If a dragon really did breathe fire, how would it go about in doing so? The insides would have to be fire-resistent. There would also have to be about three paths: one from the mouth leading to the stomach, one leading from the mouth to the place where the fire is produced, and the other to the lungs. That way if it were to get thirsty (probably because of all the fire-breathing ) it won't affect the area that produces fire. Now, the other thing to wonder about is how is the fire produced? Is it that the creature has a body temperature that is so great, that it gets converted into fire, and then released to cool down the beast? Does the body produce a flammable oil, that when the dragon wills, a spark happens which causes flame? And how is it that the dragon doens't explode from such a thing?

I don't believe dragons could breathe fire.

This post has been edited by truefusion: Jul 25 2006, 03:08 AM

If you read my beginning post it would explain that the oils from plants and such could cause such a conduction....but as you say you dont beleave they could breathe fire i do indeed agree with you.

You clealy said the ways it couldnt, which in this case was veyr descriptive. Have you ever thought of the way dragons could of breathed fire though? You can be nagative on the possiblity that they could and be possitive that they couldnt. Eather your mind is made up and nothing willl change this thought nor will mine...but i still think about the possibilty that they may have been able to breathe fire. There is still one problem about this though....no one has solid proof that they could.

I watched latest program on Draon research on Discovery last months, and found that it was an ideal thing not a real, it is imaginary thinking, the creator of this Dragon (Who give us the first concept of Dragon) is actually combined several properties of several species to this Dragon.

But Human are researching on them

If I'm not mistaken, there is a chemical that, when exposed to air, ignites. This could be a possible way that said dragon would breathe fire (in theory).

Of course in reality, I wouldn't count on it. If a creature spouted fire, there would always be the chance of a hiccup in which it would breathe fire literally and sear it's lungs, killing it. Not exactly an evolutionary leap forward (probably why they're extinct, if they ever existed).

Then, if these dragons were, as fairytales tell us, about the size of a large dinosaur, one would wonder how they would possibly get enough food without wiping out every other species around them, not to mention flying. For a creature the size of an Apatosaurus to fly would, in my mind, require wings so gigantic that they could not possibly be supported by such a small body in comparison (meaning that each wing would have to be perhaps half a dozen or more times the creature's size in order to actually come close to having a large enough span to create lift), and then such a gigantic wingspan would require an enormously powerful muscle group to move it, which would burn energy so fast that the creature would probably fly just so it could eat, and if it ever stopped eating, it would starve (meaning that, if it flew a lot, it maybe couldn't survive two days without food).

As you can see in this Wikipedia article, many cultures have imagined a species of dragons, but there is absolutely no proof to go with any of them. I would think that there would be at least one dragon fossil or some evidence thereof, but seeing there is none, I'm willing to bet that dragons never did actually exist.

there you go he got you a pic of a dragon..

I'm sorry, but i did not see anything about oils from plants and such in your beginning post.

Something of the "Dragon" sort had to exist at some point of time. If you look at ancient texts from all over the world, you see something about dragons being mentioned. Whether its the elegant dragons from asia, or the tribal dragons from europe, their preatty well wide spread.


Now for the fact if a dragon ever existed, there is no proof, nor disproof. People of "ye olde" ages were preatty spiritial and probably destroyed the bones with any remains to rid the dragons spirit. So if there was the possibility for something, its probably gone.

To me a dragon seems like they would be a kind of dinosaur. Because they had tough hide usually scales you know, and that's what dinosaurs had for skin. And I've definitly heard a lot in my time that Dinosaurs never flew although I don't know why when they've found a couple species of dinosaur that did in fact fly like birds. So to me it is completly possible for a Dragon to have existed in the time of the dinosaurs. As for the fire breathing that is something that doesn't seem to have been present because nothing else we've ever found on earth has anything like that.

But since they were able to fly there is a good chance they were able to run when the Dinosaurs started becoming extinct. Since the popular reason as to why that happened was climate change, (See they global warming then too lol). So the dragon's would be able to move to a semi suitable climate since the change would have been global. That move would have allowed them to stay alive a lot longer than some of the other dinosaurs which if a few lasted just long enough people might have been able to catch a glimpse of them a long time ago you know.

Of course they did ;]

but I'm quite sure that the Bible mentions dragons.

even if it doesn't, i do think they exist. anything's possible.