Real Dragon Fossils on Display in China
This “China dragon fossil” has a pair of horns above its head and its shape resembles the legendary animal often described in books and stories. It was recently exhibited in the Xinwei Ancient Life Fossils Museum in Anshun, Guizhou.
Dragons have often appeared in Chinese legends and apparently, Chinese people are often called the “descendents of the dragon”. For a long time, scientists (and me) thought that the dragon was a fictional animal existing only in stories.
The China dragon was a reptile animal living in the ocean in the Triassic Period about 200 million years ago. It was an amphibian. It spent most of its time living in water, although sometimes it walked on land. In which case, it sounds like it didn’t fly and couldn’t breathe fire. Not the same - never mind.
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so are the dragon fossils actually on display?!
uhh…. Im fairly certain thats fake, since they have it flopped on the floor and not in some special preservation container. plus, it still seems to have all its skin. you try being burried for 200 million years and come out of it with all your skin and organs.
sure its possible they found another type of dinosaur or “dragon” but are you sure this image is valid? was it preserved by being frozen?
Hey Dawn,
Looking at this again, I think you’re right. It starting to look more like a film prop in a workshop now…
yes but there are some sutens were it may lock like skin but it is realy a bater that kipes the coller and shape of the in sides but it will not show up untill you cut in to it
its hard to tell if its real or not it could have been naturally mumified perserving it.
Dammit! That is the prop from the documentary “Dragon’s World” Dragon’s Made Real. It is not real, it is one of 3 varieties they have in the film, from a Chinese dragon (not that one in the pic) a later European cousin (that one there in the pic) and an earlier prehistoric one. Look it up if you don’t believe me. I have the dvd. Saw it on Discovery. Patrick Stewart narrated one version!
Asian dragons do not look that… only European ones…
Chinese dragons look more like ‘oarfish’.
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I don’t know about this being real, but as for as the skin being intact after all that time, does anyone remember when the last intact wooly mamoths were found? They were found with skin and hair and all intact, so it is entirely possible for a being to be in a stasis type environment were it is found virtually intact.
It’s fake if it was real it would be all over the news. And also I am a dragon fanatic and have watched a ton of movies about dragons, so I can safely say that this is a prop from Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real, and for anyone who doesn’t know what that is, it’s a show made by animal planet (or the discovery channel) explaining how it would be possible for a dragon to exist. So, while I say this ones a fake, I do believe they were real once and may still be.
Millions of years? try more like 700 Billion B.C.E.
i believe in dragons because im hmong and we all hear alot of stories about it but this looks pretty fake i don’t really believe this pic
ok. i just did u all a great favour and sent this site to snopes.com. if any site can tell us its a fake or not, they can. and i firmly believe its a prop. did anyone see a documentary about how some animatronic people did up a loch ness monster? i think they did the puppets for walking with dinosaurs. anyway, had everyone there thinking it was the real thing. as sad as it is to admit, dragons do not exist.
I know you are a deadbeat dad. Scum. You are a fake!!!!
Yo,duh,it’s fake!
Oh yeah i saw this on the discovery channel. The reason it’s perfectly intact is because it was found frozen in the mountains. Even some medieval shields were found near the corpse. Oh and this is a picture of when they’re studying it to see if it really could fly and breathe fire. and i bet you won’t believe me on this one but yes. it can do both. if you would like me to explain just email me at grandetwins@hotmail.com
FlimFlamSam, that movie was not a real documetery, It was saying how they coud have existing.
You have to be an idiot to believe this is real. It’s in the same studio that it was made in. lmao
This is a pretty damn good sculpture though
Ok this was a prop in the The last dragon a.k.a Dragons: a fantasy made real. It is not a real dragon if u wanna know more check on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dragon_(docudrama)
It will tell everything you need to know.
