Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-26057005-20160423015308/@comment-25238001-20160423211541

Eac101 wrote: MarkJira wrote: In the Jurassic Park universe, I suppose it could be possible. The fire breath would be the most difficult part to achieve, though.

In real life, it actually might be theoretically possible to create a dragon. Suppose you took a Horned Lizard as a base. Why? Because it can shoot blood from its eyes. This will come into play later.

Splicing the DNA of a Flying Fox (The world's biggest species of bat) with the Horned Lizard would give the Horned Lizard wings. Maybe the wings of a flying fox would be too big, so a smaller species of bat would be better.

Now we have a scaly lizard with leathery wings capable of flight. What's the last thing? Fire. Here's where the shooting-blood-from-its-eyes thing comes back into play. It wouldn't be too difficult to cause the glands that hold the blood that the lozard then shoots down from its eyes to its mouth. Each gland would need some sort of sac to hold blood. Put a different liquid in each sac. These two liquids must be highly flammable on contact with oxygen, because when they are shot out of the mouth and make contact with one another just outside of the wouth, a burst of flames would occur.

I'm certainly no expert in these sorts of things. If anybody is some sort of expert in the fields of biology, bioengineering, or genetic engineering, I'd appreciate it if you could fact-check my claims. Great idea! Thank you for suggesting something. I never knew about Horned Lizards being able to shoot blood from their eyes - awesome! Glad I could help!