That's right. Dragons. And their Targaryen riders. So all in all, could dragons fly in real life? Maybe not on Earth. But in Westeros, with the help of some magic metal? The sky's the limit.
The dragons from Game of Thrones may be fictitious, but some of these real-life animals aren't so different. The closest were the pterosaurs, whose name literally translates to "winged lizard".
“It’s the closest thing we have to a real life dragon,” said Tim Richards of the University of Queensland. Richards and a team of researchers made the discovery while examining a fossil of the ...