this so so so so so fake its so lame if it was real it would come out on the news worl wide cmon that dragon is 200 years old how could it still have it skin and organ wat its been in da freezer fo 200 years
I believe that it is not a prop but that it is real. People only estimated that is 200 million years old , but it could also be 100 or 1,000 years old. They only made a guess and people aren’t perfect, They also left out that it was found in clay. The poor condition of clay means that there is no Oxygen or nutrients in it which prevents worms and bacteria from getting to it. But yeah they should be real and I’m sticking with that
the majority of u that left comments are idiots. its fake. its a prop on a workshop floor. if u OPEN UR EYES u will see that. i want to see a real dragon as much as the next fanatic but if theres like 5 people saying that its a prop from a movie (and they all say the same movie) then thats prolly what it is. dragons prolly did once exist when there were dinosaurs and thats prolly what dragons really are. when they find REAL dragon remains then let me kno
If you the movie or seen previews of it you would know that the one in the movie, it doesn’t have horns. They have proven that they were able to live and I say that we should respect that. I admit it may not be real on earth but they coule exist on a different planet. Call me crazy but they exist and there is no way to prove that they do exist. If there is tell me.
I think that this is unbelievable. I like dragons and think that they were real back in the day. I wish I could see it in real life. And I wish I could go to China and see the display dragon with my own two eyes. I hope that one day someone will discover the dragon and crate it so it will be in our time or in the future.
They exist believe it or not. I use to doubt that they existed until what happened to me last night. I was trying to go to sleep because it was past one in the morning. I was just about to go into deep sleep when I heard a clunk along the side of my house. I nearly fell on my head on the floor because it was so loud. I peeked out my window and there standing about ten feet away was a dragon. It only stayed for about twenty seconds but that was enough. Wether you believe me or not that is what happened.
4 days ago I wrote in saying that I saw one out my windom. I didn’t I was high that night and was out of it. Sorry if I spread some rumors I didn’t mean to. I’m sorry again I didn’t mean to spread rumors.
This is the prop dragon used in the documentary on Animal Planet.This one is NOT the real deal.However there are real dragons, but they aren’t ever going to be found by random humans, living anyway.Believe me, if they wanted to be found, they would have been found a long time ago…
So maybe they’re real maybe they’re not is there an info page somewhere, where I can actually find out the history of these beautiful creatures…is that spelt right? I don’t know but I do know that I would be more than willing to actually go over seas and see the body of one if they were alive or use to be.
If there is anyone out that is willing to listen please take time to think have they proven that they can exist. The answer is yes because they have proven that a body can stay well preserved for 200 million years in the clay. People are way to judging when it comes to mythical creatures. The only reason that they won’t except it is because they are afraid of change. It would be cool to actually see a live one and to gain its trust. If there is anyone out there that agrees with me please answer this. Please!
no one know it`s fade or no, but i think this dragon is unreal, because 200 million years is not a short time, then it`s wonn`t able any particles can survive
perhaps these dragons did excist before then .. but the pix above its from the show in discovery channel …… btw … chinese dragons aint tat look … the dragon above its not eastern style but western … sighz =__=!
erm ,i get this right ?
it was a sea creature ?
is it me?
i cant find any usable features on this sample that indicate it was a marine
for a large animal to move traught water it needs short limbs
for the simple fact that if its long it onley slows down the movement speed
the wing like extentions on the back wauld made it not very agile
or am i seeing this wrong ?
…yes, I do believe in dragons, however, as for them being an actual flesh and blood creature…ehhh..the child in me would tend to ‘entertain’ such a fantasy. now, as for this picture, those are remnants of casting blocks beind the dragon. be it from this particular piece, who knows, but suffice it that they DO create such things in this shop. GREAT work though and props to the artist!
I certainly beleive that there were and possibly still are dragons. Though the chinese dragon does not breath fire in actuality some dragons do breath fire as you will learn in Animal Planet’s Dragons: A fantasy made real. There have been many findings of dragon bodies and bones that prove the existance of these creatures. How do they breath fire? Well first of all their digestive system can break down the unwanted chemicals in the coal that they eat off of mountain sides. That coal is a key ingrediant in fire making of course and there is a chemical reaction somewere in the dragons body that involves an organ, but i’m not sure which one it is. How can they fly with their massive bodies? Dragons have a sac inside them that contains helium Which helps lift the dragon’s body. Hopfully these explanations will help you understand that dragons are real. (Too better undestand watch Animal Planet’s dragons a fantasy made real.)
This think on the pictire looks very……..real! Is this truth or lie.It looks like on the film,like on the pictures.I believe in dragons,I know that they are alive!Who knows!This can be one big lie,or it can be a real.Who knows………..
