The Best Dragon (According to Science)

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Check out Extra Credits' video: The Origin of Dragons • Dragons - The Origin o...
We ranked dragons based on how biologically and evolutionarily plausible they are.
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Tetrapods: four-limbed (with a few exceptions, such as snakes which have vestigial limbs) animals constituting the superclass Tetrapoda.
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References:
Tennekes, H. (2009). The simple science of flight: from insects to jumbo jets. MIT press.
Azuma, A., Azuma, S., Watanabe, I., & Furuta, T. (1985). Flight mechanics of a dragonfly. Journal of experimental biology, 116(1), 79-107.
Habib, M. (2013). Constraining the air giants: limits on size in flying animals as an example of constraint-based biomechanical theories of form. Biological Theory, 8(3), 245-252.

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@MinuteEarth 4 года назад

We had a blast working with our friends at ExtraCredits! Go learn about the origin of dragons in their video, it's quite the fantastic *tail* : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rL8qSfXIo4M.html

@alina8014 4 года назад

good vid

@kenzob.pmarrocos1745 4 года назад

*hiccup*

@LordBloodySoul 4 года назад

Just flew my Wyvern over here to get some realistic physics intake on the probability of Dragons existing for reals :D Thanks for pointing me the way, ExtraMythology/ExtraCredits :D

@Darasilverdragon 4 года назад

You may actually want to have a looksee at the dragons in the old Discovery Channel special Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. They used special 'flight bladders' that filled with hydrogen from fermenting meals in order to effectively reduce the mass their wings had to contend with, and could exhale the gas through their mouth - igniting it by a flint-and-steel like spark from minerals built up on their rear teeth

@zekelyness 4 года назад

Except once you move down to 2 legs and wings they arent dragons. They're wyverns. So none won because you eliminated all the dragons.

@PRGME7 4 года назад

In defense of the enderdragon: it evolved in an entirely separate dimension

@thepacific2933 4 года назад

THİS MAN İS A GENİOUS

@korvix9536 4 года назад

PRGME7 HELL YAEH BROTHER

@idiotgoddess2114 4 года назад

That is true, so I think that would be a good defense

@newromanianmappernrm4420 4 года назад

Very True, also said dimension is made up of what is esentially thousands of giant rocks instead of a planet so în there gravity would be far lower, so the wingspan problem is also gone as long as we don't want it actually în The real world, as it's likely specifically due to what makes it able to fly în The end that it'd die în The real world, that being the far smaller gravity, which means it most likely would be too weak to hold it's own weight up and would be crushed by gravity irl

@thalmoragent9344 4 года назад

New Romanian Mapper /NRM Yep, makes the most sense honestly.

@faizanmustafa158 3 года назад

"dragons aren't real" *Sad Komodo dragon noises*

@atriox7221 3 года назад

Bearded dragon is actually called bearded dragon everywhere, in some places in Indonesia the Komodo dragon is just called Komodo, so rip bearded dragons everywhere

@AceofHearth 3 года назад

@@atriox7221 Komodo is a place name- as in the name of the island. I doubt people call Komodo dragon as just komodo.

@567secret 3 года назад

The tiny genus called "draco" is probably closer to real dragons.

@atriox7221 3 года назад

@@AceofHearth I am aware the island is called Komodo, but I have heard that people in that region call the Komodo dragons by Komodo and don't use the dragon part of the name, this may be wrong, could also be a small population altering the word kind of like slang. if the locals don't use the dragon part i just think a different lizards name could've been the joke, like bearded dragons.

@janssenlee3260 3 года назад

@@atriox7221 i'm from Indonesia. And confirm that you're right. We just call them Komodo without dragon. It's sound very weird when we add "Dragon" 😂. p. s. Dragon in Indonesian is "Naga".

@dantegrandia1990 Год назад

Fun fact about the 6 legged dragon. There is a lizard that glides big distances through the air with skin flaps that resemble very primitive wings. These wings are however entirely separate from any of its prior existing limbs. Pretty crazy.

@yourlocalreptileenthusiast Год назад

species?

@yourlocalreptileenthusiast Год назад

is it the draco lizard or flying gecko

@mancubwwa Год назад

Exactly. The wings are actually modified ribs

@Rahul-Jain Год назад

@@mancubwwa What if dinosaurs were dragon and we misunderstood their fossils as dinosaur. It is mentioned in Bible as well as in Chinese mythology about dragons but no where on earth dinosaur are recorded, now don't tell me dinosaur were 65 million years old, carbon dating method is already proved to give flawed results, it even sometimes give results like a thing would which is in front of us but will exist 1500 years from now. Radio carbon dating cannot show anything prior to 12000 years, as many catastrophe on Earth has happened which has changed the carbon sequence of nearly all fossil. By the way most of the dinosaur in your museum are just plastic and made up of cement, they are not real bones. Just think for moment how can someone imagine such a complex life form like dragons if it doesn't exist, how can something can come into tales, fables and stories. Most of our science is fabricated and mostly fake. geology is not what we are taught in school.

@TheMightyBattleSquid Год назад

I was thinking about this as well when they said that. I saw it in a video about pre-bird flyers and something akin to an ancestor or simply a parallel evolution showed up.

@sid1234213 3 года назад

I once watched a science show where they said that the dragons could produce concentrated Hydrochloric Acid in their stomach. Since they were always portrayed looting metallic treasures and eating armoured knights, there is a possibility that they could digest metal and produce Hydrogen gas. Hydrogen in the body could be the reason they could be lifted in air and they could breathe fire.

@RealRexRiplash Год назад

Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real?

@sflux4593 Год назад

That's a common misconception, dragons actually eat gold and treasure which is why they're always sitting in a big pile of it.

@Dan713 Год назад

@@sflux4593 don’t*.

@sflux4593 Год назад

@@Dan713 don't what?

@Dan713 Год назад

@@sflux4593 Eat gold.

@Deepz0ne01 3 года назад

Harry: "Look Hagrid, im a dragon!" Hagrid: "No. You got no wings. You're a lizard, Harry."

@benjaminmiller3620 3 года назад

Gah!

@rubsidudes 3 года назад

Shut up and take my like!

@khaos_theorem7842 3 года назад

You’re a hizard warry

@qdsw 3 года назад

@@akshaysalekar7249 that was quite the ride

@wilag8er85 3 года назад

This should have more likes

@dbfr2017 4 года назад

I feel like calling Charizard a dragon is just rubbing salt in the wound

@microska2656 4 года назад

Mega X is tho

@beepborp5838 4 года назад

Swampertstill though

@zeppie_ 4 года назад

They should've put alolan exeggutor in there as well

@PHiLLy2c 4 года назад

DBIYBIMWBIU it was

@rewrose2838 4 года назад

@@zeppie_ May I know what your profile pic is from?

