Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real
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Hey guys, anyone watched it on discovery channel around 3pm today?
Damn nice man..... so dragons are real after all....
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I was not sure that the dragon that they found is real or the whole episode is just a fiction to link the dragon from the east to the west.
It is more like story telling than the truth.
If a real dragon is found, that would be the NEW of the Century.
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awww, so its a myth?Originally posted by Medicated Oil:I was not sure that the dragon that they found is real or the whole episode is just a fiction to link the dragon from the east to the west.
It is more like story telling than the truth.
If a real dragon is found, that would be the NEW of the Century.
No need any documentary to depict it. -
actually i tink the entire show was a farce. if it was a real discovery wld it be treated like a bloody story telling session. n im tokg about the discovery part. not the dragon's story...
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its a created documentary, a faux. the producers made it in such a way that if dragons were assumed to havee xisted, what would they be like, following the laws of biology, physics, chemistry and natural science. just go read the official statements from discovery and animal planet.
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not real lah,
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not really wor, this dragon or some very rare discovery might be found at some very ulu place where it's hard to access. if the people can keep the secret well, dun think the media might knows it, unless they are bringing the damn whole dragon back to the city.Originally posted by Medicated Oil:I was not sure that the dragon that they found is real or the whole episode is just a fiction to link the dragon from the east to the west.
It is more like story telling than the truth.
If a real dragon is found, that would be the NEW of the Century.
No need any documentary to depict it. -
next theyll make one linkg santa clause, the tooth fairy n te easter bunny
wasted my 2hrs... -
dragon found in malayisa and thailand before. malaysia bones only but yet to know what it is. their loval fishery cant identify. investigations still on.
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the show yesterday is not rela lah, don anyhow believe it lah.
But there is reason to believe frie- spitting dragon exist because there is one insect which can produce smoke or like acid like effect in the movie Aliens.. they showed it in the docu yesterday . wonder of that was real or not? is there such an insect reaally? -
From Discovery Channel webby
DRAGONS: A FANTASY MADE REAL imagines dragons as real animals. Using stunning computer-generated imagery from the same graphics company that made creatures for Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, as well as the Harry Potter films, viewers see dragons from the inside out. The special imagines how dragons would have evolved into a number of different species through the ages and around the globe, and how each dragon species was endowed with physical adaptations and behaviors specialized for its environment. In this story, dragons find a mate, raise young, protect their territory and struggle to survive human encroachment, just as animals have done throughout history -
The ability of this species to defend itself with a particularly odiferous secretion was reported as early as 1835, when Gray in describing the genus quoted an account by Thomas Say "...that when taken they discharged a milky fluid from two pores of the thorax, diffusing a strong odor..." Albert (1947) also described it as a "...rather thick, tenacious white material..." Blatchley (1920) described it as having "...a peculiar, though somewhat pleasing odor, which has been likened to that of the common everlasting, Gnaphalium obtusifolium L." MacAtee (191
reported a second hand report "...that Anisomorpha buprestoides discharges a vapor from the end of the abdomen and that the discharge is preceded by a peculiar crepidation..." He noted, correctly, that this report differs from almost all others.
Eisner (1965) reported, "The secretion is produced and stored in two elongate, sac-like glands situated in the thorax and opening just behind the head." Happ et al. (1966) presented detailed information on the structure of the glands. The glands open in notches at the anterolateral angles of the pronotum (Littig 1942). The glands are functional from birth and Eisner (1965) reported newly-hatched nymphs successfully repelling attacks by single ants. Meinwald et al. (1962) identified the active ingredient as a terpene dialdehyde related to catnip and named it anisomorphal.
pronotal gland
Eisner (1965) reported that the stick insects generally discharged the secretion as a result of certain perceived threats. They can aim up to 30 to 40 cm with accuracy: "Anisomorpha discharges instantly in response to mild traumatic stimulation as, for example, when individual legs are pinched with forceps, or when the body is tapped or persistently prodded . . . Marksmanship is precise: the spray invariably drenches the particular instrument used for stimulation." Although most discharges required actual physical contact, Eisner (1965) found that the stick insects often would discharge at birds before being contacted by the bird. In trials, Eisner (1965) found the secretion to be an effective defense against ants, beetles, mice and birds; mouse- opossums (Marmosa sp.), however, managed to withstand the spray and consume the stick insect once its reservoir was depleted after up to five discharges from the larger females. One to two weeks are required to replenish the depleted reservoirs (Eisner 1965). Carlberg (1985) found that rats (Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout)) initially were repelled, but some individuals managed to overcome the defense in subsequent attacks. -
Hmmm, I see something going on there...Originally posted by Saint Valentine: -
fake one lah...
just listen to them... they even say how the male and female fly to 9th heaven and drop down to test their faith for each other.
how the egg cannot fall below the 60 degree temperature...
so bullcrap...
but it would be nice if it were real though... -
these kinda stuff.. not on newspapers, doubt its reliable.
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Long long long time ago ppl also dun belif that komodo dragon exist but later they belif rite? Similarly a historical fish called coelacanth was not deemed to exist but later belif rite?
So conclusion is for human to belif is to see a live sample in real life then they will believe. Bones can only satisfies half of their curiosity. They need living proof. Now that fish is really a dinosaur age species so we can infer they may lie more other that survive those ages till today
I like to keep my options open. -
Oarfish (Regalecus glesne Ascanius)
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kraken?(giant squid) was a myth....fanatical stories about it in the 18th century, at that time, they thought it dont exist and is just a legend blah blah. ... before they found a dead one on the beach. more and more dead one got washed up on beaches all over the world. Giant squid were in fact real.
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i believe got one day they find a dragon, if not something like a dragon . or they already found it, imo
when in our age of dinosaurs, something like dragon already existed.and all their stories about spitting fire are to scare children into behaving well.
its called a pterodactyl, flying dinosaur. i believe ppl had seen a pterodactyl
and thought it was dragons.... we know petrodactcyl is real. picture of petrodacyl -
Pterosaurs ([TEH-row-sore], "winged lizards," often referred to as "pterodactyls" [TEH-row-DAK-tils]) were flying reptiles of the clade Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous period (228 to 65 million years ago). Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. Their wings were formed by a sophisticated membrane of skin stretching from the torso to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger. Earlier species had long, fully-toothed jaws and long tails, while later forms had a highly reduced tail, and some lacked teeth. Most pterosaurs were moderate sized, but some reached very large sizes.It is believed that competition with early bird species may have resulted in the extinction of the pterosaurs. By the end of the Cretaceous, only large species of pterosaurs survived. The smaller species were extinct, and replaced by birds. At the end of the Cretaceous period, the larger animals all died, including the pterosaurs. -
this could what have happened, in 14th or 15th century, people found bones of Dinosaurs and thought they were boens of dragons. that;s how he legends came about. we know that dragon myths are fund all oveer the world , in many countries across cultures wherer they have not even ecommunicate with one another. China, thailand and much of Asian include India too have legends of dragons. yes , india also have although only now i heard of it. Indians call it "Naga"
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like to see more discussion.
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baiting the clone
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i strongly believe dragons are dinosaurs (pterosaurs flying reptiles) or their fossils and nothing else. people in the past like to make up stories..
if u do a search u will find many reports from people seeing strange huge birds spottted flying in the sky over Texas & Illinois
which look like pterosaurus in the last 50 years:, think one encounter was with miners who saw something huge fly out from the underground into the sky ... they call it the "thunderbird sightings"