This think there looks very real.Can it be real or not?Can it be just a sculpture or a real dragon?I believe in dragons.But if they are real and they live now?What will hapenned?
wat is a dragon anyway ?
may sound like a stupid question but i have seen alot of variations
and im not shure if they can be called a dragon
for example a weavern or a hydra
this reases the question if we can call any “dragon look alike”
a dragon at all
if the word “dragon” is a colective for lizard like creatures
we can even asume dinosaurs are a variation of dragons
so the basic question is : wat defines a dragon ?
as for the dragon breath , i do think it might be able to kill but not with fire
Well, as much as I wish it were real. It is not. As so many of you have said, it is from the mockumentary from Animal Planet or whomever. Dinos were a variation on Dragons, as are birds. I firmly believe that in an infinite universe, an infinite number of possibilities can occur. We are unlucky, or lucky depending on how you look at it, and the Dragons of our myths must only exist elsewhere in this amazing vastness. Our minds are very small, and our experience in life is very limited, but this I believe with all my heart. They exist, just not here.
ok….here’s the thing. the reason its a Mythological creature is because its a MYTH. meaning its not real. if dragons were real (and honestly thank the gods they aren’t) then do u honestly think they’d be any humans around? would something that big need to hide? what could it possibly be afraid of to hide itself from the world? here is something else, do mermaids exist? no, they don’t. sailors came up with mermaids after being out at see so long and seeing, wait for it…..manatees nursing their young on rocks. they lost their minds out there. thats how mermaids came about. as for dragons, the chinese used to believe that gold were the bones of these great dragons. all thru history tho, u see dragons art in different shapes spreading from asia all the way to europe, indicating trade. all they did was probably changed the art and look of the dragons. not that hard to do with someone with an imagination. or they found a skeleton of a dinosaur and presumed (being that they probably didn’t believe in evolution) made up a creature that was totally out of proportion. honestly, how could something of that size fly with its body shape? (please refer to the shape of a bird for this)
oh before i forget, people, would you PLEASE look up pictures of chinese dragons before thinking this is real? this is a EUROPEAN dragon sculpture. chinese dragons DO NOT have wings, are more snake like, and have ANTLERS, not horns. they also have colourful beards and hold pearls (or their egg, depending where u read about them) in their left claw. and their skin is very colourful too.
to answer all questions go to unexplained-mysteries.com. and yes the dragon is on display now
People don’t listen that well. The time of change is near and there is nothing we can do about it. Those who don’t believe better start to learn to except it. Thats all there iss to say so believe or deal.
could you be more spesific about the time of change ?
Its not an old one.
I mean by thetime of change, that dragons arereala nd people are maikng a big deal out of nothing. They say thatif they are real that they would harm people. That’s not true they expect the worst but in reality what if they are trying to do what we do. What if they just want to know if we are friend or fo. I have a feelingthat is almost never wrong that says the are real and theline between reality and mythology will be broken, forever.
yes i can see thy ppl might think a dragon is a carnivoraus creature
considering there dental features
as far as i know the onley spiecies that dont atack intruders to there
domain are domesticated animals ,like pets or dont have (sharp teeth)
btw ,mythology will never be gone ,but ppl will less likely take it for granted and ask questions on why
why did was zeus having an afair with every woman on the olympis when he was maried to hera ?
why wauld dragons be wise and hide from ppl (witch answeres it self)
and we go traught alot of efort to get the answere
and nowerdays we can get answeres to alot more things
with the goodies we discovered
there is one downside
the mystic of the unknown disapears
Yeah, the picture isn’t real, it’s from the discovery movie “Dragons” or something like that. BTW, the article says specifically it’s a dinosaur that kinda LOOKS like a dragon.
if anything its missing a wing….if this was propped wouldnt you think that theyd place the wing aroung there….im looking at the rest of the area and yeah i looks like a workshop but hey what better place to take off clay right? now that yellow lamp by its right foot produces alot of heat now if pointed to something that was covered in clay or ice it’ll give that shinning effect…im not sure if this is eastern or western…cuz seriously if i found an iguana here in L.A. im pretty sure i would find a bunch of them around the world looking the same. That explains your Animal Planet Dragons are real thing…maybe animal planet was really accurate have you thought of that?
if a person said “i discovered this t-rex fossil here….that means that all t-rexs came from here”…wrong umm t-rexs had legs just like you and me…where we die, doesnt mean we were created that particular spot.