@ptah956 Год назад

The Reign of Fire dragons had two-part bombardier style fire breath, four limbs, a keel, and massive wings. Really should have been on the list.

@thegoldentb7596 Год назад

The ROF dragons are outrageously underrated.

@tubekulose Год назад

True! The beast from "Dragonslayer" (1981) is a great example too.

@Just_A_Guy_Here. Год назад

I'm your 100th liker here & bye.

@analothor Год назад

so should the Wyverns of ark

@nailinthefashion 4 месяца назад

My favourite dragons, cuz they were also like a plague of rats. Really deadly, annoying ones

@eminkilicaslan8945 3 года назад

"Which of these famous fantasy dragons has the best shot to be more than just a fantasy." Ah yes, Ender Dragon.

@ilovethelight777 2 года назад

Well Minecraft isn't technically real, so it counts.

@eclecticsoffy 2 года назад

Ah yes, a dragon that breathes magical fire (according to the death message of the Ender Dragon's breath) and lives in another dimension is the best candidate for a realistic dragon

@eminkilicaslan8945 2 года назад

@@eclecticsoffy Sure... and another small detail, she's pixelated.

@eclecticsoffy 2 года назад

@@eminkilicaslan8945 I decided not to include that detail because if Ender Dragons are real, they'd probably not be pixelated

@toxicdino8676 2 года назад

@@eclecticsoffy if somehow the first fish divided into two, one is a tetrapod and the other is a hexapod, if four legged, two winged dragons existed, are their bodies just as mechanically possible (like would it make sense?) as wyverns? And are the reasons for a six limbed dragon not being able to fly the same as for a wyvern if they are the same size?

@FioreFire 4 года назад

came for dragon stuff, left desperately, DESPERATELY, wishing that ultra-fast flying penguins were real

@hkr667 4 года назад

"Penguin Air 572-Tango, climb to flight level 2-7-0, heading 0-9-0, speed your discretion"

@valhalanguardsman2588 4 года назад

@@hkr667 AA penguin launcher

@theviniso 4 года назад

"We have lost visual on penguin!"

@graveyardshift2100 4 года назад

You'll never catch me now, Batman!

@valhalanguardsman2588 4 года назад

@@graveyardshift2100 thats a good one

@CallmeKeyiii 4 года назад

Obviously the Enderdragon is the most realistic, just look at those cubes.

@dingodingodingo5138 4 года назад

Mudfossil university youtube now!

@in8187 2 года назад

Well you forgot to mention the dragon, that old serpent from the Bible, Genesis 3: 14, Revelation 12: 9 and Revelation 20: 2. There's a reason GOD said he will crawl on his belly for all the days of his life.

@pierre-samuelroux9364 7 месяцев назад

@@in8187..

@pierre-samuelroux9364 7 месяцев назад

@@in8187there's a reason bible not taken scientificly accurate😊

@in8187 7 месяцев назад

@pierre-samuelroux9364 only to close-minded individuals. There are many Christians who have their degrees from top institutions. Let me ask you a question: Do you believe everything you hear, or do you go and see what they say is true? Meaning dig deep for the truth.

@the_air_ocelot 9 месяцев назад

You have to consider forward thrust though, too. I just watched the bit of the Harry Potter movies with the Hungarian Horntail and it actually pushes air forwards, rather than backwards, when it flies, so it would move backwards.

@browneyeofsauron1244 Месяц назад

If that is true I won't be able to unsee it or forgive you.

@NoResultFound 2 года назад

I would say that the dragons in Reign of Fire are pretty realistic, which have some massive wings.

@eygon1330 Год назад

YES!!

@D.H.1082 Год назад

Reign of Fire dragons are fucking massive.

@jaredcristi5526 4 года назад

In defence of Charazard, he’s a fire and flying type not dragon type.

@kristopherblacklaw4404 4 года назад

The only time this has been used to defend Charizard

@Ahmadsaufi97 4 года назад

And the only dragon part of charizard is his claws.

@Silver19897 4 года назад

Jared Cristi and now we find he couldn’t even fly if he tried. Sad.

@justcommonvideos9038 4 года назад

Charizard X is a dragon type/flying

@mechatar1051 4 года назад

Yeah aint mega charizard x dragon type, and dont give me "but only in his mega form" bullshit, it is still charizard

@AnteJuneholm 4 года назад

This felt rushed. I would have liked to seen a more detailed analysis.

@culwin 4 года назад

"MinuteEarth"

@catonfire5010 4 года назад

@@culwin um, no, we take our dragons very seriously around here

@Xrelent 4 года назад

Yeah, dismissing all dragons with 6 limbs felt like a cop out. Longer to evolve ≠ physically impossible

@livid7525 4 года назад

About mythical creatures compared to logic? Keep dreaming hun

@culwin 4 года назад

@@Xrelent #NotAll6LimbDragons

@EndyDino 2 года назад

Minuteearth: all bony creatures have 4 limbs Snakes: Ima joke to u?

@gokulbalagopal1680 2 года назад

They lost their limb to evolution

@randomperson-fz7jz 2 года назад

@@gokulbalagopal1680 that means Dragons could also evolve to get 2 extra limbs

@gokulbalagopal1680 2 года назад

@@randomperson-fz7jz Maybe but evolution takes millions of years, and unless there is a really good advantage of having that it, it is not going to happen

@zoroearc2582 2 года назад

@@randomperson-fz7jz It’s much easier to get rid of something than to gain something. To lose something, you just need to have it get progressively smaller over the generations. To gain something, you need to start from scratch, which very, very rarely happens

@randomperson-fz7jz 2 года назад

@@gokulbalagopal1680 dude just blame evolution not me

@zappababe8577 Год назад

I like Terry Pratchett's dragons. They were created by someone's imagination in the presence of magic. The better the person's imagination, the more realistic and elaborate was the dragon created. Twoflower was such a pure soul, he conjured up a fantastic dragon 🐉 !

@realah3001 Год назад

This man must have had reptiles before

@wildcraftsw6284 Год назад

In which book did this happen?

@sapateirovalentin348 Год назад

@@wildcraftsw6284 the eighth color i think

@AlexArthur94 Год назад

@@wildcraftsw6284 That was in "The Colour of Magic."

@AlexArthur94 Год назад

I actually read that book recently! It was hilarious!

@TheNewsDepot 4 года назад

Awe man, the Komodo is going to be so disappointed.

@Sarah-rf5rj 4 года назад

Komodo is the OG dragon

@ZachariahMBaird 4 года назад

And the bearded one.

@dirandrous7682 4 года назад

*K O M O D O T I ME!*

@ericsu0630 4 года назад

Just a lizard... Just a lizard... Just... lizard...

@dirandrous7682 4 года назад

A 10 foot long venomous lizard if i must add.

