Real Dragon Fossils on Display in China
Some fossils, named the “China dragon fossils”, were recently exhibited in the Xinwei Ancient Life Fossils Museum in Anshun, Guizhou. When archeologists first stripped the clay off the fossil, they found the dragon had a pair of horns above its head and the shape of the dragon was very like the legendary animal often described in books and stories.
Dragons have often appeared in Chinese legends. The dragon with two horns on its head is regarded as a totem. The totem was first invented by Chinese ancestors and worshipped by the Chinese people. Therefore Chinese people are also called the “descendents of the dragon”. For a long time, scientists thought that the dragon was a fictional animal existing only in stories.
The dragon fossil was found in Guanling County, Anshun City, in 1996, and has been kept in a good condition. It is measured 7.6 meters long. Its head is 76 centimeters long and the neck is 54 centimeters long. The body is 2.7 meters in length and 68 centimeters in width, and the tail is 3.7 meters long.
The dragon’s head is in a triangle shape. Its mouth is 43 centimeters long. The widest part of the head is 32 centimeters long. The horns project from the widest part of the head, and are symmetrical and 27 centimeters long. They are a little bit curved and tilted, which makes the fossil look very much like the legendary dragon.
The China dragon was a reptile animal living in the ocean in 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. It also laid eggs on land. The animal lived on fish and small reptile animals.
This is the first time that China found a dragon fossil with a pair of horns. Its discovery provides some evidence to prove that dragons might really have horns. The fossil provides important scientific information for people to trace the origin of the Chinese legendary dragon.
(中国日报)
Ha.. riiiiight. love how the article has no references, or mention of who discovered it, or scientific naming for the animal. c’mon
you never know…
U R right, I have proof of dragons, but my proof is not to released, ever!!!
Dragons are very real even deadly real and they are awsome
That was a show on animal planet about how dragons could have existed, I recognize the dragon they used: it was a baby dragon they greated for the show.
It actually isn’t the same, the dragon bodies used on the animal planet mockumentary were yellow, and if you take a closer look you can see the head is different.
well i always thout they were fake (made up) but now i see they are real……… i always loved dragons…… well i would be pretty upset if the picture was fake:):):):):):):);););););)
r u stupid? it’s FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i would like 2 exzamine da fossil
in person actualy all da dragons
fossils u had stumbled upon i like
2 exzamine in person
they have a special about it on animal planet.
umm.. I’m not sure this i swhat you saw, but what I say was IF dragons were real, this is what they’d be like.
LOL. what IS the scietific name for a dragon
Dragons would belong in the reptile genus, draco. Draco is the scientific name for a dragon. It means flying lizard or flying dragon.
There are proof about dragons. Even in the bible, if I could remember where. Dragons were also giant lizards and not all dragons flew. Proof of this is dinosaurs. They were all considered dragons of their timeline. And if you look at the Komodo Dragon, you have yet another dragon, and one that is still around, and there are 30 classifications of the draco genus, all of which are considered endangered and would be considered dragons. And no, dragons did NOT breathe fire, that is a myth.
Anymore questions. Even if this picture was fake doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
yea u go tell em i like this comment!!!! shut em up! Thank u.
Look at this web site dragons r real
Yeah… that show was IF dragons were real…
well there is no way in hell that this is real because the only way that a fossil would still hav flesh on it wud be if it was fossilised in an air tight enviroment such as tree sap and clay isnt air tight so that prooves this is fake straight away as for other fossils such as bone etc they might be real u never know
You know, things can be preserved in clay. Search it on google.
I just saw one about a mammoth being preserved in clay, but it was torn apart. REALLY torn apart. It had NO eyes, NO tusks, and it look nothing like this dragon. Actually it looked my like an elephant. I bet it was.
get you..keeno
what the heck does that mean?
yes clay is not of it but red clay is air-tight
i believe you… dragons are a myth
I think they just made a mistake by calling it a fossil, it doesn’t prove that is fake, it just proves that it isn’t a fossil.
I however, remain sceptical of this, even though it is different it is very much like animal planet’s take on the dragon, however this could mean they based their take on this.
