Had an enchanted sword for absorb health and fire damage. Took two swipes, his skin came off and he flew around. He kept fighting me as just a skeleton, until finally his health ran out. Is this something that has happened to others? It was kind of cool actually.

Side note, I absorbed his soul well before he died

Haha what?!

I think this a glitch but a cool one.Are you on PC?Do you have any mods?

I've never seen it before. I'm on 360, so no mods. Literally skin came off with 80% health left and fought a skeleton the rest of the way, it was so cool. Wish there were more skeleton dragons actually

I've heard of other people getting this glitch, but I haven't experienced it myself! It sounds pretty cool.

I've also heard of a glitch where dragons spawn as skeletons and then behave really strangely - crashing into the ground, sinking through the terrain, that sort of thing.

This is one glitch that people LIKE!

This and the perma-torch glitch which I think was put in on purpose but not made a mechanic for immerision reasons.

I have the crashing into the ground thing ALL THE TIME. Every time I sneaked up on a dragon and shot it before it awoke, it flew around once and dove STRAIGHT into the ground, slid underground for a few hundred feet, and just went 'ahh I'm done' and died. I no longer sneak on dragons.

Also I agree it's such a cool glitch ^^

Remember that backwards flying dragon glitch?

Ha! I hadn't seen it anywhere and just looked up a video. If I had that, I would never want it to be fixed for comedic purposes

Hm, it makes sense something like this might happen. The "Skin" of the dragon burns away after death, revealing the skeleton, making me believe the skeleton is ALWAYS present, and that the dragon moved, and the skin texture stayed behind.

there is a skeletal dragon in the game normally