Dragons (Reign of Fire)

The Dragons are the antagonists in the live action movie Reign of Fire and seek to dominate the world and kill off humanity. They are from the Mesozoic era, the time of the Dinosaurs.

The Dragons first appeared on Earth in prehistoric times in the Mesozoic and lived alongside Dinosaurs for a long time but they eventually killed them all by burning them in an event come to be known as the K-T extinction and then the Dragons went into hibernation. They were uncovered during a dig in New York and killed all the humans who had found them. One man, a boy at the time, survived the Dragon ambush and feared them. He held together some survivors and the Dragons managed to kill off humanity and rule Earth, hunting any human survivors. They get into a confrontation with the man and his survivors but ultimately the Dragon who killed his mother gets a bomb thrown in its mouth. The other Dragons presumably begin to dwindle afterwards; they are otherwise not heard or seen of in the following months; and humanity begins to come back.