So yeah everyone needs to open their eyes because this could be a real dragon…and one thing i really can tell you that doesnt exist is the word “prolly” by keri
hahaha
Dragons should not be in a museum, or for that matter be put on the web for everybody to look at….some things need to be kept private….pictures of drawings or paintings or just fake pictures of dragons are o.k , but when you try to find things that actually look like that, then you have gone to far….you have to remember, some things like to be kept private.
Did anybody notice that in the article is says that the shown dragon could not fly? If you didn’t take a look at the picture and tell me what the wings would be used for then.
it used its wings to help it push itself through the water at a fast pace
trust me, thats not a real dragon fossil guys…. discovery channel made a tv channel film called “dragons” and they were talking about history of dragons… the film basically made it look like a mother dragon frozen to death in an ice cave and they showed the body fossilizing in the ice… that was one of the props they used as trying to make it look like it dieing… try finding the movie cause they even have them at blockbuster or hollywood video.
Hey i watch an episode of Animal planet about dragons i think this is the same one from animal planet not sure….in the intro explorer found a cave in some cold place and the cave was very icy. and in there they got corps and fossils,frozen mummy of medeval man in armor and swords. in there was also a dragon frozen up.wonder if its the same one??
guys this is definatley from the showing of “dragons”, that national geographic made to dramatize weather or not dragons couldve existed and hw thy would have lived…..look for it in any video rental place, or look it up on the internet..i myself love dragons and my room is nothing but dragons, and i draw them all the time..even i can see a total fake when its right in front of me..as much as i would love to say this is real…sadly i cant..its a fake…i believed dragons existed at one point, because there are many different versions o dragons from all over the world, and even more curios, how can everyone have a version of a dragon, when some of those countries never met eachother before, and also know what a dragon looked like…if theyve never met before and each of them have their own version,there has to be some type of truth behind it…different species just like any other animals…plus the only reason a dragon hasnt been found with wings, is because they obviously deteriated..bat wings deteriate after awhie..so it makes sense a dragons would too…at one point dragons didroam the earth…but i believe they went extinct along time ago…if they didnt they would still be the king of the skies today…if they still roam the earth today..then theyre very inteligent creatures, because men would probably use them for wars or use them like horses….they want to stay behind the shadow of imagination and belief..then leave them that way
i don’t care who u r but if u don’t believe they exist u have a tumor on the front of ur brain. they exist i know they do and i swear i saw one before. no one ask me for evidence because i don’t have any. if i did i’d respect them and not put it out there, they r real somebody believe me please even if u don’t at least don’t put me down for saying they r.
i beleive u (answer 56) whos 2 say that picture isnt real wer theyther that answer is no nd it wasonly a few months ago the found the remains of a fossil with its flesh still in tact. people dont want to beleive the unexplained as they are scared of it thats all.
HI, i knew i knew it, chinese dragons are real, none of my friends believed me, but i new they were real, but i believe they are still alive today, but wont show themselves because of how we(humans) have become, we have turned into monsters and this is why they will never show themsleves until we change.
and even if this pic isnt real, i still believe they are real
That would be real cool in all but hey i dont believe this pic is real. i agree with aadam. i believe that they are real, and that they are out there somewhere….
yes if u ask me they exsist but my opinion don’t count coz why should u beleve me i am just a 15 years old kid and what I know about history and dragons , the truth is nothing ! But I just know that they exsisted do u know why
“if they didnt exsist how did the people created all the stories and pictures about mithycal creatures if they didnt see it before that
they just cant say about smothing that they’ve never seen there’s no way they can imagen that!
is that real any ways
It’s about time they found some real dino dragons that existed on this earth. We always knew they made it through Noah’s flood, now we can see them.
looks like fried chicken now that should stop world hunger
i will start of with this… i dont think this pic is real but i am a huge beliver in dragons and i still thik they exist but are in hiding and for people who say why are creachers that big in hiding i say there small numbers and what we (humans) have become. if are human ansesters did once hunt them then who would blame them for being affraid of us? but for all the nonbelevers i have one queshtion. if the myans and incas have no idea the other existed how did they both have “dragon like” artwork? if you have an answer for my dilima please inlighten me.