@Velhiibl 4 года назад

4 limbed dragons.. if only we a had term for those... OH YEAH WYVERNS.

@happieeyt 4 года назад

Wyverns are more like birds while dragons are more like reptiles. Also some four limbed dragons use their wings as front legs, so you can’t really call those wyverns.

@user-tzzglsstle585e38 4 года назад

@@happieeyt still, wyverns can act like dragons and even breathe fire (Check out TREY the explainer's video about dragon, and sorry I don't have a link cuz I'm too lazy)

@cluckeryduckery261 4 года назад

Aren't dragons with two wings and two hind legs called Wyrms?

@jordangarcia465 4 года назад

No, dragons without legs and maybe no wings(maybe they can idk) are called wyrms since they're..Well worm-like. Probably not the actual reason but that's how I see it

@spoilprin913 4 года назад

True.

@iPyromantic Год назад

I never read the books, but as an avid fan of the How To Train Your Dragon films and shows, I feel like I should argue a few things. They actually go into detail in the special features of the second movie about how each dragon produces fire. (And in the show, Toothless' attacks are called "plasma blasts." They're more like cannon shot, damage-wise, than flames.) Hookfang has a massive wingspan and only four limbs by your qualifications. The sizes aren't necessarily easy to tell in the way they depict them visually, but all of the main dragons do have seemingly appropriately large wingspans for their bodies, or at least far larger than most would assume. Stormfly (the deadly nadder) is definitely far more birdlike than any of the others, with the most visually obvious keel, and again, only four limbs.

@argr4sh Год назад

I also want to add that, despite the toothless being 6-limbed (which imo honestly isn't that crazy, as they very well might've come from a different ancestor seeing as the entire world is completely different) is the one I actually imagine being the closest to actually being able to fly, not only due to its relatively large wingspan. But moreover since it has been shown that these dragons actually do go at some very high speeds, justifying a smaller wingspan.

@samudralaanu3429 8 месяцев назад

Yeah. Stormfly and other Deadly Nadders or Barkthorn Nadders don't have wings in relation to their weight. However, considering the speed of a Barkthorn Nadder, they get a pass

@prdoyle 2 года назад

It makes me so happy to see the Horntail win! What an amazing depiction of a dragon. The FX team nailed it.

@mattmorehouse9685 Год назад

Weird how a dragon from a series not known for its accuracy and realism won, over something like Drogon.

@al3xb0t2 3 месяца назад

same thing with the skyrim dragon, i knew it felt very realistic

@gregorymckenzie7511 4 года назад

Humans: "Flying things need a keel to support their *HOOGE* muscles." Bats and Pterosaurs: "OH OKAY."

@shockthetoast 4 года назад

Yeah, I found it hard to take this video serious when they immediately discounted a pokemon that is literally a giant bat because it somehow couldn't fly...

@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim 4 года назад

1) Pterosaurs most likely had pretty big muscles in comparison to their weight. 2) Bats still have some pretty large muscles compared to their body size. And he was speaking specifically about dragons, and by extension reptiles, anyway.

@Kimikashimoo 4 года назад

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim fun fact: "reptiles" arent really a thing. there's Lepidosauria (represented mainly by lizards, geckos and snakes), archosauria (the group represented mainly by crocs, pterodactyls, dinos and today's birds) and testudines (turtles) their relation isn't really that close and they aren't monophyletic so the group reptiles doesn't really exist same goes with fishes

@skaionex 4 года назад

@@Kimikashimoo fun fact: nobody cares

@nedinnis6752 4 года назад

@@Kimikashimoo I knew about the reptiles, but never heard of the fish fact. I'll read up on it.

@reaflor91 4 года назад

I cant believe you guys would remind me of Kiwi My heart is broken once more

@7head7metal7 4 года назад

Rea Flor All around me are familiar faces...

@lagle8 4 года назад

KIWI

@IdiotToonz 4 года назад

I actually noticed that, I'm sad too

@dyanpanda7829 4 года назад

@@Magmafrost13 RU-vid Kiwi! and you can cry with us too.

@HanoverrrFist 4 года назад

@Magmafrost13 Kiwi is a cute and sad short film about the flight of a flightless bird.

@hobg5786 2 года назад

thank you so much i randomly got completely obsessed with dragons so now i need more dragon content to help feed it and this did wonders

@Christa-op6we 19 дней назад

you always manage to cheer me up! thanks for the great video!

@marxiplier4322 4 года назад

MinuteEarth: No dragon is scientifically possible King Ghidorah: Laughs in ET

@user-td3ke9st9m 4 года назад

Laughs in bidididi*

@ester1sk 4 года назад

all eye santa he hanya

@laranjaghirga5058 4 года назад

BIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDIBIDI

@tifluvsu80 4 года назад

*LAUGHS WITH ALPHA CALL,GRAVITY BEAMS,ON VOLCANO.*

@vincenttrigg4521 4 года назад

Dragons could technically evolve on another planet if they followed similar evolution but the first to evolve on land had 6 limbs.

@Jess-pe8bq 4 года назад

Not all dragons use fire though! There are dragons that use other weapons, such as Poison

@betsegg 4 года назад

Komodo dragon!

@michaeldillah7600 4 года назад

Magical death spit

@kamatakun9055 4 года назад

Or hot plasma, maybe, lasers too

@NightMations 4 года назад

They can spit acid too

@TimAquila 4 года назад

or crystals that curse you

@Anawsomeplauge Год назад

I was so glad to hear about the wings, so many depictions of dragons I see have wings that are too small and often don't have enough surface area to make sense

@obviously- 2 года назад

What about the How to train your dragon Timberjack? It has a very bias wing-to-body ratio, and even though it only has 2 appendages you can kinda see where the legs might Hace fused into the wings with little hook claws as remnants at the end of those wings. Though... it dosen't have a ton of muscle to pull those wings it still seems like it has a better chance of taking of and flying. I just realized you clearly stated which dragons you'd be comparing at the beginning but I still make my case for the Timberjack.

@salvadortoscano2534 Год назад

I think timberjack is a good contender

@roset9835 4 года назад

Hearing that Drogon doesn’t have big enough wings, has me shook

@gatekeeping8528 4 года назад

Ikr and I thought that his wings were too big

@lorddinosaur9885 4 года назад

I too am skeptical about the conclusion of the video. The dragons look like pencils compared to their wings, in Game of Thrones. Plus, the Hungarian Horntail's wings are not really that big compared to its body. I feel like a reasonable factor for flight they could use would be mass as some of them might be too heavy to even take off.

@TheMisternono94 4 года назад

Take a bat, mutiply all it's dimensions by 2 (twice as long, twice as large...) and well... it won't fly... without going into complicated explanations, a good way to think of it is like when you double all dimensions of a cube its volume is actually 8 times bigger, meaning you would need to multiply the strenth needed to lift it up by 8. Another thing to take into consideration is that bat for example flap their wings really fast compared to what dragons usually do in movies, and dragons usually have a really heavy body (not covered in feathers like birds for example). So yes dragons being huge need to have gigantic wings to even have a small chance to fly for a short distance.