I wish there were more angles, having a better look at it will determine just how real or fake this is, creators of fakes always forget something, as far as I can tell this is fake, they’ve forgotten to shape and connect the wings properly, as, from what I can see, the wings show no signs of ever being the right size and shape for either flight or display.
Well, Dragons at one time WERE real. Probably died off though.
Being seen all over the world is no mere chance thing. There was at some time dragons. Go to ANY culture, and there will be some mention of dragons, however small. Even in the Illiad, or the bible.
I would like to think Dragons are still alive, but that is just not so.
I 100 percent believe dragons did exist around and before the 14th century. If you look through the worlds history, every single nation has a legend of dragons. Even the Mayans who NEVER had contact with other civilization until the Conquistadors landed on ther shores, had carvings of dragonlike creatures with wings and in some cases actually flying. The Chinese of course have there legends and how do you suppose Europe got there legends of the many dragons being slew if there wern’t any at all. The only logical explanation is that they died out towards the end of the 14th century but it is unexplainable how there are no remains (until now but I do believe this claim is false). The only thing I can come up with as to why there are no remains is that perhaps they were fire-breathers had respect for their dead and burnt the bodies till nothing but ash remained or that the bodies began to disintigrate shortly after death. BUT THEY DID EXIST, I can’t stress it enough that how does each civilization have a legend or story of dragons when half of them never met with other civilizations?
yeah… FAKE written all over it..
theres more dragons?!?!? why didnt we here about this before?!?!? i totally agree! fake! if they now so much about it them, why dont they bring it out to the other media??? no fossil over 200 million years old could look that good!! even if is was wraped in clay!! personally, i love dragons, and i would like to beleive this, but, i need more than somebodys made up word and a halfway convincing picture to pull me into this. sorry! but i call B.S.
hahaha you are so stupid. it wasnt just wrapped in clay it was also frozen too which means that there is no way for any bacteria or organism to decompose the animal. they also found humans around the fossil which means that human life did infact come in contact with the animals. i mean how else would we already know what dragons look like if they never even existed. watch the show that discovery channel did on this find. it shows them uncovering it at looking at it.
Don’t call other people stupid when you can’t even tell that the documentary you are talking about is a fictional documentary. It was a movie more than a documentary. Also, like the others have said there is no references to any other sources. This may be real, highly unlikely, but it is more likely a viral add for something else.
Also, we know what griffins, unicorns, and mermaids look like and they have never existed~!
Yea, but griffins, unicorns and mermaids only exist in one story in one culture. Dragons exist in a bunch of stories in almost every culture!! It is to bad that there is not more evidence. It probably is a face. I do think dragons once existed though.
Mermaids are in just about every culture, from Russia to the American Indians. They have been reported by Columbus and UK police. The have been seen in lakes and rivers as well as seas. Same as faires and fairy folk they are in every cultures stories.
I personally think that this is real, but they didnt want to say anything until it was further examined. It aint right for you all to say its fake so what do you know it might for all we know be real. If anybody says anything bad about it ,should think of possibilitys!!!!!
hey i agree wiv u but say for example someone found a fossilized duck or something, just coz it looks like a duck doesnt mean that it is!
some lucky person spotted a new animal that resembled a leopard but on closer inspection it was more like a sabre tooth tiger than a leopard and it was then named the borneo clouded leopard! (this animal bared fangs that protruded from its mouth over 1/2 metre in length.)
ya it dont even look like it in a museum, it look like it in your basment
maybe they just didn’t want to bring it up because they weren’t sure wth that really was?! lol. think in more than one way people
well, I don’t think this is real. Why isn’t it in the news or something after a while after this was posted? I mean it is March 23, 2008 now and I or anyone else I know have not been told about dragons existing. Wouldn’t you think all the world would know that dragons existed just like we know dinosaurs existed by now?
um this has been known for many years I found out about real dragon fossils when I was in the third grade lol which was 18 years ago
ha.
Why haven’t I or anyone else been informed? I mean this is something they teach you in at least 2nd grade. Dinosaurs existing that is. *Also, u know this one is not real because look at it’s eye. The mammoths they found frozen, well their eyes weren’t even in there. This dragon might have had been believable if it didn’t show it’s head.
