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Date Posted: 14:33:44 01/17/14 Fri
Author: Knut Holt
Subject: Dragons are Real

Has Dragons Ever Existed

Modern scientists are generally laughing about the belief in dragons by people in older time. But if we stydy what properties people actually attributed to dragons, we easily see that the word dragon was used about reptiles that in fact existed in former periods or still exist.

First of all, a dragon has a reptile-like body with a more or less long neck and a long tail. Furthermore the dragon was thought off as a predator with a specific behavior of luring at the pray and then swiftly plunging foreward and caching it. A dragon has a clefted red tongue, and usually has the ability to spit fire. It has shells and usually a comb running along the top of the neck and back. The size can vary from small to very big. In addition a dragon is thought to have wings, usually fairly small however.

You can find reptiles with all these properties, except the ability to spit fire. But reptils have the habit of sticking out the clefted tongue and waving it so it looks like a flame.

A big and dangerous reptile, called the comodo varan, living on islands in south east Asia, has all these properties, but lacks wings.

Another reptile, the so-colled flying dragon or Draco volans, living in south America, also has wings in addition, and can glide from branch to branch of trees. This reptile is small however.

And of cource many extinct reptiles conform to the definition of a dragon, and fairly intact scheletons of these have been found so people knew about them, but could not decide if these still were living some place or not. Usually people thought so, but that thought was not stupid.

Another type of dragons can be mutated individuals, mostly reptiles, but perhaps also mamals. The evolution goes along because of mutations that make an individual different from its parents. Most of these mutations make the individual weaker or are neutral, but sometimes mutations make the new individual stronger and more fit. Sometimes the mutations is of such a kind that the a new species emerge. But for a new species to proceed, a mutated individual of one sex must find a similarly mutated individual of the opposite sex, and that happens seldome.

Perhaps a specific set of mutations occur with some frquency in certain species, that actually produce a dragon. Since they do not find any mate of the opposite sex, they stroll along lonly praying on other animals or even humans and are sometimes seen, but might also sometimes behave friendly. Thus the myths about gruesome dragons that abduct girls and children, or friendly ones, can be a reality, but these dragons are produced by specific mutations that occur at randomn intervals in certain species.

Regards Knut Holt
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