@roset9835 4 года назад

@@TheMisternono94 Yea that makes sense but his wings are SOO big, even bigger would make him even more intimidating

@kaibutsusennin 4 года назад

@@roset9835 its not big enough

@phoebeong6963 4 года назад

Minute Earth: Charizard is a dragon Pokémon Fans: Wait,that’s illegal

@tonyfalcon55555 4 года назад

I agree

@wookeattan39 4 года назад

*throws in a Charizardite X*

@Nekusa 4 года назад

i read this joke so manytimes on almost every youtube video

@yuukovukovich9996 4 года назад

Galar officials: No, it actually is

@prosackmetheus5409 4 года назад

@@wookeattan39 Gen VI called, They want their Mega Stone back.

@Zodiarche Год назад

In games like the Monster Hunter Series, a dragon has always 6 limbs (4 legs, 2 wings) and wyvern are similar but with 4 limbs (2 legs, 2 wings). Did you researched dragons from these games aswell? Would be so interesting :D

@salvadortoscano2534 Год назад

And "dragons" are specifically *elder* dragons. They're all basically Godzilla-level threats, whereas wyverns are like oversized birds of prey that spit fire at you :D Plus use bif weapon to hit big monster. Fun times :P (Brought to you by a SwagAxe user)

@AngiraBlu 9 месяцев назад

What about the Flying Wyverns and the sort from the Monster Hunter games? That whole series has a lot of biology stuff in the mix. Plus, in regards to elemental breath attacks, like fire, I recommend checking out the trio of books written by the Van Helsings, The Dragon Hunter’s Handbook by Adelia, The Demon Hunter’s Handbook by Abelard, and The Vampire Hunter’s Handbook by Raphael. The former, of which, has more stuff on dragons than the middle book does, with its variety of monsters.

@44r0n-9 4 года назад

Now we know how Daenerys got north of the wall so fast. Drogon was flying at 470km/h.

@arocomisgamusclademork1603 4 года назад

Almost 1km per second?

@44r0n-9 4 года назад

@@arocomisgamusclademork1603 That would be 3600km/h

@itzflame5523 3 года назад

four legged dragons are just Lizards with wings Wyverns are just Dragons With no front legs

@tombombo1 3 года назад

YES

@corvus_da 3 года назад

The mythological origin of dragons are serpents, not lizards

@Logan_The_Mega_Dragon_Gojira 3 года назад

Fire Wolf Girl FWG Yup👍

@oneforthegun7178 3 года назад

Yes

@alunaitor6957 3 года назад

since im welsh it made me sad that the red dragon aka the welsh dragon can never be real :(

@happyhippoeaters4261 Год назад

You left out the most realistic dragon, Fatalis from the monster hunter franchise.

@salvadortoscano2534 Год назад

Oh, I have yet to fight him in Iceborne. I hear he's a big boi. SwagAxe gonna go brrrrrrrrrrr :P

@smc278 2 года назад

For science, dragons would have an enzyme that would breakdown water in to hydrogen and oxygen in their gut. Their stomach or a separate bladder would contain the hydrogen. Hydrogen being lighter than air and highly flammable would help them fly with smaller wings and breathe fire, but the more they used the hydrogen for fire, the harder it would be for them to sustain flight until the could recoup their hydrogen supply.

@Dodgerific 4 года назад

Minute Earth: Dragons don't exist Komodo Dragons: Exist

@jurassician3725 4 года назад

Yi and Ambopteryx: Exist

@dundee6402 4 года назад

Dodge Williams Bearded dragons: Am I joke to you

@movedchannels3725 4 года назад

@@jurassician3725 you just made my day, i knew yi existed but not ambopteryx

@NueUzrnem 4 года назад

Dragon fruit: am i a joke to you?

@movedchannels3725 4 года назад

@@NueUzrnem they're not reptiles. they're fruit

@solumlupus9018 3 года назад

Plottwist: Dragons have 6 limbs because they are insects.

@benjaminmiller3620 3 года назад

If you are counting wings as limbs, insects have 10.

@Cam2Cat 3 года назад

that would be the biggest plot twist I ever heard

@Oddity2994 3 года назад

Dragons have 7. Arms/front legs Wings Back legs Tail

@Jorji_FCS 3 года назад

@@Oddity2994 Tail is not a limb. Most mammals have tails

@Oddity2994 3 года назад

@@Jorji_FCS in art it acts like a limb

@tonynewton9972 Год назад

Great vid, made me subscribe... keep it up guys

@MacElMasMancoDeTodos 9 месяцев назад

Play some Minecraft and you'll see the Enderdragon doesn't fly, she levitates T-posing around the pillars doing the loudest noises your ears can stand

@s0Iare 3 года назад

In my defense of the dōv, in the elder scrolls lore it is said that it is impossible for the dragons to fly, so they use magic to fly

@ishashka 3 года назад

I'd say being a magical creature is a defining aspect of dragons almost as much as flying and fire breath, so this could apply to all the other examples.

@cadend6925 3 года назад

@@ishashka I'd say whereas a lot of dragons are depicted as magical, it's a little hazier than calling it a defining aspect of the creature itself. On one hand, dragons like Elliot can use magic, but others like Charizard or Toothless cannot perform and aren't really associated with magic at all. I think Solare's defense is justified, since the Elder Scrolls' dragons don't just use magic to fly, they have an entire magic system built around them and also use it to resurrect, slow time, call storms and meteor showers, etc.

@EmperorRahem 3 года назад

Gravity is definitely not the same on Nirn as it is on Earth. Gravity affects objects way too slowly. We'd have to study the effects of gravity and the square cube law on Nirn

@whatthefox7435 3 года назад

Is that mentioned in Skyrim or the Online? I think i've never heard or read that.

@EinhornBoy-qg9pm 3 года назад

@@ishashka In lord of the rings there are 3 kinds of dragons. One can't fly but breathes fire, the second can fly but cannot breathe fire and the last one (which smaug is part of) can fly and breathe fire. So I think it's pretty much up to the author to define what dragons are...

@ethantaylor8306 4 года назад

What? No Rathalos/Rathian? -4 limbs -A believable non-fire attack -A keel -A massive wingspan. That pretty well checks off all the boxes.

@thehiddenninja3428 4 года назад

Looks pretty plausible

@zerox8413 4 года назад

Yeah... I'm confused... Because Hungarian Horntail dragon exactly similar to Rathalos and Rathian but yet not mentioned 😅

@FENomadtrooper 4 года назад

All true, but that doesn't answer the real question: WHERE'S MY DRAGONATOR?

