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With renewed hope that there was some truth to the legends, I looked for new research. I found that some experts disagreed with popular arguments against dragons. They suggested that a dragon could have four stomachs like a cow. If it created stomach gases like birds, it might create enough to lift itself off the ground. This would give it the ability to fly. If it forced out air when diving toward the earth, it might release gases which could ignite into flame. When the animal died, the stomachs would release strong acids that would dissolve its dead body over time. Biologists backed up these ideas with sketches and models based on known animals. Not everyone agreed with these ideas, but many of the things we accept about dinosaurs and other extinct species started the same way.
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I doubt we will ever truly know whether dragons existed. There may always be two sides to the fiery debate. Some will say the stories come from active imaginations. Some will believe with all their hearts that the legendary creatures roamed our ancient world. I don't know for certain which side to believe, but the sound and fury of a night like this makes me smile. It rekindles my childhood dreams and keeps the exciting possibility alive.

Which sentence from paragraph 4 makes an explicit statement without offering any implicit suggestions?

With renewed hope that there was some truth to the legends, I looked for new research.
If it created stomach gases like birds, it might create enough to lift itself off the ground.
Biologists backed up these ideas with sketches and models based on known animals.
Not everyone agreed with these ideas, but many of the things we accept about dinosaurs and other extinct species s

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Biologists backed up these ideas with sketches and models based on known animals.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence from paragraph 4 which makes an explicit statement without offering any implicit suggestions is Biologists backed up these ideas with sketches and models based on known animals.

From the excerpt, the narrator is talking about how a dragon would have been like, how its stomach would have been like if it could actually fly and spit out fire.

The narrator is unsure of what to believe but he says that when the animal died, then its stomach could release strong acids which would dissolve its carcass over time and made the explicit statement that biologists have backed up the ideas based on known animals, even if not everybody agreed with their ideas.