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Many tales, medieval sagas and even Russian epics tell of dragons or flying fire-breathing kites, distinguished enviable invulnerability. The body of these monsters was covered with armor-scales, and instead of severed heads, new ones grew …
The question arises: how true are such traditions? Did such monsters really exist or give birth to them rich imagination of our ancestors? .. What do they think about this modern scientists?
Dragon legends are ubiquitous
You will probably agree that the legends of any people are very differ from myths and legends of other ethnic groups. Every epic glorifies of their heroes, in each of them – their villains … The exception is dragons, which are described both in the West and in East …
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It should be noted, the eastern dragon looks similar to giant winged snake (by the way, this is our “homegrown” Snake Gorynych), the western one is a fire-breathing evil monster of huge sizes that looks more like a dinosaur.
One cannot help but admit that the descriptions of dragons everywhere are pretty are realistic. It seems that the ancient Greeks and knights of the Middle Ages no no yes met armored winged reptiles belching flame. With whom did they paint the portrait? ..
The first ones that come to mind are the large reptiles of the Mesozoic era. According to scientists, among them were flying species. By the way pterosaurs reached a wingspan of ten meters! ..
The amazing properties of dragons
Modern aerodynamics researchers doubt whether that pterosaurs could take off or even plan. However, there is a hypothesis that at that distant time the Earth’s atmosphere was denser than now, and therefore it was easier to fly. But by the way, current scientists are not even aware of many of the “aerodynamic secrets” modern insects, what can we say about dragons! ..
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But the fact that the bodies of these creatures were covered with bone scales plates, which neither arrows nor spears pierced, very similar to the truth. Remember how fairy-tale heroes fighting dragons tried to hit them in vulnerabilities, for example, hit on relatively thin neck.
But the same tales tell us that severed dragon heads immediately grew back or grew again. Could it be is this? .. Let’s remember the lizards (by the way, also reptiles) with their the ability to grow lost tails … Or crabs, restoring claws torn in fights … Or grape snails that have new heads grow instead of cut ones! .. But among animals there are real self-healing champions. So, if an earthworm is cut into pieces, from each fragment a whole organism will grow. And hydra can even recover after she’s passed through a meat grinder! ..
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Based on this, it is not difficult to assume that once on our the planet there were organisms that were distinguished by increased ability to regenerate. Of course, their cut off parts are hardly could grow as fast as fairy tales say. But let this exaggeration remain on the conscience of the warriors themselves, which thus gave more weight to their own feats …
Why do dragons breathe fire?
This question is more difficult to answer, although you can also try. Of course, the creature of fire does not need these creatures at all later, to fry your prey. As you know, predators eat raw meat. However, let’s approach this issue in a different way. we we know that all reptiles are cold-blooded: their body temperature completely dependent on the ambient temperature.
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So the giant reptile always remains mobile and strong (like a dragon), he needs an internal stove, a kind of chemical reactor that would warm the body through exothermic reactions.
Recall the famous bombardier beetle, which synthesizes and accumulates the starting materials for a similar reaction in individual cavities of your body. For a bug, such a device is excellent protection from enemies. And a fire jet would not allow a dragon to stiffen. With such autonomous heating, reptiles would become more mobile and smarter, because even snakes we sometimes blame for tricks and deceit. What can be said about creatures like dragons? ..
Where did the dragons come from and where did it go
Yes, I want to, oh how I want to believe that menacing fire-breathing dragons are not a fairy tale at all, but the most real exciting come true … But what a question arises: where did the skeletons of dragons go? The remains of dinosaurs are found in many (although they lived on earth much earlier), and who at least once found the remains of a dragon? ..
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The conclusion suggests itself that tales of dragons are akin to stories of Nessie, the elusive Bigfoot and other amazing creatures, which, according to many today, come to our reality from parallel measurements. Which means these reasonable monsters could have any qualities and properties.
There is, however, one more theory – attributing to dragons alien origin. However, neither version answers us a very interesting question: why all meetings with have dragons remained in humanity in the past? For example, snow man still appears in our world, as, however, aliens from other planets …
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