@Aereto 4 года назад

And on top of that, they do not just use their volatile fire breath (not a proper flamethrower like a Teostra, but a fireball that requires a special organ that holds hypergolic fluid that ignites in air contact), but Rathalos has venomous talons and the Rathian has venomous tail and body spikes.

@A.R.T.4 4 года назад

Capcom also takes real life biology into account when making monsters for monster hunter, so they did their research too

@WhiteSwan2011 5 месяцев назад

1:00 it’s possible the “wings” were a version of the fins. Wings and fins share surprisingly similar uses.

@tyrannosaurusrex4600 3 года назад

Forged in fire Doug Marcaida: this weapon will 1:46

@nelsonfabianriosdeantonio6211 4 года назад

Charizard: looks like a dragon, breathes fire like a dragon, has wings like a dragon, tail like a dragon, horns like a dragon, but it's not a dragon.

@arocomisgamusclademork1603 4 года назад

Simply it's not actual Dragon DNA.

@Sle3plessNights 4 года назад

Mate, they all look like dragons..

@javieralvarez2787 4 года назад

@@Sle3plessNights Yeah, but Charizard, without mega evolving, is not actually dragon type in Pokemon it's fire/flying type

@Daniel-me6wq 4 года назад

i mean giving a dragon type really early is overpowered

@haruhirogrimgar6047 4 года назад

People have referenced this and joked about it for 20 years. Please stop, it is not funny or new information.

@tadhgmcgrath1409 4 года назад

Your ignoring their is a prehistoric genus of fish that has 6 limbs

@AnimeShinigami13 4 года назад

yes but did it survive to evolve into other species is the question.

@darthrevan5976 4 года назад

Wow I knew about the beetle but 6 limbed fish! What are they called?

@elgatitodraven7501 4 года назад

but reptiles didn't evolve from them :p

@TheRedTigon 4 года назад

Tadhg McGrath what was that called?

@Xrelent 4 года назад

@@AnimeShinigami13 But we're talking about hypothetical evolution (of dragons)! Thus we can posit a hypothetical evolution from a 6-limbed fish.

@michazaborowski3610 2 года назад

0:02 I like the figure of Iris and her dragonite at the begining. Thank you :)

@sunnicivang1093 Год назад

My defense for 4 limbs and 2 wings are that the wings aren't limbs in the normal sense, but instead hugely evolved/mutated skeletal shoulder blades; call it "false limbs" just like a panda has a false thumb which is actually its wrist bone.

@SCP-4335MW Год назад

Didn't wings come from arms?

@flysoup3607 Год назад

@@SCP-4335MW Insect wings don't seem to have but every other wing has

@SCP-4335MW Год назад

@@flysoup3607 Yeah I was talking about the vertebrate's wings

@teawrecks1243 4 года назад

The best dragon of all is Alolan Exeggutor.

@wadeconroy3467 4 года назад

@Matheus Fernandes exeggutor in Alola is grass and dragon type

@thelastcube. 4 года назад

@Matheus Fernandes that is why he described it to you

@Albert_Herring 4 года назад

Ancalagon the Dark...

@kyohan8432 4 года назад

Wahahahhahhaha so funny And some might dont get it

@LuiDen 4 года назад

If anyone is/was wondering what it looked like, just imagine a palm tree but instead of coconuts, it's eggs with derpy faces.

@chromiakocosmos8888 4 года назад

MinuteEarth: All bony creatures have four limbs. Mutations: *_Laughs in evolution_*

@vincenttrigg4521 4 года назад

Dragons could technically evolve on another planet if they followed similar evolution but the first to evolve on land had 6 limbs.

@chromiakocosmos8888 4 года назад

@@vincenttrigg4521 I was talking about how cats and dogs (including us) can be born with more than one leg. In most cases it is natural chamarism, but in others it's a mutation of a gene due to bad breeding.

@fantasyhaven3900 4 года назад

Toothless is the best.

@chromiakocosmos8888 4 года назад

@@fantasyhaven3900 Definitely.

@alqaadi9858 4 года назад

I get the “keelesness”, and the wing length are realistic boundaries of science. But when did we let thoughts be bounded by “evolution theory”?

@Dausuul Год назад

There are quite a few fictional dragons that don't breathe fire, and thus trounce all other competitors in the first tier. Tolkien's cold-drakes, for example.

@Trevan2412 Год назад

I recall a documentary theorizing on how dragon could exist, and a very interesting thing they said was that they might have hydrogen pouches inside their bodies, like secondary lungs, which would serve both to maintain their weight to a minimum and as fuel to breathe fire. This also made for a very interesting mechanic, as a dragon can't just breathe fire indefinitely, especially if they plan on flying anytime soon!

@madmatt2024 3 года назад

The elephant or "dragon" in the room is that some of the dragons mentioned don't come from earth and therefore don't have to comply with most of those rules. Just figuring a planet with 1/2 or 1/4 of earth's gravity changes the game completely when it comes to flight.

@nargacugalover Год назад

@anooslord666 Год назад

or if the air in which the atmosphere of the planet is made of could factor in like if it was a mostly helium atmosphere it would make flight very difficult

@skrubknight884 Год назад

i also wonder that if the dragons with more realistic proportions were scaled down in size and weight they would be more viable for flight. like say, Horntail from HP, Smaug from Hobbit, Rathalos from Monster Hunter, etc, but like the size of a mid-size dog instead.

@xandertheupriser8600 Год назад

The most egregious example being the four limbs. Say that ddagons evolved from some other 6 limb bony creature ok that suddenly put a lot contenders for the rest of it but after that it mostly physics.

@Merilirem Год назад

@@xandertheupriser8600 Make them insects.

@b3rnardblack 4 года назад

I feel like the dragons from "Reign of Fire" have been sorely overlooked here they have four limbs, a keel, a larger wingspan to body ratio than the Hungarian horntail, and even an explanation for their fire breathing

@RagingBlast2Fan 4 года назад

Great movie!

@rainbowosprey1619 4 года назад

I second this

@Zaxares 4 года назад

The Reign of Fire dragons might have been inspired by the dragons from the 1982 animated film "The Flight of Dragons" (which in turn was based on a 1979 book of the same name). In that movie, the dragons actually have fairly small wings, but the real reason behind how they can fly despite their massive size is because the dragons actually generate a lot of internal hydrogen gas (obtained from their diet), which gives them buoyancy like a blimp or dirigible. Their wings are mostly used for steering and propulsion, not to generate lift. That same hydrogen gas is what gives them their fiery breath; the gas is breathed out and ignited via an organ in the roof of their mouths that generates an electrical charge. The downside? Using up that hydrogen gas to breathe fire also robs the dragons of their lift until their bodies can generate more, so the dragons in that movie tend to use their flame breath sparingly unless truly needed (which explains why dragons didn't just roam around the countryside burning everything down willy-nilly.)

