Quote:Actually, there was a special aired on Animal Planet a while ago where they brought a bunch of scientists together to try to imagine how dragons could naturally evolve. See if you can find it on eMule or torrent - it was quite comprehensive.
I just had a suddden thought RE dragon biology - their closest purely mundane terrestrial relatives, despite their saurian appearance, is most likely the duck-billed platypus. Modern birds, after all, are offshoots of actual dinosaur lines according to my vaguely remembered science show archeology, and platypi are already egg-laying mammals with a feathery coating - and feathers could surely proceed to scales if they could proceed FROM scales. They're also carnivorous, eating small insects and critters filtered out of the mud. Yes, they lack fifth and sixth limbs, but there's the whole magic-influenced evolution thing, even if you don't buy into the dragons simply having been made that way by one or another form of divinity.
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