragons would simply fly too close to someones fire and go pop (or bang, size depending) scaring the kiddiewinks ... sweet innocent and unfortunate dragons!

Remember it's the survivors who write the history books...

NoBinturongsHereMate · 21/11/2024 11:04

OneBlackHeart · 19/11/2024 08:19

There's that video floating about of a man saying the T rex was a dragon. Compares the skeleton with that of an ostrich and the arms/wings look the same

The famously flightless ostrich.

maxiemouslady · 21/11/2024 10:02

BrunetteHarpy · 21/11/2024 10:00

You mean it’s easier to believe in dragons than in people who are so outraged by an unexpected ring at their doorbell?

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Couldn’t have put it any better!

BrunetteHarpy · 21/11/2024 10:00

maxiemouslady · 21/11/2024 08:44

Based on some of the people that exist in here I don’t see why dragons existing is anymore fanciful.

You mean it’s easier to believe in dragons than in people who are so outraged by an unexpected ring at their doorbell?

maxiemouslady · 21/11/2024 08:44

Based on some of the people that exist in here I don’t see why dragons existing is anymore fanciful.

Valeriekat · 21/11/2024 08:08

spuddy4 · 19/11/2024 08:24

Yes they hide up in the mountains here in Wales and occasionally have been seen flying over Cardiff castle on Saint David's day. Rumour has it they only understand Welsh and their favourite food is Welsh rarebit followed by a Welsh cake. You can spot a Welsh dragon easily because it's red like on our flag.

I expect they would eat Lava bread.

ErrolTheDragon · 21/11/2024 08:07

WiddlinDiddlin · 21/11/2024 04:37

Beware the Dirigible Dragon... no naked flames please (I mean, if we're supposing such dragons were floating around rather randomly at a time when all was lit fires, candles, flaming torches and what-not... they really would be something to avoid no matter what the dimensions!)

If methane-filled dragons had ever existed, I'm sure the myths would have included them exploding!
As it is, only the best writers about dragons mention this characteristic.

leafybrew · 21/11/2024 05:20

unclebuck · 19/11/2024 07:52

Could dragons exist in the millions of years the earth existed and left no fossils/trace - yes possibly. During the very short period of human existence when we have had sophisticated weapons - no.
The evangelical movement has tried to dismiss dinosaur bones as dragon bones to disprove evolution.
Why people make this shit up when there are so many incredibly animals that do exist and are becoming extinct I do not know.

very true

hehe - also love your username, especially if it's in reference to James Thurber.

WiddlinDiddlin · 21/11/2024 04:37

Beware the Dirigible Dragon... no naked flames please (I mean, if we're supposing such dragons were floating around rather randomly at a time when all was lit fires, candles, flaming torches and what-not... they really would be something to avoid no matter what the dimensions!)

Tallisker · 21/11/2024 00:36

That is the most excellent depiction of a dirigible dragon!

Not a sentence I thought I'd be typing at this time of night 🤣

PippaKing · 20/11/2024 14:27

Yes they do. The dragon I know comes in the form of my boss.

SpanThatWorld · 20/11/2024 14:27

downwindofyou · 19/11/2024 14:48

DNA tests suggest you are wrong. Most British people do not have Viking/nordic ancestors

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You're right. I've had a bit of a Google and this is interesting:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2020/september/viking-dna.html

6% of people in the UK have viking DNA - and it's only 10% in Sweden.

It seems that even 1000 years ago, people who were accepted as viking and followed viking ritual didn't necessarily have viking DNA.

I stand by my belief that 1000 years ago, my ancestors were digging in dirt and dying of various unpleasant infections, as were those of OP's friend. Not playing with non-existent dragons.

World’s largest ever DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all Scandinavian

Invaders, pirates, warriors – the history books taught us Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyond.

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2020/september/viking-dna.html

CamelTail · 19/11/2024 18:18

Hoppinggreen · 19/11/2024 18:12

I'll buy the scarf with it on!

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Oooh I preorder too please!

Hoppinggreen · 19/11/2024 18:12

CamelTail · 19/11/2024 17:39

That's.

I propose this to be a part of MN logo or something. 😂
Mumsnet chicken, move over. Mumsnet possibly physics accurate dragon, take the charge😂

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I'll buy the scarf with it on!

CamelTail · 19/11/2024 17:39

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/11/2024 17:01

Invent your own scale here... mm. I think this dirigible-dragon would probably be quite likely to explode too.

Perhaps in the case of dragons, the size wasn't exaggerated upward... but, down. To make them less inflateable looking and comedic.

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That's.

I propose this to be a part of MN logo or something. 😂
Mumsnet chicken, move over. Mumsnet possibly physics accurate dragon, take the charge😂

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/11/2024 17:29

Like cats @Hoppinggreen ? Not subject to the normally understood laws of gravity, able to alter their density and volume at will... mm!

Hoppinggreen · 19/11/2024 17:22

I think the thing to remember here is that we are applying OUR laws of Physics to Dragons. Dragons may have their own laws of physics and so may not be subject to ours

SinnerBoy · 19/11/2024 17:11

TheWonderhorse · Today 07:58

Of course there are dragons. All Welsh people know that!

Where do they live, now that trains don't have fireboxes?

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/11/2024 17:01

Invent your own scale here... mm. I think this dirigible-dragon would probably be quite likely to explode too.

Perhaps in the case of dragons, the size wasn't exaggerated upward... but, down. To make them less inflateable looking and comedic.

(I've chosen to obscure the image lest it trigger someone.)

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ErrolTheDragon · 19/11/2024 16:58

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/11/2024 16:44

So the flighted dragon would really need to be a tiny dragon with an enormous bulbous gas 'balloon' ... a huge balloon with a tiny head/limbs/wings... fetches pen and paper....

Or obviously a small but aerodynamic dragon which has a very large amount of compressed gas storage which is expelled rearwards, allowing heavier than air flight even with small wings.
(Yes, they're very liable to explode)

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/11/2024 16:44

So the flighted dragon would really need to be a tiny dragon with an enormous bulbous gas 'balloon' ... a huge balloon with a tiny head/limbs/wings... fetches pen and paper....