I KNOW dragons igsist. I studey dragons almost EVERY DAY. I have Alot of proof! I know its unblevibale that that THING is in awesome cundition but I THINK ITS REAL!!!!!!!!!
Sally’
I have marked this page and will come back if you answer. I think,. Long ago dragons had intercourse with mankind. The human genome took, but a great part of the dragon still existed inside.
There were very powerful large wizards, that had a good deal of dragon inside of them.
I have to ask you, I know that dragons ate meat, but what are, were their physiologies like?
Is there anything that can be done for a person, because of the gene times we are going through, that has some of the ancient dragon in him, coming out. Its like a talon in the back of my lower tibia on my right leg. Its starting to grow through my Achilles tendon and will have to be operated on.
I also know, that dragons and wizards were very intimate, at the time of the wizards mental dirges.
Dragons would kind of wrap themselves around a wizards shoulder, in buddy fashion to console him, as dragons were the only species that a good wizard would get close to him.
What do I do? It seems that I’m not covered under the a hidden alien co base agreements, please?
MOP, please let Sally know of this post, this is not a joke.
Dan
Dragons are real so just be quiet
At the very least the picture was added to the story from a separate source. The picture is of something that, if real, would have been the first time that a fossil was discovered not with small skin impressions but whole flesh fossilized around the bones. No fossilization process will work so fast as to preserve the entire musculature system and all the skin. I suspect that the photo was from a special effects studio and was added as a visual aid to the story.
A large reptile found with horns or horn analog structures, even one that looked somewhat like a dragon (crocs already have a passing resemblance) might be believable but more info and a non blog source would be needed before I would trust the story.
There have been theories that dragons in various cultures were inspired by people finding dinosaur and other fossils though others have hypothesized that they stem from instinctual fear (translated into awe) of the animals that represented the most danger in our evolutionary history: snakes, big cats and large birds of prey. Traditionally, dragon have qualities of all three.
I would expect scoffing from uninformed people. This was big news for 2 years. Where have you people been? Under rocks in China?
This is an actual fossil, you want more info? Wiki it you tards!
Wiki can be edited by anyone, therefore it’s not always a reliable resource to gather information. I also have seen this exact same image on another website, posted below. If you look at the links at the top of the page just above the images of the “Dragon” on the posted webpage, you’ll see robotics, prosthetics, and other form of prop-making things.
http://www.crawley-creatures.com/recent/dragons.htm
I highly doubt this article is even factual.
Correct.
ummm… You shouldn’t use Wiki for true information you want. A kid could be posting about dragons and how he found a “dragon” fossil in his backyard which was actually the previous home owner’s pet monitor lizard they buried. Yeah…
yeh i liked your comment it stuck with me because a kid that moved into my old house did that when he found my pet lizard sally and put a drsgon find in the local news lol thought you’d like to know
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=chinese+dragon+fossil&go=Go
Nothing on wiki, try to be a better smartass, Tim.
yeah Wiki it, you know, the largest source of misinformation known to mortal man
Not necessarily misinformation. Actually Wiki is proven to be highly factual & it even references where it gets the information from. However, this “dragon” doesn’t even get referenced in wikipedia.
It has Chinese Dragons followed by the statement…..mythical creature…… But no reference to this story can be found in wiki
amen to that! Anyone cant post on Wiki
If it’s on the net, it must be true!
not always as people can easily fake websites to earn money, so according to u the websites must have been real just 137 people bought stuff and just happened to get lost in the mail!
I know! If its on the net it HAS to be true!!!!!(-:
This is only a Screenshot,taken from the Docudrama
“The last Drago” by Animal Planet(orig,2004)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dragon_%28docudrama%29
mfg.v
SOME OF YOU ARE SOOOO STUPID!!! I personoly luv dragons and i have that animal planet book. In the back of it there’s a section called “making it real,” and it tells how they made up the whole thing!!!!
It’s a kid’s book that isn’t true! if you guys look @ the rest of the site you can tell it’s all obviously bull.
People think about it….it’s the enternet and anyone can do anything, and the people who made this site just made a c**py one to get attention. I mean ther r some people out there that sit on d computer all day and make crappy sites.
