Recently on Discovery Channel there was a show hosted all week long, "DRAGONS : Fantasy Made Real" where they actually showed us a nonCG, real life skeleton or rather frozen body of an dragon and various things about other species like mountain dragons, forest dragons and even sea dragons, why did they extinct and from where did so many types of dragons came into existence, it was a pretty brilliant show.
Maybe if you guys can, try to watch that show it was really informative and cool.

As per my opinion, I do think dragons existed because there have been numerous carvings and paintings about dragons not only in China or someparts of my country but even the roman empire.
And I think main reason for dragons to become extinct were humans, I mean fire was their weapon and we consider fire as our greatest discovery! You see a pattern over there, they say fire helped our existence. So I think their own weapon became the reason for their own extinction. This is just what I think.

Alothough it might have been mentioned but the reason dragons exsist is that no one knew what they discovered when they first saw them and that is dinosaur bones.

So most conclusions are simplefied to the point that the bones that where discovered were most likly Pterodactyls or something close to that so dargons are nothing more the myth.

But if they do exsist well they must be intelligent enough to stay away from humans cause we most likly hunt them down and make them extinct.

Dinosaurs even the flying ones (Parodactyles) had only four limbs but this skeleton had "6" limbs and that is proof enough that those were no the bones of any dinosaur.
And first of all it wasn't mere skeleton, the wings, the muscles, event he heart was still there, and they found the broken piece of an prehistoric human tool somewhere in her (The dinosaur was a juvenile female.) heart.
So I think they really did exist and mankind led them to their extinction!

I think there was a skeleton found of what looked like a dragon... some creature that was able to fly... and even spit fire I think...

I have also seen that, it was quite informative and interesting.


I also belive that, there must had been some dragon sort of thing in past. Because as Falak (sylenzednuke) has said there are cave paintings and I belive that people in past don't draw anything which doesn't exists and is only in there imagination. If you see those painting all the characters they have made do exists then, why not dragons.

Extinct Theory:
If you try to find out the extinct theory, then humans should be the main reason. Because two gaints can not life in this earth together. Charles Darwin's theory comes into play "Survival of the fittest". Humans must have tried to make them pet or tried to restrict there movement to a limited boundary (like tigers, lions), but they fail they might have started killing them.

This might be one of the possibility, who knows.

Many cultures wrote about them thats a fact. O and by the way dwarves and elves do exist havnt you seen the little peopl who re about knee height and 30 yrs old walking the streets. And The folks with really pointy ears.
I am a big believer of Dragons. I mean if they werent real in this time or the next we would not be talking bout them right now.
But i do believe they existed and still do.

Well I do agree with Bhavesh regarding the implementation of Darwin's theory here. Well I do believe that Humans came to know about Dragons because of their ability to spit fire and this fire might have been used to humans themselves to advance and kill the dragons.
I even agree with Kryptonite regarding dwarves and elves, I mean my neighbour in my old society was a dwarf, it is just that, those "strange" people were portraied as something different in many cultures but they might have been normal as they are today even in those times.

Lol....... I've always thought dragons were just some story. The closest thing somewhat related to dragons I would believe that exsisted are dinosaurs.

The worldwide literature and appearances of dragons in many different cultures, stories, poetry, illustrations, art, architecture cannot be simply coincidence. To be dismissed as simply a fantasy creature does not consider that for all myths and legends there is some truth behind it, albeit a more dilute version. Never the less, by the very instances of so many dragon encounters worldwide, and historically accounts it appears that there may be some truth to the argument that dragons existed. If we consider the extinction of the tasmanian wolf, the dodo and the great auk it could be argued that dragons are too big to have simply vanished, but if we look at the literature, dragons appear in many cultures up to the 13th century. Consider then that over time many creature have become extinct, often by hunting, it could be that dragons were hunted to extinction. Add to this the similarity of dragons to dinosaurs and we may start to see some credibility to the case. Perhaps not so far as great winged beasts but again looking at early diagrams of the rhino and elephant and how fantastic they appear. The bgges