@RagingBlast2Fan 4 года назад

@@Zaxares How did they come to exist? I remember in the movie that they were discovered while digging a mine or something. What is their origin story, or discovery to be more accurate.

@Zaxares 4 года назад

@@RagingBlast2Fan The Reign of Fire dragons were buried (hibernating? I forget) in a mine shaft, yeah. The Flight of Dragons dragons took a different path; it says that once, magic truly existed in the world, and magical beasts like dragons and fairies and werewolves were all real. But then over time, humans started to "disbelieve", putting their faith in science and logic and reason. If there was no "reason" why something could exist, it would fade out of existence/die out. As more and more people started to turn away from the irrationality of magic and towards the logic of science, eventually the last magicians of the world banded together and created an alternate reality for all of the magical creatures to exist in, withdrawing there, and that is why we never see any magic, miracles, or strange beasts in our world anymore. Only in dreams do the two worlds occasionally touch.

@nelleneulmer5385 Год назад

0:18 I know it’s been a long time since this video was posted but when it comes to the believability of dragons breathing fire, I always suspected that it was originally a metaphor for how some reptiles, like cobras, spit venom.

@joemama-ug8ec 8 месяцев назад

**"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible"**

@456MrPeople 4 года назад

Minute Earth, you’re forgetting one important factor: buoyancy. If dragons can breathe fire, they have to naturally produce a flammable gas in their stomachs. Let’s assume that gas is hydrogen because there do exist bacteria that produce hydrogen as a metabolic byproduct. That hydrogen would be lighter than air so the buoyant force produced by it could be enough to offset the velocity requirements for flight.

@Fanatic_Foremem 4 года назад

Saminul Haque yeah, disregarding the biggest factor of a dragon simply because there isn’t a real life example of it kindof defeats the purpose of looking into the plausibility of a fictional creatures existence. Obviously it hasn’t happened in nature, otherwise we’d be calling that creature a dragon, the whole point of the exercise is to figure out how that would work if it WAS real, and ruling out any example that’s absolutely impossible.

@deaansugee 4 года назад

I'm... Amazed so many people are missing something so painfully obvious. RUMINANTS. Ask any biochemist with a brain for fantasy and they'll tell you that if dragons were real they'd absolutely have to be ruminants. Now I'll leave you to figure out why that is so.

@olymolly3637 4 года назад

@@deaansugee But dragons aren't herbivores... technically...

@deaansugee 4 года назад

@@olymolly3637 An astute observation but we're going to have to make some compromises here... No other way around it. Omnivorous, at least.

@Fanatic_Foremem 4 года назад

This video got me to look up the old mockumentry. About if dragons were real. Think it’s called.... The Last Dragon: A fanasty made real It’s surprisingly on RU-vid for free, although the subtitles are about 5 seconds slow

@jademonass2954 4 года назад

"a 4 legged dragon is just an iguana" **sad drake noises**

@otyayo7338 4 года назад

Sad Glaurung noices 😜

@sunnyluna5042 4 года назад

Ikr

@hush6149 3 года назад

Sad Komodo Dragon noises

@Attaxalotl 3 года назад

Sad any kind of dragon noises. two legs + two wings = wyvern four legs + two wings =. actual dragon four legs + four wings = Ihavenohekin'idea

@marcovalencia146 3 года назад

@@Attaxalotl dravern or the wygon

@Jordan_offline_ 7 месяцев назад

Eastern depictions of dragons are pretty accurate, we already have boomslangs, so I can imagine the dragons we know of today just could've been massive long jumping snakes.

@Piedrahumo4447 Год назад

2:00 oh man that animation made me cry when i was younger, that is a good reference

@danabinghammclaughlin919 4 года назад

*the flightless dragons in the crowd are VERY offended.*

@Battleship009 4 года назад

Don't forget ones that don't have a breathe weapon.

@zedeighty 4 года назад

Yeah! Where are my wyrms at?

@jariusreece1931 4 года назад

You think they're offended? The water dragons weren't even mentioned! The Leviathan is furious!

@hcox5595 4 года назад

And the lindworms

@danabinghammclaughlin919 4 года назад

@@jariusreece1931 Oh wow, you're right! Poor dragons

@ydnaslounge3651 4 года назад

We all clicked on this to say “charizard isn’t a dragon” didn’t we

@oddgodd2560 4 года назад

Nope. It is a dragon. It isn't dragon type. But it is a dragon

@shodai2054 4 года назад

YdnasLounge *screams in mega x*

@LyfSukz 4 года назад

I really did lol

@tkamhara 4 года назад

yes

@kaus05 4 года назад

There is a lady in fire red that teaches special moves that says that charizard is a dragon i think it was fireblast but i dont remember

@wildguy4773 8 месяцев назад

In defense of dragons:we evolved in entirely different world and broke into earth

@crimsonraen 15 дней назад

This is a great video! :)

@arjeanriparip7969 3 года назад

Him: *includes Charizard as dragon* Pokemon: he is not a dragon type, just a fire type badass

@tribiliter 3 года назад

Fire and Flying

@ZWizard2.5 3 года назад

So true though 🤣

@unhodin 3 года назад

Doesnt have to be a dragon-type to still be considered a dragon. Lance, the dragon master champion himself says so in that new Pokemon mobile game.

@flaredemon9959 3 года назад

@@unhodin Finally someone said it A man of culture, I see !!!

@gracefulgiant8364 3 года назад

Yet altaria is a dragon

@WishedWash 4 года назад

Minute-Earth: Calls Charizard a dragon Every Pokémon fan: *IS THIS A JOKE TO YOU*

@amaledwards 4 года назад

Lol

@vincenttrigg4521 4 года назад

Charizard X

@vincenttrigg4521 4 года назад

Wait nvm they showed regular charizard

@ccggenius 4 года назад

I mean... it can learn Dragon Rage, Dragon Claw, etc. can't it? It's basically a bitch-ass dragon that gets it's ice vulnerability the hard way.

@WolforNuva 4 года назад

Except the dragon type isn't really what makes something dragon or not. There are plenty of Dragon type pokemon that aren't really dragons, the most obvious example being Alolan Exegutor. Charazard is a winged, flying, fire breathing, horned, lizard monster; that is a dragon in everything but the typing; which is more or less likely a relic from Gen 1, where they were much pickier about handing out the dragon type.

@TheDracoAnimator 2 года назад

Fire breathing theory: They have venom that ignites when exposed to oxygen, that's how they shoot fire at things, the shoot venom on fire, irl the fire would just go straight up

@thesaucylorax 2 года назад

What about adolescent Drogon/Viserion/Rhaegal? When they're as big as a horse? Or the in between? Would any of those be realistic if you ignore how big they grow? What about other dragons, like if you kept similar proportions how small would you have to make it so that it can realistically fly

@TortoiseBlaster 4 года назад

Dragonite: Fat Dragon Charizard: Technically not a Dragon Gyarados: Technically not a Dragon

@arocomisgamusclademork1603 4 года назад

Judgement for Design only?