The guy who commented and said he learned bout the dragonsin 3rd grade…….THOSE R CALLED DINOSAURS, IDIOT!!!
i KNOW I SOUND LIKE A JERK BUT all you nerds out there can stop arguing now
HOW DO YOU KNOW smarty-pants?!?
I luv dragons but you have a pount fire.
Oh yeah, dragons are real…
I like the, apparently unread by some people, part of the post that says: ” This entry was posted on Friday, June 29th, 2007 at 10:26 am by Sun Tzu who was most likely laughing hysterically.”
Remember, on the Internet no one can tell when your joking.
I did see the ‘Last Dragon’ mockumentary, it was pretty well done. I can see how if some person who is not versed in critical thinking or just simply believes in mythological creatures could think that the show was a work of fact and not fiction.
Sun Tzu is a dead guy who Wrote the book the Art of War a few hundred years ago
i personally believe dragons are real, they just don’t look like this one. My brother has a dragon *it’s name is Dragon* and it’s just a monitor lizard. That is why I believe that dragons do exist… I really enjoy reading everyones posts. They are very humerous.
The closest thing to a dragon fossil so far is this:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1013_041013_sleepy_dino.html
But it’s a dinosaur, not a dragon.
That is a picture of the prop for a mockumentary about a midevil frozen dragon’s carcus being found in Hungry I think it was. Not real. Good mockumentary though.
not believe at all
agree~!
that is not fake because i had seen that same dragon on a documentry on the discovery channle so their it’s real
i know it is real, i have been studying dragond for 40 years! shut up you dum arses! dragons are sssoooo real! believe it or you will die in 3 days!
I love dragons and all, and it would be awesome if they real at any point… but they aren’t real. this is just the same as people saying they’ve seen big foot and the loch ness monster.
Trust me dragons ARE real. their just not stupid enough to be seen in the wild you dipsticks!
it is possible for a bigfoot(but not probable),loch ness is also possible(because we are still discovering supposedly “extinct” fish)
As in the movie Eragon dragons are incredibly intelligent.
even in Chinese symbols, drragons stand for wisdom and power.
I love dragons more than most things in my life. it is something that mystifies me into relaxation, it is my escape from all the trouble in the world.
KIDZER06
I agree with draconic child. dragon are or were real and if they are we won’t find them, unless we are chosen to meet them. I see them in the clouds, in the trees, and in many things, it’s nice to think about something like dragons since we will never know what they look like, we can always dream up new and more awesome dragons.
oH my gosh. you are so dumb, the movie eragon, was, wait a minute, no… is more fictional than this! C’mon, how can you prove this is real? You know what, I feel bad for you, because you have probably been spending alot of time with spongebob and patrick.
I Have PROOF!!!!!!!!!!
sorry to disagree but the lockness monster is not real and there is no chance thatr a monster that big could have ever lived in such an area with lack of food!
all photos of this monster derive from a man years ago who wanted to get rich an famous easily so he built a monster out of a toy submarine and attached a metal pole to the sub and added a head using a football and a mask!
its fake
ok for one thing i did a little hoping around on this subject. the same “mokumentary” and with this story. its the same dragon in each of the photos as i seen under the links. this looks like it was taken before they “made it up to look like it was frozen”
allthough it is probabal that dragons can exsist. dont say they do or that they have but mabe. its possibal in prehistoric times. its also probabal that every civilization around the world has dragons in thier art work. in the process of evolution as some one said. that weve taken the most feared and smashed it into some super being. if some actual proof does come by however. i wont be suprized that they are in fact real. if not its a nice little itch to think about, if they exsisted all together. but all in all. the picture is a fake.
