In case you care about your dragons being vaguely plausible.

In case you care about your dragons being vaguely plausible.

Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh

The science of dragon fire. “No fantasy world is complete without a fire-breathing dragon. But if dragons were real, how might they get that fiery breath? Nature, it seems, has all the parts a dragon needs to set the world on fire. The creatures just require a few chemicals, some microbes — and maybe tips from a tiny desert fish.”

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/blog/technically-fiction/nature-shows-how-dragons-might-breathe-fire

Comments

  1. Michael “Draco” R Avatar

    I do!

    Whenever I see stupendously ginormous dragons, I sigh and just think of the ecosystem impact of something that large.

  2. Mike Reeves-McMillan Avatar

    Yes, one of the things I didn’t like about the Temeraire series was how the logistics (and physics) of enormous flying reptiles was completely handwaved for the sake of the plot.

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