@aaronolson6736 4 года назад

By design, they are all Dragons. 1 is Dragon-Type but that doesn't mean the others aren't dragons.

@TortoiseBlaster 4 года назад

@@aaronolson6736 it's a joke. And I said technically besides

@arocomisgamusclademork1603 4 года назад

@@aaronolson6736 Correct. Many Dragon type Pokémon aren't classified as Dragon species. Just much magical type of Pokémon.

@arocomisgamusclademork1603 4 года назад

@@TortoiseBlaster what joke? Many people spam comment Charizard isn't Dragon type Pokemon.

@ericvilas 4 года назад

The _pause_ after that pun. That was a solid 3 seconds of silence for it to sink in, even giving you time to roll your eyes. That was an _incredibly_ bold move and I love that you did that. Nice job.

@MilesToGo_ 4 года назад

Lol yeah they give us 3 seconds to question our lives

@JoseR1207 2 года назад

Nice Video ^^👏 How about an analysis of the biology of oriental dragons without magic? In my opinion, due to its short legs and elongated body, it must be an adaptation to live in water (such as rivers and the sea), which coincides with its symbolism.

@josephchandler8828 Год назад

Just once I would love to see someone include the pern dragons from Anne McCaffery's Dragon Riders of Pern in one of these lists. As I understand it they are pretty close to realistic

@cameronlapp9306 3 года назад

If you're interested in this, try to find "The Flight of Dragons" by Peter Dickinson. TLDR: hypothesises that dragons could use a hydrogen metabolism to fly like blimps, with small wings simply as controls. There's also a great movie from the 80's (same name) which talks through the basics.

@heatherheartless5532 Год назад

Petes Dragon would definitely be able to fly this way

@urmom7338 4 года назад

Although Toothless is at the bottom he’s still my favorite dragon

@imthecoolestcloud4362 3 года назад

Toothless is also my favourite characters 🐉

@playitcoolman7820 3 года назад

I loved toothless so much.

@nwblader6231 3 года назад

Julya Flyer and it is another world so it would have a different evolutionary tree

@shahidwilayat7934 3 года назад

How do enderdragon Got there?!!!!

@garthor 3 года назад

I feel like Toothless got chopped super early, simply because of the 6-limb thing... But also the 6-limb thing came super early in the analysis so they could chop a ton of actual dragons out of the rest of the analysis... Realistically I feel like the keel thing is more prohibitive than the 6-limb thing. >_>

@Voxen712 2 года назад

what about four legged dragons with wings that arent really limbs, like salamence for example? there are also some lizards irl that use extended ribs to glide, which also could be an option to fly and mega salamence may have big enough wings to fly?

@jacklazzaro9820 9 месяцев назад

2:32 I don’t know where to look for it, so can somebody tell me what exact equation(s) were used for this?

@TheTrueSpyroManRemixes 4 года назад

I love how the best dragon is technically a wyvern.

@arocomisgamusclademork1603 4 года назад

Lacking battle.

@Renagale 4 года назад

its not the best dragon is a wyvern for it to even have a chance of being the best dragon it has to be a wyvern the moment he said it cant have 6 limbs there is no longer a most realistic dragon.

@arocomisgamusclademork1603 4 года назад

@@Renagale what about Eragon? That show is live action movie. Second, is that why live action Filmmakers don't want 6 limbs dragon in the show instead 3d animation and 2d animation?

@arocomisgamusclademork1603 4 года назад

@Melkhiordarkblade expect lack.

@andrewhrusovsky9426 4 года назад

@Melkhiordarkblade Ok, BOOMER

@deemac3470 4 года назад

This guy: "Dragons dont exist" Gliding Lizard: "hold my flaps"

@NueUzrnem 4 года назад

Ya man i was just thinking of it. It is the nearest and real version of dragon.

@Purr999 4 года назад

Hi again kevin

@Purr999 4 года назад

I saw you in another reply

@NueUzrnem 4 года назад

@@Purr999 😀hi

@fawzanfawzi9993 4 года назад

Oh great. Another very original "Hold My Beer" comment.

@BluesnakeCreations.official 4 месяца назад

Adter watchig this video i was very interested in trying to design the best atomically correct dragon/wyvern and i think i nearly nailed it, the wings wound have been too big for the canvas i was using lol, it pretty much has the anatomy of a bird, bat and allosaurus i used for reference! :D

@thunderlink317 3 года назад

That was entertaining. Thank you!

@Rubyshc 4 года назад

Title: the best dragon Thumbnail: the most realistic dragon Me: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*

@thehiddenninja3428 4 года назад

Video: Most realistic What the title means is "the best representation"

@curseofgladstone4981 4 года назад

@@thehiddenninja3428 Of what a dragon would realisticlly be like and not even what it theoretically could be. (non 4 limbed but still large enough wing size. Don't know why they made that the first hurdle)

@thehiddenninja3428 4 года назад

@@curseofgladstone4981 Because these dragons exist on earth. And all vertebrates on land have 4 limbs. And dragons are vertebrates. The question is which dragon is most likely to have possibly evolved on earth. And I think the answer is mega-salamance: 4 limbs, 1 giant wing that is not a limb, so doesn't need a keel, that can be used for gliding, and lizards that glide in air are literally real. Salamance is literally a dragon that's literally just a big version of an animal that already exists.

@Laurensvm 4 года назад

Aren't the 2 legged 'dragons' actually called wyvern?

@loc4725 4 года назад

Yes, they are (usually) considered a different species, just like wingless dragons are called lizzards.

@RosheenQuynh 4 года назад

sea serpents -> wyrms -> flightless noodle dragons c:

@baneofbanes 4 года назад

laurens Wyverns are a type of dragon.

@133rd 4 года назад

@@loc4725 flightless dragons are called drakes.

@sonofjack6286 4 года назад

Wyverns don't breathe fire

@sansthedunker5685 Год назад

I totally understand that none of the dragon’s wings are big enough. However, they could’ve served a different purpose in life. Wings, although primary built for flight, don’t need to be just for flight. Penguins use theirs for swimming, some animals use them for display and communication. The possibilities are endless.