To uou people who dis this site how can u kno this isn’t real the wings in the pic could easily been to swim. Hear me out dragons are real we can’t prove they are not and I don’t think they would put a dragon on the news the government won’t allo it think of the aliens gotta go
its fake its a pic copyed off the film made by discovry channle about dragons
i can proove that dragons are real take a look at these websites
http://www.draconika.com
http://lair2000.net/Dragon_Lair/Dragon_Lair.html#table
thath not trough that dragon was found in rumania in the mountain carpatos and that dragon are now in the national museum of londres but are not a for review becouse thescientifics donn´t wahnt to see them
They do breathe fire, the fire doesnt come from their throat though. Theres a septemal muscle within its lower jaw called a “spark puch”. Flames come from there.
The dragon we are looking at is a Mountain dragon, is was found within ice. The researchers learned that it had “flight blatters”, which are organs that enable the creature to fly.
This dragon is real and may be the only evidence we have that dragons exsist, for awhile. God only knows if the lochness monster is a dragon instead of a dinosaur.
Also, it IS possible to still have all of your skin organs if you’ve been in the ice for so long, try looking it up on wikipedia sometime, smart ass.
But no, it isnt possible if a fossil was dug up from the ground. It would rot and fall off way to easily after all the years.
grow some common sense and realize the government is trying to hide shit like this away from people like you, so you dont go retarded and start thinkin shit like were gonna be under attack. if more then one person says they seen it then fuckin beleive it. UFO, big foot, dragons, some bible stories. like are you that fucking dumb to beleive were the only damn living beings in the universe.
I saw a movie that the first dragon ancestors were big as a tyranosaurus, can breath fire and can also fly . The second species was a Marine dragon where it live in the water, their wings became fins but their fins are small. The Marine dragon walked on land and Forest dragon roamed the forest, its wings are so small that they cannot fly but they can glide in short distances but can breath fire too. The people at the time of the dragons use their fire to clear the forest and to make weapons because of that the forest dragon become instinct. The last species was the Mountain dragon, its wings were big enough to fly and still can breath fire. The people from their time slay dragons so that’s why they become instinct. When i’m still young I study about dragons and learn about them.
Mountain dragons can be found in mountains. They live in big icey caves. Like mammals, if their young are dead they feel hurt or lost. The first dragon is big as a t-rex and a little fat so they need oxygen to lose their little weight but the marine, forest, and mountain dragons are long and thin but they need oxygen to breath fire and to fly or glide.
we all want to beleive in something that is not there love, death, or even a great discovery like this, this may not be real but who says that dragons arent real there is no proof that they dont exist but there is no proof that they do i am a dragonoligest and i do believe they are out there somewhere they do not want to be discoverd like me and u.
good night and may ur blades be sharp,
kendra
dang!!! if thts real spoky, if it isn’t u guys did a good job!!!
i saw this pic on a programme about a dragon found in romania in the mountains, in all the ice therefore it was preserved and was discovered few years back…..however i only saw about 20 minutes of the programme, and didn’t see if this was just a story or an actual documentary about the discovery…although if this were real, you would think that it would have made headlines and lot more people would know about it by now…i mean its not exactly something small you would think..oh whats new today, oh dragons really did exist…. lol
Alrighty, so at first, I was like; “Woah they have dragon fossils? Sick but why haven’t I heard this before?” Then I saw the picture. Yeah, k. If they were truly fossils, especially thought to be the legendary *dragon* fossils they would not only be in a mueseum or science lab but certainly not heaped on the floor. Skin or not, it wouldn’t EVER be left like that is it was genuine. And anyway, dragons could not have exsisted 100-1000 years ago as one moron stated.. It would have been documented in some historic book. Or some means would have been left to leave this conclusion. The point it, yeah, dragons being real would be amazing and hell, it could be true. But there is no, and I mean NO, current proof of this theory and on top of that, if there was, this would never qualify as it. Nice try, move on
Check this out. I have the video taped. This dragon was made by artists for the show on animal planet where they pretended to discover a real dinosaur fossil in an ice cave and research its remains. Great show but not a real dragon.
http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/dragons/index.html
I meant to say dragon fossil. Check it out for yourself and if you like dragons buy the movie and youll be able to see it.
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