Dragons Truth Myth and Legend Author:David Passes Just a few hundred years ago, sightings of dragons were quite common. Ordinary people saw them; so did kings, knights, archbishops, and monks. Scholars wrote about them. — It was only about 400 years ago, when scientists began the enormous task of identifying all the known animals, that anyone even began to doubt the existence of dragons. Toda... more »y most scientists say that dragons never existed. There is simply no proof. So what exactly were the dragons that people claimed to see?« less