@mailstorminurbox Год назад

If dragons having 6 limbs was possible would work wnd was allowed stuff like the night fury would be pretty realistic, also the montrous nightmare from how to train your dragon might work, so will the skrill due to it having rediculously high flight speeds, also dragons have their special dragon scales which could protect them from such forces

@pierre-samuelroux9364 7 месяцев назад

The monstruous nightmare has only 4 limbs

@pierre-samuelroux9364 7 месяцев назад

Same with skrill

@mailstorminurbox 7 месяцев назад

@@pierre-samuelroux9364 that was supposed to be separate, i was complaining about the lack of them in the video

@pierre-samuelroux9364 7 месяцев назад

@@mailstorminurbox alr

@kirara2516 4 года назад

Toothless wins. He's like a horse, a kitten and a dog all wrapped into one.

@naceandrea686 4 года назад

whilst looking like an Axolotl

@PhoenixKnight777 4 года назад

Damn science, he wins no matter what!

@E3ECO 4 года назад

Except neither horses, kittens, nor dogs can fly or breath fire.

@gordonfreeman7320 4 года назад

kirara2516 Book version is superior lol

@kirara2516 4 года назад

@@gordonfreeman7320 but.... you cant ride the book version. He's cat-sized, right? I'll stick with the movie version, thanks

@Praisethesunson 4 года назад

Komodo Dragon: Am I a joke to you?

@MeelisMatt 3 года назад

or Bruce Lee

@b00tt3r_5 3 года назад

Yest you are

@suratmansuratman9146 3 года назад

Yes, because here in indonesia we just call them "komodo" instead of "komodo dragon"

@jaschabull2365 3 года назад

Bearded Dragon: *crying in corner*

@Nav203 2 года назад

The timberjack from the httyd franchise has a huge wing span that definitely can fly and I think it has a keel o wait it breath's fire

@Slaking_ 22 дня назад

I feel like you could do a version of this video using only dragons/wyverns from Monster Hunter. I wonder how Rathalos would stack up cuz his wingspan is massive

@bradknightable 4 года назад

"Don't want it to drag on" me not paying attention glares at my phone

@gwuhwhuh6248 4 года назад

why didn’t you look at monster hunter wyverns? They’re literally designed to be realistic

@Brendanvideos 4 года назад

Because dauntless Is a better game ;)

@slimjimoil93 4 года назад

@@Brendanvideos no

@blackbird7781 4 года назад

I was wondering why they didnt look at monster hunter

@John_Carbajal 4 года назад

Glad someone addressed this

@DiavoloGrenadine 4 года назад

@@Brendanvideos Said no one ever.

@dwscanh 15 дней назад

In defense of Eastern dragons: many of them don't fly, but they swim instead. Many have four limbs and no wings. They resemble dragon fish, snakes and lions. I'm pretty sure if they weren't eliminated from the get-go they would make a great candidate for the most realistic dragon.

@rateeightx 10 дней назад

I actually wrote a text one time, About a fictional Biologist theorising about the Origins of the 6-Limbed Dragons of Their World. They dismissed theories that they were Tetrapods, Because they gad 6 limbs and it seems unlikely a creature could've evolved 2 more, And theories that they were Insects (Or some other form of Arthropod), As they were quite simply too large to be supported by an Exoskeleton. Their primary theory was that Dragons are a Sister-Group to Tetrapods & Lungfish, Having maintained Dorsal Fins, Which eventually evolved into their Wings. Fire-Breathing seems far less likely to evolve, But it's not completely impossible; Some animals produce flammable gasses (Or perhaps more accurately, Have the gasses produced within them) such as Methane, It seems theoretically possible, If they could store that rather than releasing it immediately, And then ignite it somehow, They might be able to produce a fire-breathing effect, Although I suspect it would likely be more useful as a threat than as an actual attack, Unless they can somehow spew forth the gas at great velocities.

@corvus_da 3 года назад

1:34 "That's basically just a lizard." Glaurung: "Am I a joke to you?"

@user-bf2nb3tm8f 3 года назад

Glaurung= giant angry stinky hypno-komodo dragon

@user-bf2nb3tm8f 3 года назад

@philipp ii. Worm or wyrm is an archaic term for dragon. It doesn't normally refer to an earthworm.

@user-bf2nb3tm8f 3 года назад

I prefer wyrm to cut down on confusion

@Amanecer458 Год назад

Kirins

@rysloth79 4 года назад

The closest thing to a dragon is shooting boiling water to burn its prey *Laughs in scauldron*

@MAK3L_ 4 года назад

😂😂😂

@exabyte686 4 года назад

Through its butt

@AlexArthur94 Год назад

My thought for how dragons could more realistically evolve to spit fire is that an ancient ancestor developed some type of chemical spitting ability for defense and/or hunting, and eventually that chemical evolved in such a way that, when it was exposed to the air, it would ignite. Or, less likely, that it would spit two chemicals while exhaling which, once combined in the air, would ignite each other. Of course, any such method for fire breathing would probably result in a very limited capacity to breathe fire.

@jerryworshiper1587 6 месяцев назад

how do you calculate the wingspan/speed ratio for flight?

@zyibesixdouze4863 4 года назад

"4-limbed dragons" Just say wyvern it hurts

@loc4725 4 года назад

I'm guessing they didn't research this very well. Also no mention of the movie "Flight of Dragons", which covers the same topic.

@tochinomasuta4600 4 года назад

@@loc4725 Wyverns are completely different from Dragons, God the Two leg shit has to stop, I'm sick of everyone thinking just because it lacks 6 limbs its a Wyvern, its dumb

@xkilla911 4 года назад

@@tochinomasuta4600 Wyverns are dragons

@tochinomasuta4600 4 года назад

@@xkilla911 Wyverns are a class, they lack fire and have a stinger tail usually, they use venom instead

@j2dragon109 4 года назад

The whole wyvern mess is what really hurts.

@michaelwintermantel9127 3 года назад

I would love to know how weight was calculated. Ideally, a dragon would have adaptations to make itself lighter so that it can support its weight with non-clumsy wings. Examples of this might be hollow bones, reduction in fat storage, potentially a reduction in brain size, and (idk if this is possible) ways to reduce muscle weight without compromising much on strength. Just some ideas, mostly based on bird biology.

@FlyingHangman 9 месяцев назад

I remember watching a BBC pseudodocumentary years ago that suggested they had a sack of hydrogen in their chest/stomach to help them reduce their weight, and they could regurgitate their stomach to lighten themselves also. The trade-off was, if they used too much of their hydrogen to breathe fire, they couldn't get off the ground... which apparently medieval knights figured out and was the reason they were hunted to extinction. It was actually a really well done film, making it almost like Walking With Dinosaurs

@felixkadenbach500 3 года назад

Ive olce watched a documentary about if dragons couldve existed, and they came to the conclusion that fire breathing and flying despite their massive bodies could have been possible in nature with one simple trick. When food is processed, methane is formed, a gas that is lighter than air and easily flammable, we get rid of it by burping and farting cuz we dont need it, but dragons couldve saved it in a second lung where it can be spit out and ignited to breathe actual fire. I forgot how the ignition part works because I watched the documentary 7 years ago