#flying dragons

[evilhorse]

Wild and ferocious! Defend yourselves!

(Buck Rogers 2431 A.D. Sunday strip)

[tilbageidanmark]

“Mushroom Circle”

[podartists]

The Flying Dragon, Draco volans [Pl. 8]

[xx-nexus-xx]

HEIMES WEEK DAY 5+6

im literally so bad at doing daily challenges so I'm smashing dates together sorrryyyy

anyways i rly like these designs sm i put a smidge of their sacred animals weehee

[katiajewelbox]

My Picmix Portrait of the titular Guymelef Escaflowne from the anime series Vision of Escaflowne.

This exceptional Guymelef was built by the mysterious Ispano people using ancient technology from the Atlantean culture. The Escaflowne is considered a deity by Fanelians and can only be piloted by a person from Fanelia's royal family who has a nobel spirit. It can transform into a dragon like form and fly, and it appears to have a consciousness of its own. The Escaflowne and its pilot Van Fanel have a special bond, in which physical damage inflicted upon the Guymelef shows up as injuries on Van's body.

This portrait features an actual model of the Escaflowne instead of art from the anime series. The model is the “Good Smile Company The Vision of Escaflowne: Guymelef Escaflowne Moderoid Plastic Model Kit”

[lichdragon-fortissax]

in the cnt modern dragons, not the anciet ones, was more evidently mammals https://i.redd.it/ubzmk0ka37e81.png, is dificult to see and i cant confirm if in the final game or other dragons also had nipples if someone could verify.

The noise of confusion I just made at this, holy shit...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and claim that the perception of a nipple is merely something to do with that screenshot rather than defined dragon nips, because if they are then they'd be a taxonomical nightmare to categorize. I mean, taxonomy is already a fucking nightmare as-is, and we're talking about magical beings that were descended from creatures of immortal stone, but at the very least we can tentatively class the modern dragons as some form of endothermic reptile due to the feathers and scales they posess, which either indicates a relation to birds or some form of convergent evolution. Either way though, feathers are naught more than glorified scales, and the relatively featherless appearance of the ancient dragons can allow us to assume that they evolved as such to make them more efficient fliers, so we have some form of link to them being reptiles rather than mammals, who are kind of really fucking weird in the whole 'milk and tiddie' method of feeding their young

....granted, I AM talking about theoretical biology in a game where people are literally enslaved and mass-killed for having wings and tails and scales, so uh. Yeah I should probably shut up about that ksjdhfbg bUT STILL, I'm passionate about dragons and my major is focused around evolutionary genetics/behavior so I am Very Interested in Dragon Biology, Okay

I'll go run under some other dragons to try to see if they have nipples later, and if they do then you will DEFINITELY hear about it, believe me

[animalworld]

FIVE BANDED GLIDING LIZARD Draco quinquefasciatus

Draco is a genus of agamid lizards that are also known as flying lizards, flying dragons or gliding lizards. These lizards are capable of gliding flight; their ribs and their connecting membrane may be extended to create "wings" (patagia- similar to flying squirrels), the hindlimbs are flattened and wing-like in cross-section, and a flap on the neck (the gular flag) serves as a horizontal stabilizer (the flag is sometimes used in warning to others).

Draco are arboreal insectivores.

While not capable of powered flight they often obtain lift in the course of their gliding flights. Glides as long as 60 m (200 ft) have been recorded, over which the animal loses only 10 m (33 ft) in height, which is quite some distance, considering that these lizards are only around 20 cm (7.9 in) in total length (tail included).

They are found in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and are fairly common in forests, gardens, teak plantations and shrub jungle.

Below showing wings and gular flag. ©A.S.Kono Sulawesi Lined Gliding Lizard Draco spilonotus

[ladylilith333]

How did i never see this movie? Probably because that was during a challenging period of my life. I think it is definitely in my top 5 movies ever ever.