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Post by Spooky on Sept 14, 2007 12:00:00 GMT -5
Do you believe they ever existed or are they just the stuff of fairy tales?
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Post by Millergirl4 on Sept 14, 2007 15:04:56 GMT -5
Dragons possibly but I think that unicorns are fairy tale material.
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Post by SwampFire on Sept 15, 2007 10:52:22 GMT -5
I'm with MG. We discover animals all the time that either we don't know of or that we thought were extinct. Maybe dinosaurs overlapped into more modern times than we think. I doubt they breathed fire though if they did exist.
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Post by Spooky on Sept 17, 2007 11:46:27 GMT -5
Dragons possibly but I think that unicorns are fairy tale material. I'm with you. Dragons are a maybe but I don't think unicorns ever existed. I did watch Legend numerous times when I was young though because I was like every little girl in the 80's and in love with unicorns AND I had a crush on Tim Curry as the devil.  |
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Post by Spooky on Oct 5, 2007 12:01:35 GMT -5
I don't have a date for this article. It may old or recent. If it's true anyway, I'm sure we'll hear more from it.  "Some fossils, named the “China dragon fossils”, were recently exhibited in the Xinwei Ancient Life Fossils Museum in Anshun, Guizhou. When archeologists first stripped the clay off the fossil, they found the dragon had a pair of horns above its head and the shape of the dragon was very like the legendary animal often described in books and stories.
Dragons have often appeared in Chinese legends. The dragon with two horns on its head is regarded as a totem. The totem was first invented by Chinese ancestors and worshipped by the Chinese people. Therefore Chinese people are also called the “descendents of the dragon”. For a long time, scientists thought that the dragon was a fictional animal existing only in stories.
The dragon fossil was found in Guanling County, Anshun City, in 1996, and has been kept in a good condition. It is measured 7.6 meters long. Its head is 76 centimeters long and the neck is 54 centimeters long. The body is 2.7 meters in length and 68 centimeters in width, and the tail is 3.7 meters long.
The dragon’s head is in a triangle shape. Its mouth is 43 centimeters long. The widest part of the head is 32 centimeters long. The horns project from the widest part of the head, and are symmetrical and 27 centimeters long. They are a little bit curved and tilted, which makes the fossil look very much like the legendary dragon.
The China dragon was a reptile animal living in the ocean in Triassic Period about 200 million years ago. It was an amphibian. It spent most of its time living in water, although sometimes it walked on land. It also laid eggs on land. The animal lived on fish and small reptile animals.
This is the first time that China found a dragon fossil with a pair of horns. Its discovery provides some evidence to prove that dragons might really have horns. The fossil provides important scientific information for people to trace the origin of the Chinese legendary dragon."A pic of the 'supposed' dragon:  |
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Post by Spooky on Dec 6, 2007 15:44:52 GMT -5
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