Ive worked with all the animation software…nothing gets THAT good i happen to think its a real picture but even if its not u cant tell me there arn’t dragons because there are. no way in hell that every part of the world had their own myths and the dragons are similar and have them be just myths watch the discovery channel sometime would ya’ll? they proved its very possible that dragons did breathe fire and swim and all that good stuff…hate to crash on ur parade but sooner or later an “indisputable” dragon will be found and people wont be able to pass it off as a reptile or a dino. and thats the day ill laugh at the people that laughed at me for believing in dragons. and i looked on wikki….ya pretty close resemblance…but not the same as u can tell by closly looking at it…doesnt look like it was made it looks real…ive been in college for a while now for this stuff…thats almost impossible to create right now and make it THAT realistic. And knowing that its in a museum and if u look up more articles on this (which i did) there is a lot of stuff on it and illegal trading of the fossils oh and btw the person who said fossiles never come out like that…WATCH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICS!!!!!! they just pulled up a dino with muscle and skin and all so your wrong too….god people research before u talk PLEASE it would save the trouble.
rock on dude
wow and for the person who said dragons are dinos…wow man get ur head checked alright? and dragons r real i like the person using the excuse look at lock ness monster….hate to tell u but if u watch national geographics or discovery channel or read any real articles at ALL..they believe they found where lock ness is and they have a survalence video watching for him to come up….wow really plz look stuff up from the right sources…i cant believe the stupidity of some people….runing their mouths with wrong info…hope someday u wise up and pay attention
apparently it wont let me post my begining comment ill try again later
Anyone who thinks about it long enough will realize the whole idea of Dragons came from some dumb uneducated peasent in the Dark Ages finding dinosaur bones.
As much as I wish they were real they aren’t an dnever were.
How do you know? were you alive back than? did you meet this alleged peasent? the fun of this is the fact that we don’t know. if we knew everything we why would we need scientists?
I know!
yeah maybe but u would know about being dumb tho!
Maybe you dont want to believe these things cause youre too narrow minded?
It’s possible that things like this exist, you just dont want to believe it cause you need proof. So tell me, do you believe that God exists? Now, i’m not a religious freak, in fact, i dont believe in religion. but if a God exists, why can’t dragons? theyre similar to dinosaurs and THOSE existed, right?
I SO agree! I dont belive in god, though. But its like DUH, its so obviese that they igsist! I even have TONS of PROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!(-:
wow krist plz read my comment r u stupid? lord have mercy how many time do i ahve to show u people the logic go to school would u?!?! stop being so dumb
Take a chiil pill ashy! Seriosly, or the F.B.I is going to take you to a mad house!
how did u find it???
dragon may be real. But I think they came from human brain when they discovered some dino fossils. Actually, western dragons and eastern dragons are not the same, you can see to it yourself. The eastern dragons are made from others animals’: they don’t have wings, body like a snake… and they have lot more power than the western dragons. Also, in eastern legend, the dragon used to be good, or they represented god, unlike western…
This picture looked like some plastic man-made model!
R U F***ING STUPID?!?!?!?! the dragon is real. there is no way that back in 1996, a “fake” dragon could be made to look that real. ur a f***ing retard dude.
to all of u that dont believe drags:U SUCK READ MORE HISTORY BOOKS ON THESE MAGNIFICENT CREATURES.
to all of u who belive this… thank u for staying true to the truth…
KONHOADRAGONWOLF, I dont know why but sometimes you feal like your the only one that belives in stuff like this, but your not. I SO belive in dragons! I studey them almost EVERY DAY. On the web and the COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean on the web AND BOOKS. Not cumputer. Sorry
THANK YOU KONHOADRAGONWOLF. if you don’t believe in dragons you are missing out on the most amazing creation the world has ever seen. dragons may not be real now though i hope they are but they certainly could have been real back then. if you dont believe do some research. these are magnificent greatures that should be respected and revered. and for all who believe keep believing.
lol, you can clearly see that the place is a studio, i dont know why some people believe that, if they say it is a dinossaur almost like a dragon i think thats ok, but never a dragon ¬¬, this is the same as ”the man on the moon”. Lies Lies…
shad ican agree with you that it maybe a studio. i have seen this pic. in many diff. places. but that doesnt mean that they didn’t find actual dragon bones. just because the pictures on there does not mean thats what it looks like. and if you dont believe in dragons stop wasteing your time trying to make others believe they dont exsist. i suggest that you do some research on these magnifecnt creatures. and as i said earlier for all who believe keep believing.
i think that it could be real but that is dragon from europe not asia. the dragons that were told in the stories didnt look a thing like that. this dragon looks like one that is from either european or african staries and legends.